Bike to Work Day Open Thread
If you've got a story, observation, or factoid from your ride in this morning, tell us all about it in the comments.
By
Ben Fried
9:59 AM EDT on May 15, 2009
If you’ve got a story, observation, or factoid from your ride in this morning, tell us all about it in the comments.
Thanks to Bicycles Only for the photo illustration on the right. You can contribute any pictures you take of today’s commute to our Flickr pool by adding the “streetsblog” tag.
Stay tuned for more Bike to Work Day coverage from Clarence, Elizabeth, and the Streetfilms crew. I hear they’re aiming for a record turn-around on this one.
Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.
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