Click here to see more causeway construction photos! 

Community Groups Step Up Too!  Thank you RunVermont for your very generous $10,000 gift to help repair the Burlington Path.  Thanks also to Green Mountain Bike Club for your challenge grant last month.  It helped raise over $2,000!   

Haven't been out on your bike in a while? Love getting out whenever you can? Beginner or experienced, join one of our easy-going rides for women.  

Charlene will lead rides on two mornings in October.  We'll ride for an hour or so, then have a fix-a-flat workshop for anyone who'd like to stay and learn.  Questions about bikes, routes, gear, and repairs are welcome! No RSVP necessary, just come join us. Women only.

Sunday October 14 - 9am  Meet at Oakledge Park by the first pavilion.  We'll ride south on the bike path and cross over Shelburne Rd. to explore the S. Burlington Recreation Path, where we'll ride through the woods during peak foliage! The ride will end at Oakledge around 10:30 am.  Free car parking in the Oakledge lot. 

Saturday October 20 - 9am  Meet outside at Local Motion on Burlington's waterfront.  We'll ride the Burlington Bike Path out to the bike bridge over the Winooski River and back, and arrive at the Burlington Farmer's Market around 10:30 am. We can park our bikes for free in the Secure Bike Parking area and browse the market.  Free car parking in the Main Street Landing lot (yellow booth).

It'll be great if it's a sunny, crisp fall day, and we'll still ride if it's cold or cloudy. We'll cancel if it's raining.  If the weather's iffy and you want to confirm, call Charlene at 802-363-7439.

Contact Co-Chair John Bossange with any questions or suggestions!  

www.localmotion.org/halloween 

This fun 2-mile ride will be escorted by the police, so bring the whole family -- young and old alike!  Free. 

Vol  unteers needed to help with traffic and the post-ride party.  Email Jon to help. 

Invite your Facebook friends! 

Prizes for costumes so go big!  Poster by JDK.  

Some of the highlights:

• People are really excited about making it easier to walk and bike to school, and voted heavily for school-organized walking school buses and bike trains.
• Bikeable connections to surrounding communities were also popular, with particular interest in a path along the Route 15 corridor.  
• Most folks are largely happy with the sidewalk network as it is, but they want better options for getting across busy intersections.

 You can read the full report here.  Want to add your thoughts to the mix?  Email Jason Van Driesche at jason@localmotion.org.

The event is part of The Big Fix -- a campaign to repair the trail and relaunch expanded Bike Ferry service. 

Thank you to our sponsors: Main Street Landing, Shanty on the Shore, ECHO, CCTV, Lake Champlain Islands Chamber and Urban Rhino.   

Thank you to our presenters: Laz Scangus, Jim Jones, Bill Hauke, Peg Clark, Rick Sharp, Brian Costello, Joe McNeil and Michael Monte! 

Despite rainy conditions, students at 44 schools around Vermont participated in Walk to School Day on October 3, 2012.   

On Walk to School Day, Edmunds Elementary School children took a moment to set up safety-themed 'Bermashave' signs up along Main Street.  

Want to get your school involved?  Get started at: http://saferoutes.vermont.gov/  

Now that it's over, you may be wondering who won all the prizes???  We'll let everyone know at Local Motion's Annual Party on October 21st (details at top of newsletter).  

We'll announce:  

• The top bike rider in Vermont.  (Hint:  he lives in the Upper Valley and has a really cool name.)   
• The Vermont company that fielded the top team in the Challenge -- and even paid its employees to take the final day of the Challenge off from work if they spent the day on their bikes.  (Hint: they install solar energy systems.)  
• The lucky participants who will get one of the remaining $25 gift certificates donated by Earl's Cyclery.  (All kinds of cool gear can be had for $25!)

And you are of course on the edge of your seat about who is going to win the free bicycling vacation from Sojourn Bicycling and Active Vacations. (Who wouldn't want to bike between country inns and have someone else carry your stuff?)  Thank you Sojourn!!! 

Purchase a sticker, slap it on your helmet, and bring your  helmet into participating shops for amazing savings.   

44 shops around BTV are participating: City Market, Dobra Tea, Chubby Muffin, Skinny Pancake, Ben and Jerry's, and of course, our amazing outdoor shops: Skirack, Earl's, Outdoor Gear Exchange and Old Spokes Home!   

See the full list of participating businesses here. 

This fall, our Trailside Center is offering half-price Bike Benefits stickers ($2.50) for first 100 stickers sold.  Hurry up, we've already sold over 1/3 of these stickers!