Make Queens Safer’s Bike Bonanza / Safer Greener Streets Fair keeps growing…
Here’s today’s program:
- A bike helmet giveaway, courtesy of NYCDOT
- A kids’ bike swap, courtesy of Recycle-A-Bicycle
- Learn to ride lessons, courtesy of Bike New York and Citibike
- Free bike repair, courtesy of Bike Yard
- A Bicycle Rodeo to teach beginning cyclists basic safety skills for biking in traffic, courtesy of Elmhurst Hospital Center, Young Governors, and other partners
- A Kid Engineers Traffic Study to document traffic safety risks in our neighborhood, with the Transportation Alternatives Queens Committee, PS280 staff, and Councilmember Danny Dromm
- A Mini-Film Festival about street safety and street transformation initiatives in Queens and around the world, featuring Streetfilms
- Opportunities to learn about community groups involved in making our streets safer, greener and more livable, including the Jackson Heights Beautification Group, the Girl Scouts of Greater New York, Transportation Alternatives’ NYC Bike Ambassadors, New York Coalition for Transportation Safety and others
Update
Today was amazing! We had hundreds of people from the community show up and easily a hundred volunteers help out. We have posted a report from our Kid Engineers Traffic Study.