Here’s what we know.
On October 24th, RIT is going to host the 350 Climate Action Festival, a series of events related to “the most important number on earth: 350“ (parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere).
One of the events will be a mass bike ride along the path of the future RochesterGreenway with bikers converging from downtown, U of R, MCC, and other places else, to arrive at the Sentinel at noon.
Another event will be a Rochester Bike Summit, in the Center for Student Innovation, at 2:00pm. The goal:
- to discuss a number of emerging and potential regional initiatives that could make Rochester New York a world center of Biking and Transportation innovation,
- the Rochester Greenway (of course)
- the prospect that we might develop a fleet of ultralight electric vehicles to ride (along with bikes) on the Greenway
- the proposed annual 6-day Tour de New York
- the City’s development of a Master Bicycling Plan
- plans for proposed and under-construction bike paths
- the possibility that the world’s leading museum of bicycle history might be brought to Rochester (or, alternatively, be lost to Western New York)
- the development of an online interactive bicycle map
- bringing the Bicycle Film Festival to Rochester
- to identify and discuss shared interests and opportunities that overlap these various initiatives and their supporters
- making biking safer
- interconnecting the region’s extraordinary network of biking trails
- making Rochester a world capital of biking and sustainable transportation innovation
How you can help. Email Jon.Schull @ RIT.edu
- Let us know if you are willing to help plan and organize.
- Let us know if you are planning to ride.
- Get others to do the same