Plainville Greenway Alliance

By any measure, this event was a great success. 700 participants from bike shops to bike trails and to bike friendly communities sharing their accomplishments and their disappointments. We were agog over Google's neat new map application that allows a cyclist to choose routes best for cycling. Try it at the link included below. We were treated to some great presentations, and some not so great. We met with our Congressional Delegation from CT (well, with one face to face; the other meetings were with aides), but Congressman Chris Murphy (D, CT 5th) said he had never received such a large group of constituents to advocate for one issue. For me a great highlight was seeing all these folks walking between and through the Capitol and the various Senate and House office buildings wearing these lapel pins. Various staff members admired them and recognized them as being part of the Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) effort to make the entire country more bike friendly, starting with Co...

It did not look like this as we biked the short distance (4.5 mi from Renaissance Cyclery) to New Britain Museum of American Art. We had a leisurely snack and chatted in the cafe before viewing this Maxfield Parrish painting among the other treasures on display at this jewel of a museum. There is a great exhibition about the Shakers, and a must see painting in memory of the events at the WTC of 11 SEP 2001. We wish you could have joined us, but keep looking for other rides and events as we post them here on the blog. And, please, feel free to add your own posts.