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Take the Car-Free Challenge

May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

For one week, how many solo car trips can you replace with walking, bicycling, carpooling, or riding the bus?

That is the Car-Free Challenge that Bike Week organizers are putting to the entire metro area May 10-16.  Individuals and teams of co-workers and friends compete to see how many miles and how many trips they can go car-free. If you have one of those hellish suburban commutes where the car is your only option, then just think about trips to the store, library, or dinner that you could make car-free in your own neighborhood.

Some of the other Bike Week events include classes on bicycle commuting, group rides, mountain bike riding, and intro to the hipster fixed-gear scene. If you are first timer, on Monday you can join a convoy of experienced bike commuters riding to work.

Categories: Transportation


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  1. Tim on May 11, 2008 10:54 pm

    People had better get used to it. $125/barrel is an appetizer. $200/barrel is not far off. We are in big trouble because we’ve wasted so many resources. Peak Oil has arrived, and I’m afraid that the only way is up. Everything is about to get a lot more expensive. Future oil production is estimated to plummet 50% by 2020. Natural gas is running out, too. The McMansions are gonna get more expensive to heat and cool with each passing year. I’ve been telling everyone on this blog what was coming. Some others saw it coming too; others were oblivious. Now it’s here. We wasted, wasted, wasted. Now we have to pay the piper. The energy is getting scarcer, and at a time when most of the world is demanding more of it than ever. We did it to ourselves, or at least as a society allowed it to happen. If only we would have seen it as the gift that it was and treated it as such, we would not be running out. Such a tragedy that we built our cities out instead of UP. In about 12 years, all those highways will only be used by trucks carrying the few expensive goods we can still afford.

  2. locomotivebreath1901 on May 14, 2008 6:48 pm

    I love to ride my bicycle. I encourage others to do the same, but be safe & be courteous. Don’t be a traffic stat or an violent turd like those criminalmass @ssw1pes.

    As a matter of fact, I have a dream! In my dream, the legitimate, utilitarian bicyclists responsibly use the carpool lanes & bike lanes. Traffic jams decrease. Personal health and outdoor activity increases. City smog decreases.

    I have a dream! In my dream, the infantile, hostile criminalmass gangs regularly get whacked & sprawled helpless on the road by handy dandy baseball bats extended from every new SUV sold this year.

    Factory rebate, too. I have a dream. *sigh.

    Be careful out there!

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