The final touches are being put on Open Streets Windsor 2019.
Project manager Michelle Staadegaard says riders will still make their way from Sandwich Town to Ford City, but new this year is a 'River Rest Hub' along Riverside Dr. W.
She says people have been asking for something along the riverfront.
"There's a little bit of a request from the community as well as some construction that was happening that was projected around the same time as Open Streets and it's also a great way for us to see a little bit of a revision of the route being our fifth time doing it and our fourth year hosting Open Streets."
Staadegaard says many of the same people return each year.
"People are looking at Open Streets now as almost like a family reunion and coming back. People participate in it every year. It's becoming a tradition. I know myself, I bring my family every year and they look forward to it. So it's a really great time to be able to discover Windsor, discover some new neighbourhoods that you may not have gone through."
She says there will be eight community hubs offering up free, family-friendly activities.
"Ford City, Walkerville, Wyandotte, downtown, healthy communities, a river rest, University and Sandwich. There will be some locations between the hubs that will be open space for people to really take the opportunity to look around, really look at that eight kilometres as a really big park."
An estimated 10,000 people take part in Open Streets each year — the 2019 edition of the event goes Sunday, September 22 from 10am to 2pm.
For more information on the eight kilometre route and what's going to be offered in each neighbourhood you can head to openstreetswindsor.ca.
— with files from AM800's Teresinha Medeiros