Bike to Work Day This Thursday Palo Alto!

Residents will take to the streets by bike Thursday in the annual Bike to Work day, with a number of events planned throughout the Bay Area.

In Palo Alto, the city will host four energizer station along popular bike corridors like:

• Alma Bike Bridge (near Alma Street and Palo Alto Avenue)
• City Hall (Bryant Street and Hamilton Avenue)
• California Avenue Caltrain Station
• Wilkie Way Bike Bridge (between Wilkie Way and Miller Avenue)

The City of Palo Alto encourages bicyclist to take a look at their new bike lanes along Park Boulevard and on Channing Avenue.

If you can't make it to Thursday's Bike to Work events, Patagonia on Alma Street is hosting a Bike to Work Month. They encourage Palo Altans to "stop by the store every Friday in May for some B2W fun! Bike blender smoothies, giveaways, bicycle tune-ups and more!"

In San Francisco, the San Francisco Bike Coalition will have a theme of "Bikes Count," coalition spokeswoman Kristin Smith said. The counter, which has been installed on Market Street between Ninth and Tenth streets, aims to encourage commuters and others to ride bicycles by keeping track of ridership and displaying the number of riders who pass by.
           
Smith said the coalition also has several planned community convoy bike rides throughout the city.

There will also be a commuter convoy with about 500 people that will leave around 6:30 a.m. from the 24th Street BART station and finish at Google in Mountain View, Smith said.
           
In the South Bay, employees at the company Lockheed Martin, a global security, aerospace and information technology company, will celebrate Bike to Work Day by riding from the Santa Clara Convention Center to the Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, company spokeswoman Dana Carroll said.
           
More information on Bay Area Bike to Work Day events can be found on the website http://www.youcanbikethere.com/.

Bay City News contributed to this report.

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