Two-week-long Ride Your Bicycle to Work initiative to be held in Moscow

A national initiative, Ride Your Bicycle to Work, will take place on 19 May in 60 cities across Russia. In Moscow, it will be held for two weeks for the first time – from 15 May through 28 May – and wind up with a bicycle parade.

The event’s key objective is to show that bikes allow people to move freely around the city and keep physically fit and that they are also a perfect tool to improve the environment and the transport situation in the city.

Only on 19 May, participants will be offered souvenirs and refreshments at the specially organised energy stations. On this day, residents of Moscow and its immediate suburbs will be able to carry their bikes for free on commuter trains. The city-run Velobike bike share will allow registered users to take out a free bike for 60 minutes instead of the current 30 minutes, reduce the Sutki (24 Hours) hire charge from 150 roubles to 120 roubles and give away coupons with bonus points.    

On 19 May, social networks will kick off the competition My Choice: Riding a #Bike to Work. The winners will be given awards on 28 May, the day of the Moscow Bicycle Parade.

Each cyclist will be able to use discounts and bonuses which will be offered by the event partners and also take part in the competitions listed on the initiative’s website.  

Since 2015, the event has been held twice a year: on the second to last Friday in May and on 22 September. In 2016, over 100 Russian and foreign firms supported the initiative in Moscow, in which over 5,000 people took part. By tradition, cities launch a friendly competition: the winner is determined by the number of participants registered with the initiative’s website. In Moscow, the event has received support from the Department for Transport and Road Infrastructure Development.    

Energy stations will be set up at the following locations:

— Bolshaya Semyonovskaya Street (outside the exit of the Elektrozavodskaya metro station);

—71 Leningradsky Prospekt, Building “Г” (Sokol metro station);

— Vavilova Street (the public garden between No. 6 and No. 8);

— 2/1 Arbatskiye Vorota Square;

— 95 Butyrskaya Street (Dmitrovskaya metro station);

— Muzeon Park on Krymskaya Embankment (under the Krymsky Bridge);

— Trubnaya Square (close to the exit from the Trubnaya metro station);

—Belaya Ploshchad Business Centre, 5b Lesnaya Street  (Belorusskaya metro station);

— Presnenskaya Embankment, Moscow City Business Centre;

— Taganskaya Square;

— Mytnaya Street (close to the Danilovsky Farmers’ Market).