Mayor's Healthy Hometown Toyota Hike and Bike

Spend your Labor Day biking from waterfront park over the Second Street Bridge and back and then to Cherokee Park. The route is 15 miles total and the event is just a great concept. I think the mayor rocks for his whole Healthy Hometown initiative.

Riders and walkers of all ages and abilities are encouraged to enjoy this free, non-competitive, family-centered event. Enjoy the extra bonus this year of walking or biking across the Second Street Bridge.

Monday September 3
9AM-11AM

Update: Let me just reiterate how much our mayor rocks for his support of biking as a form of transportation in our city. Unlike say U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters who thinks that money spent on bike trails is a waste and really the whole of the US transportation infrastructure is about to crumble because of it.

You know, I think Americans would be shocked to learn that only about 60 percent of the gas tax money that they pay today actually goes into highway and bridge construction. Much of it goes in many, many other areas.

There are museums that are being built with that money, bike paths, trails, repairing lighthouses. Those are some of the kind of things that that money is being spent on, as opposed to our infrastructure.

Well, there's about probably some 10 percent to 20 percent of the current spending that is going to projects that really are not transportation, directly transportation-related. Some of that money is being spent on things, as I said earlier, like bike paths or trails.