URBAN TRANSPORTATION – Bike Valet service gears up for a second year
(Image: Mel Rothenburger file photo)
In partnership with Tourism Kamloops, the City’s Kamloops Bike Valet has entered its second year in operation with program improvements, including a second location.
The Kamloops Bike Valet is like a coat check, where bikes are dropped off, owners receive a claim ticket, and personnel watch over the parked bikes until owners return to claim them. Building on the 2024 pilot program, which parked more than 2,000 bikes, the 2025 Bike Valet will operate free of charge in the following two locations:
Sandman Centre (West Plaza, 300 Lorne Street)
May 7–August 31, 2025
Monday–Saturday 8:00 am–8:00 pm
Sundays 12:00 pm–7:00 pm
Kamloops Farmers’ Market (200 Block of St. Paul Street)
May 10–October 25, 2025
Saturdays 8:30 am–12:30 pm
The Tourism Kamloops Roam Ambassadors will work in collaboration with the Bike Valet team at the Sandman Centre location to engage with both visitors and residents. The Roam Ambassadors team will provide activity recommendations, share local insights, offer casual games, and sell Kamloops-branded merchandise.
“We have long envisioned a dedicated presence in Riverside Park, and we are incredibly excited to see this initiative come to fruition this summer,” said Lisa White, director of community development and engagement with Tourism Kamloops.
“The objective for the bike valet service is to provide a consistent, convenient, and reliable service that can be measured for its impact on fostering mode shifts from driving to cycling,” said Glen Cheetham, the City’s climate and sustainability manager.
Other goals of the program include “reducing car dependency, promoting community health, lowering pollution and congestion, offsetting parking pressures, and enhancing equity.”
There’s more about the initiative at Kamloops.ca/BikeValet.
ArmchairMayor.ca 
A “bike valet” does very very little to entice me to ride around town on a bicycle. Mostly because it does nothing to enhance bicycle safety. The City of Kamloops was told long ago to stop building fancy bike lanes where no one goes and focus on simple and economical designs for twice the distance (or more) to and from places that need it the most.
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