Bike the Drive 2010
Posted by Mary Beth Weissmueller | Posted in Reviews | Posted on 31-05-2010
Tags: Active Transportation Alliance, Bike the Drive, Biking, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, Lake Shore Drive
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People riding their bikes at Bike the Drive, picture from Flickr user quinn.anya.
Bike the Drive, an annual event that occurs in Chicago, took place today in Downtown Chicago.
Bike the Drive started at an early hour of 5 a.m. beginning at Columbus and Jackson, downtown. The event includes a maximum route length of 30 miles.
Twenty thousand people attended the event as cars were kicked off Lake Shore Drive and the participants were able to bike next to the lake to promote exercise and benefit the Active Transportation Alliance, a non-profit biking, walking, and transit advocacy organization.
Bike The Drive was launched by the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation in 2002 in order to raise funds for programs to expand the Chicago area’s bicycle transportation network and promote bicycling as a form of transportation. Chicago is already a very active community and thus the ride looks to extend the communities activeness and encourage others to become more active and rely less on their car as a mode of transportation.
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