STORIES & NEWS
Free downtown bike parking returns to Victoria - March 17 - April 30
Our free downtown bike parking service Bicycle Valet is now open. It is a convenient and secure parking option for people riding and rolling. operating seven days a week until December 23 with expanded operating hours during summer months, including on Friday and Saturday nights.
Sakura Walk 2023 - Come out with us and enjoy the spring colours!
Come join us outside for an approximately 1 hour guided walk where you will get to network with other participants and chat about how walking makes you feel connected or anything else. If we are lucky the cherry blossoms will have arrived or we will have to settle with enjoying the spring colors.
WALK30 is back!
The annual WALK30 is back! This competition is getting more exciting year after year. In an oath of a community effort, BEST is coordinating with partners from four different municipalities and two Health Authorities in a five-week campaign. The goal is for participants to walk every day for 5 weeks and track their progress, to see which municipality can walk the most total minutes and win awesome prizes from local businesses too!
Walking and health: Why designing streets for walkability is beneficial for public health
We believe that walking is much more than its movement and utilitarian purposes; it is a means to socialize with others and feel belonging in your community, equitably access key destinations, contribute to sustainability outcomes, and improve physical and mental health.
New Year, More Walking!
We here at Living Streets are thrilled to have a fresh calendar year of fun walking events and opportunities to explore our communities at your own pace.
Safe Driving for Seniors on the Roads
With age comes new limitations, which can be both physical and cognitive in nature. Physical and cognitive limitations can cause serious problems on the road, while environmental factors also have an impact on one's driving condition.
Living Streets are grateful for having many walkers this year and hopes to engage the community even more in 2023!
What a fantastic year of walking it has been! Living Streets had an eventful and successful 2022, and we are grateful to have engaged with so many walkers and promoted the benefits of walking.
Be part of BEST history and join the #GivingTuesday global movement
Be part of BEST history and join the #GivingTuesday global movement!
Gas prices are skyrocketing!
With gas prices expecting to break records, from BEST, we want to let you know that there are some options that you might try to help you through this.
Walk30 Week 1 Theme: Active Transportation
More and more people are choosing active transportation as an affordable, environmentally sustainable, and healthy way to get to their destinations without a car! So what is active transportation, anyway?