UPDATE: Bike Miami is also on Sunday, January 18!
Don't forget that Bike Miami is back! On Sunday, December 14, 2008 from 9am-3pm, the following streets will be closed to cars:
- East Flagler St (from the Courthouse to Bayfront Park)
- SE 1st Ave to SE 4th St and then south over the South Miami Avenue bridge to 10th St (at Mary Brickell Village)
- Note: North & Southbound streets will allow for through traffic at intersections to maintain motor traffic access to Downtown and the Brickell area.
From the Bike Miami blog:
Full List of FREE Activities by Area
Bayfront Park:
- Bicycle Valet, all day (between Biscayne Boulevard and the Fountain)
- Toy Drive location to benefit St. Stephens, local children and teens, hosted by the Everglades Bicycle Club
- Yoga Class, 10 am at the Tina Hills Pavilion (between the Holiday Tree and the Children’s Playground)
- Bringing Books Alive, 1pm: A City Year presentation that uses props, storytelling and interactive activities to get children excited about reading: Literally bringing a book to life!
Mary Brickell Village area:
- Bike Clinic all day – in the Mary Brickell Courtyard by Roma Gelato and Grimpa Restaurant. Questions about your bike? Did you know that it is important to have your helmet fitted properly? Sun Cycling bike technicians will be on hand to fill your tires and help you out.
- OYAJI,:12 noon, Come see local band, “the Samurai Warriors of Classic Rock, R&B and the Blues” in the Mary Brickell Village Piazza
- Blu Pizza e Cucina: Offering free bites from their Italian Kitchen throughout the day.
- Bike Valet: all day A free service available from 9:00am – 4:00pm
- Toy Drive location to benefit St. Stephens, local children and teens, hosted by the Everglades Bicycle Club all day
******If you will be using Twitter from the event, please be sure to use the tag #bikemiami so we can track all the tweets.*****
Adults: Don’t miss the TransitMiami.com AfterParty at Tobacco Road. Bike Miami Day Happy Hour starts at 2pm with $2.00 Miller Lights in the back courtyard.
3 Responses to “Bike Miami is Back, Sunday Dec 14, 2008 (FREE!)”
There weren’t nearly as many bike miami enthusiasts this time as there were last time. Perhaps the gloomy route scared them off. This type of event works well in other cities because of their density and mixed land use streetscape. In South Florida, this even would work best in residential neighborhoods, and not gloomy commercial areas.
I thought that there was also extremely less online publicity for the event as compared to last time. No Facebook events were created, etc…even though there are over 300 members of the Bike Miami FB group.
Also, it was kind of a gloomy looking day. Plus the holidays, etc etc.
I love the fact that it is downtown/Brickell…especially since I’m a Brickell resident. If we want a 24/7 city, we need to offer events for residents of downtown to participate in on the weekends with their families.
I hope that lower participation doesn’t slow down the pace of Bike Miami. Lower publicity and time of year have a lot to do with it, I think. Anyone else have thoughts?
Cool blog.
For the sake of being Green, is anyone lobbying for using leftover water from people’s showers to water plants?