UFV’s popular Trishaw Rides program gets new wheels

With an expected lifespan of more than a decade, the trishaw will support thousands of rides over its lifetime.

UFV Trishaw Rides is part of the global Cycling Without Age movement, a non-profit initiative founded in Denmark in 2012 that now operates in more than 50 countries.

The program is based at the UFV Canada Education Park (CEP) campus in Chilliwack, with direct access to the Vedder River Rotary Trail.

In a news release, Shelley Canning, a professor of nursing and director of UFV’s Centre for Education and Research on Aging, says seniors often become less visible as limited mobility makes it more difficult to leave home.

“For some of them, it’s this idea of being important again, and having people truly see them and see them in a way that’s quite positive,” she said.

Certainly passengers Marilyn Hornell and Dianna Stubling appreciate being able to get out.

“We just love it,” says Marilyn. “We love to put smiles on people’s faces, and we enjoy it probably way more than they do, because we’re getting a free ride.”

Diana agrees. “Why not get out there and have an hour or two in the sunshine, seeing people, the water and the trees?”

For more information you can go to the program’s website and read more here.

(Image Credit: UFV Trishaw Rides)

by Lisa Grant

UFV’s popular Trishaw Rides program gets new wheels

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