Upcoming Meetings

Leila Rinehart and Ed DeFreitas
5BBC Program Coordinators

Also see our archive of meetings from 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005.

September 2008 General Meeting

Announcing: The East Coast Greenway!

Monday, September 15, 6:30 PM

Location: Lower Manhattan Business Improvement District, 104 Washington Street (near Rector Street), Manhattan. Subways: 1/R/W to Rector, or 4/5 to Wall Street. You can lock your bike right outside the building, which also houses a police substation.

PLANS FOR BIKEWAYS THRU NEW YORK, CONNECTING CONN. AND NJ, ANNOUNCED

Want to visit your parents in Hartford, Connecticut, or your sister, a senior at Princeton – by bicycle? You can do so now, perhaps by using the Current Travel Route’s maps, cue sheets, and guides posted (free) on the Website of the East Coast Greenway Alliance (ECGA), at www.greenway.org. .

But if the ECGA gets its way, albeit in a number of years down the road, you will be able to travel to those destinations – or nearer or farther -- by largely traffic-free routes.

For the ECGA’s vision is to provide muscle-powered users with a safe, non-motorized trail connecting the cities and towns of the eastern seaboard – on most of the 3,000 miles between the Maine-Canada border and Key West, Florida.

Come to the 5BBC meeting on MONDAY, SEPT. 15, to hear more, from:

• Michael Oliva, ECGA Mid-Atlantic Regional Trail Coordinator, who’ll give his amazing Google Earth presentation of the proposed route;
• Jackson Wandres, Co-chair, New York Committee for the ECG; and
• Elizabeth (Beth) Brody, Trustee, East Coast Greenway Alliance.

The New York State segment will follow two separate routes that connect in Westchester County with the Greenway in Connecticut. Both routes wind through the Bronx and Manhattan, converging in downtown Manhattan and utilizing ferry or PATH service to connect to the Greenway in New Jersey.

The all-volunteer New York Committee for the ECG is one of the 15 state committees (plus one in DC) along the route that is working in-state to improve the existing interim route and complete, as much as possible, the off-road segments. Working with local partner organizations and governmental agencies, the New York Committee is concentrating on closing gaps principally in Westchester County and on smoothing connections in the Bronx and Manhattan. Participation at the NY Committee’s meetings and events and in its organizational and advocacy efforts is welcomed! See www.greenway.org/gw-ny.htm for more information, especially if you cannot attend this meeting.

October 2008 General Meeting

Monday, October 20, 2008, 7:30 PM

Open Bike Shop at NYC Velo

NYC Velo, Inc. 64 2nd Avenue (between 3rd and 4th streets) New York, NY 10003 Subway, F or V to 2nd Avenue, 6 to Astor Place, or R or W to 8th Street.

We'll have a Flat Fixing contest, a speaker on winterizing your bicycle and riding safely and comfortably through the winter months, and possibly a few other surprise activities.

Refreshments will be served.

Nominations for the 5BBC 2008 Executive Board

The 5BBC Nominating Committee will also be represented at the meeting to receive nominations. All nominations must be be submitted by 8:00 pm, and will be announced before the close of the meeting.