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car free challenge

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This week is Bike Week/Car Free Challenge in KC, and I just realized I’m an idiot. I should have posted about this last week and asked if people wanted to do a bloggers team for this. I know how much XO would like that, considering his love of cyclists : )

You can sign up and bike, walk, bus, or even carpool to work and errands, and then log your time. There are also tons of bike events scheduled this week. Tonight is a happy hour at McCoys, and the movie Triplets of Belleville playing at the Downtown Library. Mayor Funkhouser is speaking tomorrow about plans to make KCMO a more bike-friendly town, even if Tony would rather see bikes banned from the streets.

Anyway, sign up if you can, and let me know if you do. I’ll bring prizes to the next meetup for those who play.

Posted by michelle on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 12:26 pm.

4 Responses to “car free challenge”

I thought you weren’t linking to TKC anymore?

Left by Keith Sader on May 13th, 2008

I’m trying to take the bus to work this week so I won’t accidently mow one of them down in my rage filled quest to get to work where I sit for 8 hours waiting to make the rage filled race to get back home.

So, yeah. The bus.

Left by Xavier Onassis on May 13th, 2008

The lifespan of a cyclist on a Texas road is about 5 seconds.

Left by Ole Blue on May 13th, 2008

The bus is a good alternative in these pricey gas days, but I still cannot see a bicycle as an alternative to a car. Bikes are recreational equipment to me, possibly fitness equipment, but not reliable transportation. Maybe my view is that I have never lived close enough to a job to make a bicycle even an outside choice.

On the other hand I find the fact that bicyclists, and to a lessor extent motorcyclists, getting mowed down so often to be deplorable. I put the blame on a self absorbed impatient citizenry, and I don’t know that bike lanes or any other solution is going to make the ride safer. Still I am all for any improvement that can be made in the awareness of the average driver. Back home, in a rural area, we coexisted with horses on the roads. It was a fact of life, just like bicyclists in the city.

Left by Nuke on May 14th, 2008

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