A colorful flying circus of bicyclists will take to NYC streets to celebrate Earth Day and call for safer streets, cleaner air, and less reliance on the automobile.

Cyclists will ride en masse counter clockwise around Central Park's lower loop and then exit the park at E. 72nd Street. The goal of the cyclists is to draw attention to the environmental benefits of cycling and the destructiveness of the automobile.

"Bicyclists, walkers and transit riders keep this City livable. It is past time for the City to support them with safer, traffic calmed streets, and to stop bending over backwards to accommodate more driving. New Yorkers need a bike and pedestrian way on the Queensboro Bridge and a car-free Central Park, not more polluting cars" commented Transportation Alternatives' John Kaehny.

• About 80,000 cyclists travel NYC streets everyday. They create no air pollution, no noise pollution and kill no one.
• About 2 million automobiles travel NYC streets daily.
• They kill 250 pedestrians and injure another 14,000 every year in NYC alone.
• Autos also create half of the City's air pollution and enormous amounts of noise pollution.