We kicked off our Bicycle Fun Club ride season with Spring Chicken this past Sunday, April 13th.
The weather was warm early on, but the wind made this flat ride more difficult for our 152 riders.
The wind was so strong that plates of bbq chicken flew right out of our hands!
National Bike to Work Day is Friday, May 16, 2014.
If you would like to host your own National Bike to Work Day refueling station to represent your organization and be included in Trailnet’s marketing efforts, please fill out the online form by April 22, 2014.
In return for your station being marketed by Trailnet, you must display educational bike materials. Please arrange a time to pick these up from Trailnet (M-F: 9am-5pm, 411 N. 10th Street, Suite 202, St. Louis, MO 63101) prior to Bike to Work Day (May 16). Please arrange this time with Meredith@trailnet.org.
A Franklin County legislator introduced an amendment on Thursday, April 3 to remove bicycles from potential transportation funding. All other modes of transportation are included: state highways, city streets, county roads, aviation, mass transportation, transportation for elderly and handicapped persons, railroads, ports, waterborne commerce, intermodal connections, and pedestrian improvements. Every community submits their own priorities for funding, choosing what is important to them. This amendment takes away the freedom for each community to decide their transportation future.
A bicycle ban (HB 2279) has also been proposed on certain state highways – popular routes for many riders.The bill is due for a vote on Monday or Tuesday, so we need you to act now! Email and call your State Representative with this simple message:
“I support including bicycling in HJR 68, the transportation funding bill, and I urge you to vote against Rep. Paul Curtman’s amendment to remove bicycling from the bill (Amendment 5302H02.01F). I also urge you to oppose Rep. Korman’s HB 2279 to ban bicycles from certain state highways.”
Look up your State Representative and their contact information. Be sure to contact your House Representative, not Senator this time.
Help us spread the word! Please forward this alert via email, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Use hashtag #SupportBikeMO
Contact Rhonda@trailnet.org with questions. Thank you.
For the past several years, Mayor Francis Slay has presented Trailnet with an official proclamation on Bike to Work Day. Here he is with Ann Mack, Trailnet CEO, making his presentation in front of the Downtown BIcycle Station on Bike to Work Day 2013.
