Star Tribune Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:57:03 GMT
Bicycling is about to get a whole lot better in the city of Minneapolis
Improvements include new bike trails, a bike rental/repair center, more bike racks and more bike lanes on city streets Bicycling is about to get a whole lot better in the city of Minneapolis, as the city uses a $900,000 grant from the Non-Motorized Transportation Pilot Project to promote biking and walking. The city also will restripe bike lanes on streets, add scores of bike racks, improve trails and open a bike rental-bike storage-bike repair center. And to promote bike riding, the city is proclaiming May 12 to 18 as Bike Walk Week, an initiative to encourage people to leave their cars at home and bike or walk to work. Minneapolis already does fairly well in that area, ranking second only to Portland, Ore. in the percentage of commuters who pedal to work. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2.5 percent of commuters in Minneapolis reported that they rode their bikes to work in 2006, the latest year for which figures are available.
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