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BikePGH Marks Successful Year of Car Free Fridays

In Spring 2010, the Alliance awarded a $15,000 Advocacy Advance Grant to the good folks at Bike Pittsburgh to bolster their Car Free Fridays program. The innovative initiative, BikePGH pledged, would entice commuters who travel alone by car to adopt more social means of transportation: biking, walking, ride-sharing or taking public transit. And they made good on that promise.

Late last month, they crunched the numbers and the results were impressive. In 2010, Car Free Fridays included 38 activities in 8 different neighborhoods. Those events attracted 1,158 participants and enticed 795 people to take the extra step of signing the Car Free Friday pledge. Because of the efficacy and visibility of the program, BikePGH also won the support of 15 funding organizations and secured $54,950 in in-kind support from area businesses.

This year, though, they’re making the program even more interactive with the addition of a long-awaited Car Free Calculator. According to BikePGH, the online application will “track the calories burned, CO2 kept out of our atmosphere, and the money we save as individuals and as a region by replacing car trips with biking and walking trips.”

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Posted by Carolyn S on January 05, 2011
Tags: car free fridays, bike pittsburgh, advocacy advance
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