The tour is held on May 4, 2014 and covers 40 miles. This will be the 37th year for the annual event.
The transformation is pretty amazing when you think of the scale of the project.
Right of Way is a NYC-based activist collective “dedicated to asserting the rights of car-free street users — including pedestrians, cyclists, and skaters” and took it upon themselves to paint a DIY bike lane on the busy street last Saturday.
Thanks to his new custom built bike, Michael’s not only be able to experience a new found freedom of mobility and the joy of community with other cyclists — he’s also helping to show that some physical limitations are only as limiting as one’s willingness to overcome them.
Thanks to the Android-based software and Google maps, it lets you know things like what street you’re traveling on…
You don’t have to stand on Jay Street to watch bicyclists get into accidents.
By stripping bare for the ride, the cyclists aimed to highlight the fragility of riders, and the risks they face, on busy roads. B
The goal is to help cyclists who might be riding late at night or far from bike shops,
6,000 21-minute rides
Together, we cycled through intense cold, heat, dust storms, a snowstorm, and even encountered some rogue yaks.
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“Today, there are more than 330,000 miles (equal to more than 530,000 kilometers, or half a gigameter) of green biking lines in Google Maps.”
