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Permalink Reply by Adam "Cezar" Jenkins on January 8, 2010 at 10:43am

There were quite a few people there last year. Will there be room around 9 W Hubbard, or is the street closed to traffic?

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Permalink Reply by Active Transportation Alliance on January 8, 2010 at 10:48am

We're going to do our best, Adam...we'll bring a couple of bike racks down and will set up the tent in a parking space on the street (we'll pay for parking, of course). But most of the celebration will be on the sidewalk.

New this year was a fee for Daley Plaza that wasn't in our budget so we're doing our best to still make the winter bike commuting celebration happen.

Thanks,
Ethan, with Active Trans

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Permalink Reply by RodimusPrime on January 9, 2010 at 4:46am

are there bike winter tshirts? i think there should be. .

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Permalink Reply by Active Transportation Alliance on January 9, 2010 at 12:38pm

We would love to partner with www.bikewinter.org and pass out winter biking T-shirts...that's something we'll consider for future years.

As I mentioned above, budget is an issue. This event is not supported by cash sponsorship, despite our best efforts to sell sponsorship for it. Obviously, this is a super challenging time to secure sponsorship dollars.

We'll keep working on it, of course, because we think it's important to celebrate winter bike commuting. We are glad Caribou and Eli's are willing to donate hot drinks and sweet treats.

We will keep T-shirts in mind for 2011, etc. Sorry we can't pull it off this year...hope you'll still stop by.

Thanks,
Ethan, with Active Trans

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