Fox 9 - Bike Walk Week Party on the Greenway
Fox 9 News story by M.A. Rosko
MINNEAPOLIS – June 7-11 marked Bike Walk Week in the Twin Cities, and Thursday June 10th was Bike Walk to Work Day. M.A. Rosko was live at the Green Institute off the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis. It was one of several celebration locations around the Twin Cities.
The Green Institute and ALL the tenants in our building hosted the largest free breakfast for bikers and walkers last Thursday in the Twin Cities for BikeWalk to Work Day! Guests included Mayor R. T. Rybak, Councilmembers Schiff and Glidden, Commissioner McLaughlin, and Rep. Davnie, in addition to the co-creators of 30 Days of Biking! We also gave away spoke cards to commemorate our third annual event.
We had 403 people in attendance at our event and logged a cumulative 3580 miles, more than doubling last year’s total number of miles biked. One intrepid biker even commuted 52 miles! We even had a bakfiets, a Dutch cargo bike, which gave a local reporter a ride around the parking lot in its “basket”.
We served pancakes, sausage, eggs (40 dozen!), oatmeal, Birchwood pastries, granola bars, Peace Coffee (600 cups!!!) and juice. The Hub Bike Co-op did some small repairs at their free bike check clinic and handed out free patch kits, we also had a Metro Transit bus bike rack for folks to try out. The Bike Alliance of MN and the Midtown Greenway Coalition were also here. Additionally, thanks to Eureka Recycling and advanced planning, we produced only 1.25 lbs of trash—that’s less than a tenth of an ounce per person! By composting 82 pounds of material and recycling 12.3 pounds, 99% of all waste generated at the event was diverted from the trash!
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