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May 19, 2011 |
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Friday, May 20th is National Bike to Work Day. Let's ride! Images courtesy Andrew Hinderaker and Daniel S. Burnstein |
This Bike to Work Day, check in on Foursquare at T.A.'s seven commuter stations; follow T.A. on Twitter to boast about your #bikenyc commute; like T.A. on Facebook and share the invite to bike to work.
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T.A. in the News
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"Bike backers experienced some serious growing pains this winter, including the high-profile Prospect Park West lawsuit which took aim at the increasingly vocal pro-bike lobby. As temperatures rise and bikes multiply in the streets, handlebar-hangers hope to be their own best advertisement.
'The summer will showcase what most New Yorkers already know,' said Transportation Alternatives spokesman Michael Murphy. 'New York likes bikes.'
Indeed they do."
-- "It's Bike Month in Brooklyn" Greenpoint Star, 5/3.
Why to Bike to Work
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For you tired, huddled bicyclists: |
Last year, on National Bike to Work Day, more New Yorkers chose to support T.A. than any other day of the year. Perhaps it is the inestimable joy of commuting with hundreds of thousands of other bicyclists that brings T.A. members out in droves. Or perhaps, it is that tomorrow is the only day of the year when T.A. gives a special gift to renewing T.A. members and to those joining for the first time.
This year, every T.A. member who renews their support will receive a set of T.A.-branded bicycle lights, one white and one red, to keep you safe on all those summer nights. Plus, T.A. has free iced coffee and Clif Bars for everyone, everywhere you find us on National Bike to Work Day.
Where does your bike commute begin?
Brooklyn: Find T.A. in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Or, on the Manhattan side of the Manhattan Bridge.
Or, on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge.
Manhattan: Find T.A. on the West Side Greenway at 70th Street.
Queens: Find T.A. on the Queens side of the Queensboro Bridge.
Staten Island: Find T.A. on the Staten Island side of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.
SPREAD THE WORD
Bicycling is better with a buddy, so T.A. has built a handy tool to help you tell everyone you know they should ride this Friday. Propose a pedal with your lover. Convince your colleagues their commute could be fun. Tell all your friends. Spread the word before you bike to work.
Bicycling is better with a buddy, so T.A. has built a handy tool to help you tell everyone you know they should ride this Friday. Propose a pedal with your lover. Convince your colleagues their commute could be fun. Tell all your friends. Spread the word before you bike to work.
In case of rain, National Bike to Work Day is cancelled. Unsure what inclement looks like? Check in with T.A. Friday morning at transalt.org.
New Yorkers for Bicycling
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New Yorker for bikes, hands up! |
According to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, a majority of New Yorkers support a bicycle-friendly New York because of the benefits bicycling provides. Bicycles make our neighborhoods safer, saner and simply more amenable places to live. By shrinking crash rates and calming traffic, bicycling breeds a bubbling street life that is New York's greatest identifying marker.
This summer, for the first time ever, T.A. will be rallying the diversity of New York -- cyclists, pedestrians, car owners; children, students, commuters, seniors -- to build a bridge between bicycling and a safer, saner and more sociable New York. We're proud to announce T.A.'s new campaign: New Yorkers for Bicycling.
T.A. will be building bridges this summer and hosting conversations about how well New York and bicycling go together:
From Bicyclist to Bicyclist
T.A. will foster peer-to-peer education about how to bike polite.
From Bicyclist to Businesses
T.A. will connect businesses to bicycling customers and owners to safe cycling education for their employees.
From Every New Yorker to a Better New York
T.A. will educate everyone about how simple bike-friendly infrastructure has the power to make reduce crashes and increase safety.
No matter our chosen mode of travel or our role in this great tumbling metropolis, all New Yorkers can take part in ushering in a safer, saner, more sociable New York City. The power of bicycling to calm traffic and encourage a vibrant street life is a message we can all spread. Because bikes are good for New York, New Yorkers are for bikes. Are you one? Declare it now.
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