July 18, 2009
Saturday 11:00am
Detail:
Old Brooklyn Community Development Corp is bringing bicycling and walking to the “All Access” Home and Bicycle Tour this year. The event won’t involve a street closing, but it will include free bicycle tours, walking tours and trolley tours of one of Cleveland’s most interesting neighborhoods. The day will include free activities like a family open studio at Art House, tour the areas’s largest and oldest Community Garden, a vintage bicycle show, historic homes will be open, cemeteries with Revolutionary and Civil War veterans will be highlighted, bicycle workshops and “Greening Your Life” presentations. Cleveland Metroparks is sponsoring BrookStock, a free music festival in the neighborhood, that starts just as Walk+Roll is wrapping up, so plan a day exploring what’s outside your own front door.
Walk+Roll has gained national attention and is recognized as a visionary for car-free initiatives that are taking hold all over the world. In 2008 New York, Portland, Miami, San Francisco and Chicago each hosted events that were like Cleveland’s Walk+Roll. Many more towns and cities are planning similar events for this summer. Walk+Roll has been featured in webinars, planning conference calls and newsletters by a diverse number of health, urban planning and advocacy organizations. Additionally, the United Nations’ World Health Organization is planning an initiative to get 1,000 cities across the globe doing events like Walk+Roll on April 4, 2010.
Walk+Roll began in 2006 by opening streets to people by temporarily closing Martin Luther King Jr Blvd to cars. The first year, 10,000 people enjoyed Cleveland’s Rockefeller Park and the Cultural Gardens over two Sundays. Walk+Roll branched out in 2008 and brought their temporary street closing event to Lakewood. For 2009, three new Cleveland neighborhoods are partnering with Walk+Roll to create events that encourage people to get out of their cars and to add more bicycling and walking to their daily lives
Walk+Roll has gained national attention and is recognized as a visionary for car-free initiatives that are taking hold all over the world. In 2008 New York, Portland, Miami, San Francisco and Chicago each hosted events that were like Cleveland’s Walk+Roll. Many more towns and cities are planning similar events for this summer. Walk+Roll has been featured in webinars, planning conference calls and newsletters by a diverse number of health, urban planning and advocacy organizations. Additionally, the United Nations’ World Health Organization is planning an initiative to get 1,000 cities across the globe doing events like Walk+Roll on April 4, 2010.
Walk+Roll began in 2006 by opening streets to people by temporarily closing Martin Luther King Jr Blvd to cars. The first year, 10,000 people enjoyed Cleveland’s Rockefeller Park and the Cultural Gardens over two Sundays. Walk+Roll branched out in 2008 and brought their temporary street closing event to Lakewood. For 2009, three new Cleveland neighborhoods are partnering with Walk+Roll to create events that encourage people to get out of their cars and to add more bicycling and walking to their daily lives
Where:
Old Brooklyn at Brooklyn Centre
Broadview Road
Cleveland, OH 44109
Website:
Event Website
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