The Winnipeg Football Club is calling on the city to make streets safer for cyclists.

The push comes after long-time Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan, 69 year old Dick Stevenson, was hit by a car and killed riding to a game.  Stevenson was one of nearly 1,000 cyclists who ride their bikes to Bombers games.

The Winnipeg Football Club says this could happen anywhere, anytime. "He was coming to a Bomber game, but this can happen any time in the city of Winnipeg," said CEO Wade Miller.

Miller says he’s a cyclist himself and he’s noticed a lack of proper cycling lanes in the city. Now, he wants the city to review its active transportation routes.

“There are times and certain parts where it gets tight when you're sharing the road with motorists in vehicles," he said.

“You want people to be safe," said Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz. "That's extremely a valuable component of active transportation, and the realities are, the safer it is, more people will use active transportation, such as bikes.”

But cyclists say they don’t feel safe. Gary Hopkins has been hit by vehicles more than once on the roads.

"I think they need to make more bike lanes, because they have lots around, but they need to make a lot more, because some of their bike lanes are even in the wrong spots."

Other cyclists, like Jett Isleifson, agree. He says there needs to be continuous bike routes that are easy to access, especially on main arteries like Pembina.

"That particular spot is not like that. It's for cars," he said.

Mark Cohoe, executive director of Bike Winnipeg, says that means sometimes cyclists will have to take up a full lane. "In those situations, I think motorists really have to recognize that the cyclist is a very vulnerable user out there and if they're taking the lane, they're taking it for their own safety."

Michael Jack from the city says there are regular discussions with the Winnipeg Football Club regarding active transportation and it will be offering a written reply to Wade Miller. "This was discussed last week. It’s a standing item on the agenda. The city has placed it on the agenda for discussion every time we meet. There wasn't any particular discussion about safety or danger last week. It’s simply there as a standing item."

The city says it can't make any direct changes to active transportation based on the death of 69-year old Dick Stevenson until the police have completed their investigation and more details are known.