Our Position Statement
ACE: Advancing Cycling for Everyone (ACE) is a Burnaby-based registered society advocating for cycling infrastructure, policies, and programmes that make cycling accessible for people of all ages and abilities (AAA).
We believe that cycling should be a safe, comfortable, and convenient mode of travel regardless of one's gender, age, or physical ability. We advance Cycling for Everyone by advocating for the development of a cohesive network of direct, safe, and comfortable cycling routes across Burnaby.
Ensuring that everyone in Burnaby has easy access to a high-quality cycling network is critical to our work. Cycling facilities that support Cycling for Everyone include local street bikeways on traffic calmed neighbourhood streets, physically protected cycle tracks on major roads, and bike-only paths away from roads. Supportive end-of-trip infrastructure like secure cycle parking is also part of our scope to make cycling a practical mode of transportation for most people.
To complement infrastructure improvements, we advance cycle-friendly transportation policies that help reduce travel delays and ensure people cycling are treated as legitimate and respected road users.
Cycling-related programming that encourages underrepresented segments of our society to cycle, including women, children, and older adults, rounds out our approaches.
We want to help create a Burnaby that allows people young and old, of any gender, and of most physical abilities to cycle to work, home, and play in an efficient, safe, and comfortable manner.
This is what Cycling for Everyone means to us.
SUMMER 2025 Above and below: some early, though dampish summer fun at the Girolina at Confederation Park in North Burnaby. ACE showed up to give a quick ABC (air, brakes and chains) on everyone's bikes before the race started!
Summer rides!
What do cyclists in want in cycle routes? Cyclists want:
Safe - routes that are easy to follow accompanied by signage.
Direct - cycle routes that take you from north to south and east to west easily and safely.
Comfortable - cycle routes should be well lit and have maps or signage.
Fun - and why not!
Cohesive - cycle routes should connect and not present gaps
Planning does not necessarily need to be complex nor does every street need to be bespoke. Worldwide we know what makes people safe and comfortable when travelling outside a car. Burnaby just needs to start focussing on this as quickly as possible.
Join us!
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