July 12
Club Presidents Council Meeting
July 15
Bike Town Bash at Goose Island Brewery
July 16
Friends of the Parks' L.A.T.E. Ride
Aug. 19
Bike to Beethoven
All these events and more, to be shore, on biketraffic.org's Calendar
of Events!
In ROLL Film! Borzo and Strauss review "The
Karate Kid"
June 2006
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Streets for People
Sunday Parkways is a fitness and recreational program. Importantly,
it is also a spirited community effort to return neighborhood streets
– for a few hours each week – to the purpose they served
thousands of years until the age of automobiles: as public spaces.
>> More
Importing a Sunday
Tradition
to Revitalize Streets
During a visit to speak at the 2003 International Symposium on Human
Transportation in Bogota, Columbia, Randy Neufeld was inspired by
something he hadn’t quite expected. >>
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What Will It Look Like In Three Years?
Flash forward to the future of Sunday Parkways with the proposed
route map. >> More
How Will It Work?
Using the Bogota Ciclovia and Guadalajara Via Recreativa as models,
Sunday Parkways will have minimal impact on traffic. >>
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A Latino Approach
to Building Support for Parkways
Unlike launching an expressway project, laying groundwork for an
event like Sunday Parkways requires winning the support and confidence
of all communities affected. >>
More
Meet the Chi-Town
Cruisers
Got a dusty old Schwinn, a blue or white T-shirt, and a free Sunday
afternoon? That’s all that’s required to ride with the
Chi-town Cruisers, a club of mostly-Latino cyclists based in Humboldt
Park. >> More
Enhancements Spending Down; Aggressive Driving
Up
Ald. Tom Allen of the 38th Ward is fed up with all the uncivilized
reckless driving he sees. >>
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is looking for more than a few good people to add to its ranks.
Check out our list of current volunteer opportunities at www.biketraffic.org/volunteer.php,
or contact Dan Korman at (312) 427-3325, ext. 224.
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