Statement Regarding COVID-19

Share the Road is monitoring updates with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO) and local health departments related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and potential impact on the 2020 Ontario Bike Summit. We are prepared to follow their recommendations on the appropriate health and safety measures moving forward.

Currently the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Toronto and our team throughout Ontario are all operating normally. We are working with the hotel to identify appropriate measures we can take at the meeting. These will include increased availability of hand-sanitizing stations, a campaign to promote touch-less interactions with colleagues, and more. We will post to this page our formal plan as it develops.

The Ontario Bike Summit is the premier cycling conference in Ontario. The summit provides a forum for cycling stakeholders to be inspired by best practices from across Ontario and beyond and to gain the practical skills necessary to act on that inspiration. Learn from and network with professionals and volunteers from a diverse range of sectors, including: provincial and municipal government, grassroots advocacy, health, planning, engineering, tourism and more.

Join us April 6th & 7th in Toronto for the 12th Annual Ontario Bike Summit at the Courtyard by Marriott, Downtown Toronto where our summit theme is Making Connections.

We will be providing 2 full days of programming in 2020. It will include:

• Connecting with 300+ delegates about cycling and road safety best practices;

• Engaging in discussions about network planning, e-mobility, transportation equity, how cycling fits into the climate emergency, and more;

• Exploring Toronto by bike and hear from local representatives about cycling in our provincial capital;

• Hearing from provincial decision makers about cycling priorities in Ontario;

• An update on Ontario Traffic Manual Book 18;

• Lunch and dinner on Monday, breakfast and lunch on Tuesday, snacks both days;

• The Ontario Bike Summit is going vegetarian in 2020! In an effort to reduce our carbon footprint, all of our menu options will be vegetarian or vegan;

• BIKEMINDS storytelling event on Sunday, April 5th;

• And more!

Stay tuned for an updated agenda.

We will be updating our website and draft agenda regularly leading up to the event. Click here to visit our summit website for those details and how to BOOK YOUR OBS20 HOTEL ACCOMMODATION at the Courtyard by Marriott, Downtown Hotel. The special group rate is $219 CAD single/double per night and it is available 3 days pre/post summit.

Our accommodation room block has been extended to March 20, 2020. We urge you to use our summit hotel, as it helps us offset costs in order to keep our registration fees down. Please book early!

Reserve by calling at 1-800-847-5075, and provide the code 'SKM' for the discounted group rate OR book online by clicking on the following web link or copying and pasting it into your web browser:
https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1563288220771&key=GRP&app=resvlink