16 May Nadia Barrera Talks About National Bike Month & Sara Deshong-Baker talks Austin’s Bike to Work Day on Shades of Green Energy
Time to pump it up … we’re talking about the tires on your bicycle! It’s National Bike Month and if you haven’t heard about it yet don’t worry because we are pumping up the volume on Shades of Green Energy Radio to talk about this week, May 16 – 20 being National Bike Week. Now if by Thursday you still haven’t heard about it … and still haven’t pumped up your wheels, tune into 91.7 FM where Shades of Green Energy Radio hosts will be interviewing two people in Austin who’ve made it their profession to inspire Austinites to ride their bikes. Nadia Barrera who is Project Coordinator of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Program at the City of Austin’s Public Works Departmentand Sara Deshong-Baker, Outreach Coordinator at Austin Cycling Association will both be joining us at 1 PM this Thursday. Barrera and Deshong-Baker will be telling us about all the things going on in Austin to encourage people to ride their bikes. They will be inspiring us all to pump up the wheels on our bikes and head out on the road to work to be part of National Bike to Work Day (B2W Day) that is coming up on Friday, May 20th.
Here are some facts about National Bike to Work Week and B2W Day 2100!
- There will be dozens of AM & PM commuting stations for participants to eat breakfast, enjoy refreshments and meet fellow cyclists
- Go to www.austincycling.org for the list of approximately 40 locations and businesses supporting B2W Day 2011 in Austin.
- There are now more bike lanes and routes to ride and more are being added each year.
- About 1.2 % of Austin presently ride bikes to work
- “One of our goals is to have 2 percent of the population riding a bicycle to work by the year 2012,” Barrera said. (Community Impact)
- B2W Day was started by the League of American Bicyclists
- The League of American Bicyclists is the national sponsor of Bike Month, Bike Week and B2W Day
- This year marks the 55th anniversary of Bike to Work Day
Join us on Shades of Green Energy Radio to hear about National Bike to Work Day, reasons that make riding your bike to work the smart thing to do, and all the ways people in Austin are being encouraged to pump it up and get riding on B2W Day 2011!
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