Walk and Roll is a really great website and a great idea; here’s their main principles –

Walk+Roll works to encourage and remind people to walk and bicycle in their daily lives by:

• - Organizing human-powered neighborhood events that combine fun with active living, learning and participating.
• - Advocating with politicians and community leaders so that they consider cyclists and pedestrians in public policy.
• - Promoting biking and walking through press releases and outreach to the media.

Walking and cycling rather than driving – particularly for short distances – saves money, improves physical and emotional health, decreases smog, improves neighborhood safety and encourages social interaction which builds community.

Most of their ideas are things we’ve kicked around here in Ithaca as well; some of their events are worth emulating. All in all, much food for thought.

Yikes! it’s May already and we need to make plans for the bike month, bike week, and bike-to-work day! A couple years ago, Bikeithaca.org kicked off with a quickly-organized plan. We had groups of people sign up to ride together to common destinations on Bike to Work Day. This was the most successful city-wide event of the kind that we’ve had, so we should try to improve on it this year. I’ll try to get the supporting stuff — maps, chat pages, etc., — ready in a few days so that we can turn to recruiting people and matching them up for the ride.