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Bike To Work Week
Bike to Work Week runs from Sunday, May 11th to Friday, May 16th. If you’re not already biking to work, here is a great chance to give it a go. If you haven’t experienced urban biking in Milwaukee before, I suggest you take a look at the city-provided map indicating the good streets to ride on. There are a lot of great activities planned. You’ll be able to find me on my bike downtown everyday as usual, and I’m also planning to attend the Bike-In Movie on Friday night. Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin is coordinating everything, and would greatly appreciate it if you registered and took their 30 second survey so they can improve biking in Wisconsin. Sunday, May 11th 2:00 pm, Mother’s Day Bike Ride Along the Lake Join the Pedal Pusher Society for a Mother’s Day bike ride along the lakefront. Location: Alterra by the Lake Requirement: Bring a Mom Monday, May 12th 7:00 – 9:00 am, Daily free coffee, bakery and bicycle commuting information will be available for bike commuters. Alterra Foundry, 170 S. 1st Street Sigma Environmental Group, 1300 W. Canal Street, on the Hank Aaron State Trail Urban Ecology Center, 1500 E. Park Place, on the Oak Leah Trail 8:30 am, Bike to Work with Mayor Barrett Location: 51st and Washington Blvd. 9:00 am, Press Conference, followed by Bicycle Tour of Milwaukee’s new and planned bicycle and pedestrian facilities. Location: 841 N. Broadway Tuesday, May 13th 7:00 – 9:00 am, Daily free coffee, bakery and bicycle commuting information will be available for bike commuters. Alterra Foundry, 170 S. 1st Street Sigma Environmental Group, 1300 W. Canal Street, on the Hank Aaron State Trail Urban Ecology Center, 1500 E. Park Place, on the Oak Leaf Trail 6:00 – 10:00 pm, Bike Trivia Night. Awesome prizes and sweet drink specials for only $5.00 Location: Stonefly Brewing, 735 E. Center St. Wednesday, May 14th 7:00 – 9:00 am, Daily free coffee, bakery and bicycle commuting information will be available for bike commuters. Alterra Foundry, 170 S. 1st Street Sigma Environmental Group, 1300 W. Canal Street, on the Hank Aaron State Trail Urban Ecology Center, 1500 E. Park Place, on the Oak Leah Trail 5:30 pm, Bike to the Brewers Game! Location: Meet up at either 6th and Canal Street or The Outpost, 7000 W. State Street. Auto parking for Canal Street meet-up located at Sigma Environmental Group, 1300 W. Canal St Thursday, May 15th 7:00 – 9:00 am, Daily free coffee, bakery and bicycle commuting information will be available for bike commuters. Alterra Foundry, 170 S. 1st Street Sigma Environmental Group, 1300 W. Canal Street, on the Hank Aaron State Trail Urban Ecology Center, 1500 E. Park Place, on the Oak Leah Trail Bike to School Day! – Roughly one-third of all traffic congestion is related to dropping kids off at school! Friday, May 16th 7:00 – 9:00 am, Daily free coffee, bakery and bicycle commuting information will be available for bike commuters. Alterra Foundry, 170 S. 1st […]
May 8th, 2008 by Jeramey Jannene
Metropolitan Areas Ranked for Walkability
Marsupial Bridge Originally uploaded by compujeramey The Brookings Institution recently ranked America’s most walkable big cities. Milwaukee didn’t crack the top 25 unfortunately, but consider this… However, the Brookings report itself has some major flaws. I know I’m going to sound like a major hater here, but somehow out of 30 metropolitan regions nationwide, the Miami-Ft Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro ranked 8th place – above metros like New York and Philadelphia! For anyone who knows anything about cities and metropolitan regions, this should immediately raise a red flag. So how is such a ranking possible, you ask? It comes down to Brookings’ flawed methodology for calculating walkable areas in each metro. Instead of calculating the percentage of area that is walkable in each metropolitan region, the Institution instead chose to go by arbitrary districts or neighborhoods, which vary considerably in size and functionality. For example, both Center City, Philadelphia and Coconut Grove, Miami were chosen as walkable locales within their respective metros. However, despite Center City being much, much larger than Coconut Grove, the two areas count the same…. Read more from Transit Miami Milwaukee, while far from the ranks of Chicago and New York in terms of walkability, has made significant strides in the past few year. Things like the Marsupial Bridge, Oak Leaf Trail, and Riverwalk are significant and growing assets that signal the emergence of a pedestrian culture in urban Milwaukee. It’s hard to find developments today in Milwaukee that aren’t pedestrian friendly. Developments like The Residences on Water, The Catalyst, and Edison Green will all replace parking lots or underused gravel lots with intelligently-designed, sustainable towers that only will increase the pedestrian-centric transformation underway in Milwaukee. Plus, it’s hard to ignore a city that has willingly removed an urban freeway to replace it with pedestrian-minded buildings. So yeah, Milwaukee isn’t on a flawed list today, but the community at-large is working to set the standard for tomorrow.
Dec 9th, 2007 by Jeramey Jannene
