Planning for October 24th. Three-Fifty Day

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