Go by Bike Week has returned after a three-year COVID break, with 462 teams and 2,484 individual riders signed up by Monday. “It’s really great we’ve missed that,” said Capital Bike events manager Jordan Glowicki.
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“It has definitely been very quiet for us all weekend,” said B.C. Ferries’ Tessa Humphries. Even without the extra sailings that would normally be added to the major routes for the holiday, there was plenty of empty space on board. And no, Humphries hadn’t heard of any travellers being turned away for breaking essential-travel rules. B.C. authorities were worried about how we would behave this long weekend. They were afraid of the kind of rule-bending that led to COVID spiking after Christmas and Easter. “Whenever there’s been a long weekend, we’ve seen an increase in case counts,” Premier John Horgan said last week. That’s why the premier, Adrian Dix and Dr. Bonnie held off announcing the details of the province’s restart plan until today. They feared we would jump the gun.