Let's Roll
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Walk+Roll encourages 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 and encouraging 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 which improves our living environment, improves neighborhood safety and encourages social interaction which builds community. 2010 plans:Kaiser Permanente has provided substantial seed funding towards up to six Walk+Roll programs in communities all over the greater Cleveland area. After meeting with numerous community organizations and local leaders, we are expecting 2010 to be a summer-long initiative which will continuously remind people to add more biking and walking to their daily lives. We will have the 2010 dates and locations finalized by February, so sign up for our e-mail list if you would like to be one of the first to know. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Cleveland Bicycle Week 2010 will be Saturday May 15 through Sunday May 23! Just like before, it is a collection of cycling initiatives all over Greater Cleveland hosted by businesses, schools, park districts, communities, individuals, non-profits, teams or clubs. If you or your organization would like to be part of Cleveland Bicycle Week, put on your Thinking Helmet and come up with something that relates to bicycles. It could be a discount for people who ride to your establishment, a prize for staff who ride to work, a bicycle commuting class at your workplace, a fun ride that showcases a neighborhood, a competitive training ride, a bicycle giveaway to a lucky employee, a bicycle art show, a used bike collection for charity or any other thing you can come up with that celebrates how bicycles can make our communities cleaner, greener, wealthier and healthier. Once you have your idea finalized, send the info below to lois@walkroll.com and we will get it on a centralized website. We'll begin sending media releases on March 1, so the sooner you get your info to me the more exposure, publicity and participation you will get. If you know someone else who might be interested in being part of Cleveland Bicycle Week, please forward this to them. Info needed for your idea, event or promotion: -Name or Organization -Day and date -Time -Location -Description -E-mail contact -Phone (if you want to list one) -Website (if you have one) -Logo (if you have one) Spring will be here before we know it! ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2008 and 2009 were very, very busy years! We are extremely grateful for the volunteers who helped make all of these events happen! Transportainment Old Brooklyn All Access Tour Walk+Roll Detroit Shoreway Walk+Roll Slavic Village Bicycling Magazine's BikeTown 2009 - we gave away new bicycles to people in seven cities across the U.S. We went to Los Angeles, Miami, Long Island, Phoenix, Jackson, Atlanta and Chicago Cleveland Bicycle Week - dozens of people helped co-produce the first ever bicycle week in Cleveland. BikeTown - Bicycling Magazine hired W+R as the field coordinator for their popular BikeTown project where new riders are given bicycles. 2006 BikeTown cities were Columbus OH, Lincoln NE, San Francisco CA, Portland OR and Seattle WA. W+R coordinated the events in each city and helped give away almost 200 bicycles which are changing peoples' lives. Walk+Roll Lakewood - the city of Lakewood got behind the Walk+Roll concept by encouraging residents to bike and walk in their daily lives. Walk+Roll Cleveland - for the third year, we opened Rockefeller Park and The Cultural Gardens to people by closing MLK Jr Blvd to cars. Cleveland Police on Bicycles - we raised nearly $6000 to buy bicycle equipment for our officers. Sparx in the City - with our leadership, a bicycle option was added so people could ride bikes as well as take the trolley. Over 250 temporary "Share the Road" signs were put up to show cyclists the route and to remind motorists that bicycles have a right to the road. Media, public perception and education - Walk+Roll participated in dozens of Cleveland area community meetings, block club presentations and local events. W+R was also directly involved in approximately 70 minutes of television/radio programming plus over 300 column inches of print media that mentioned walking and bicycling. All of these things help communicate the benefits of bicycling and walking and encourage people to bicycle and walk in the daily lives. Conferences and networking - we participated in these conferences and events in 2008: - National Bike Summit in Washington DC - Active Transportation Conference in Toronto - Ohio Parks and Recreation Conference in Dayton - Thunderhead Alliance for Biking and Walking Retreat in Seattle - Car-Free Cities Conference in Portland, Oregon - Sunday Parkways in Portland, Oregon - Summer Streets in New York City - Streetlife in Munich, Germany We are looking for inspired, energetic, productive people to serve on the board; if you would like to serve on the board of Walk+Roll, please e-mail Lois Moss or Jim Roosa.
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