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Thank you Dealer.com for knowing that a walkable, bikable community is a better place to live, work and play.
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2013 Membership Drive Underway!
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Be represented. Join today for a chance to win a fitted, custom-painted $3,000 Budnitz Bicycleor a Burton Snowboard! 2013 Membership Goal: 1,200 Households Current Members: 900 |
Bike Recycle Designs @ BTV Farmers Mkt
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Belts from tires. Earrings from innertubes. Bracelets from spokes. Find unique wearable art and great gifts at our BTV Art Market booth -- next to the Farmer's Market.
Want to learn? You can make cool items from bike parts! Join us at Make Stuff Nights -- Wednesdays @ 6-9pm at Bike Recycle!
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Invitation for Bids
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We're seeking bids from contractors to construct our 2014 Bike Ferry improvements.Project Name: Causeway Bike Ferry South Hero STP EH08(17) Click here for details
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Event Bike Parking Ramps Up for Summer Festivals
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Trailside Center Open for Season
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Largest BikeShare in US Launches in NYC
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Preservation Burl. Wants People to Pedal on Home Tour
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Saturday's Homes Tour will be the first where bike parking will be provided at every stop along the tour. Pedal on over...regardless of the weather!
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Help Build the Long Trail Bridge
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Our good friends at the Green Mountain Club are raising funds to build a footbridge over the Winooski River. Please pitch in. Thanks!
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Bike Ferry Returns on June 14th!
It's true. After 545 people and businesses raised $1.5M for The Big Fix, the trail has been repaired from the record 2011 flooding and now we've finalized the Bike Ferry schedule after a two year hiatus. Like the Bike Ferry on Facebook for updates!
Summer Ferry Schedule: 10am to 6pm
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays
(June 14 - September 2)
Community Celebration: Join us for a short ceremony to thank everyone who helped bring the ferry back! Saturday, June 15th, 10:30am at the Colchester side of 'the cut'. More info here.
2013 Fares Set: The ferry doesn't run on love alone -- though we wish it did. It costs ~$100,000 to operate. Fares cover 40% of the cost of service. Thanks for your support. Adult Day Pass: $8 ($6 for members). Youth Day Pass $5 ($4 for members). 6 and under: Free! Season passes available June 14th. Want member prices? Join today! More fare info here.
Can you volunteer? We need 350 volunteers to  work as deckhands and greeters to make this service possible. Go to our Volunteer Spot sign-up to volunteer!
Thank you to VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations for being the ferry's lead sponsor for the past 5 years!
Thanks also to our many public partners including the Town of Colchester, Town of South Hero, City of Burlington, VTrans, VT Fish & Wildlife, NRPC, CCRPC, the LC Regional Chamber of Commerce.
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Bike Recycle VT Adds Evening Volunteer Opps!
In an effort to make Bike Recycle Vermont more accessible to our customers and volunteers, we are excited to announce our new extended summer shop hours! These hours will be in effect through September 31st. - Tuesdays 1-7pm
- Wednesdays 1-5pm
- Thursdays 1-7pm
- Fridays 1-5pm
Evening hours enables more people with daytime commitments to volunteer. How about you? Check out our volunteer page. Contact BRV manager Dan Hock with any questions dan@localmotion.org. |
Local Motion is hiring! We want YOU. Local Motion is hiring a full-time Complete Streets Project Manager! If you are passionate about making our streets work for everyone from 8 (or two!) to 80, this job is for you. We're looking for someone who knows how to make communities great places for walking and biking. From providing technical assistance on local transportation planning projects to leading the development of a regional bike network plan, this person will be out in front on a whole lot of exciting work. Download the full position description here. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis and the position is open until filled. |
Join in these free introductory rides offered by Local Motion and the Green Mountain Bike Club. Saturday, June 8: Shelburne, Charlotte & Lake Champlain Ferry We'll ride through Shelburne and Charlotte, then cross to NY with our bikes and have a snack in Essex, NY, return to Charlotte on the Ferry and ride back. 21 miles. Relaxed pace. Meet at 8:45 am. Leaders: Holly, Charlene & Meredith. Click here for more information. Saturday, June 22: Bike Clinic In this clinic, we'll help you get comfortable on your bike. We can check your seat height, teach you about your gears, safe braking, how to fix a flat, and change a tire. We'll ride around the neighborhood for practice. 8:45 - 11am Leaders: Annie, Becca, Charlene Click here for more information. |
15th Champ Ride this Saturday!
The Macy's Vermont CARES Champ Ride is a great way of gathering cyclists of all abilities to ride and raise money for Vermont CARES and fight HIV/AIDS.
On June 8, 2013 we'll ride through the byways of Vermont, beginning in Burlington's beautiful Oakledge Park and traveling a route graced by Lake Champlain and many of our gorgeous mountains. The ride will go through 16 cities and towns that are home to some 86,000 people.
The Champ Ride is a shared effort that raises much-needed funds for HIV/AIDS programming in our state. This year again, Local Motion's Bike Recycle Vermont team, led by the intrepid Ron Manganiello, is in the fundraising lead with $2,690 raised, and counting! Every dollar raised stays local, and helps our neighbors affected by HIV/AIDS.
Come join us! You can pick a riding distance that works for you: any distance from 17 to 100 miles through our routes, or choose your own distance on Burlington's renowned Bike Path. Registration is easy at www.vtcares.org.
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Mayor Wants BTV to Be a Walk & Bike Leader
 | | The Mayor travels with Sustainability Academy students on their May 'Multi-modal Tour' |
Burlington is on track to get a whole lot better for walking and biking over the next few years -- if Mayor Miro Weinberger has anything to say about it. On May 16, the mayor officially unveiled the Burlington "Go for Gold" Walk-Bike Blueprint, a vision for making Burlington a national leader in active transportation and recreation.
Want to help? Two things you can do:
- Come speak out at next Monday's City Council meeting in favor of PlanBTV! This vision for the future of downtown Burlington full of all kinds of great walking and biking ideas. June 10 at 7:30 in Contois Auditorium, BTV.
- Get in on the action with Burlington Walk Bike Council! It's the engine for making the Blueprint happen, and there's something for everyone. Next mtg: Thursday, June 27, 5:15pm, City Hall (Room 12).
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Q: Where's Kohl's Kids Bike Smart This Week?
 A: Montpelier's Union Elementary School! From the Times-Argus:  Thanks again to Kohl's Cares, Vermont Children's Hospital and VTrans for making this great skill-building venture possible. Want the Kohl's Kids Bike Smart to visit your town, let us know! |
Parents, Get Your Kid's School Walking This Fall!
While your child is probably thinking about the end of the school year, it's a good time for you to be thinking about their school's involvement in Safe Routes To School for the fall.
The VT Safe Routes to School program has resources, promotions and funding to get more students walking, biking and scootering to school more often.
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Bike Challenge Update: Vermont's On Top!
The 2nd annual National Bike Challenge is underway and Vermonters are again proving that we love to bike.
Vermonters are logging more trips and more miles per capita than anywhere else in the country...and we intend to keep it that way. So pedal on Vermont!
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Happy Trails!
Local Motion 2013 Crew: Brian, Chapin, Charlene, Dan, Don, Hannah, Jason, Kevin, Leslye, Lou, Marion, Mary Catherine, Phil, Stu and Thomas. |
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