Hello Green Streets friends!
Happy summer travels and stay-cations! Friday, June 29 is Walk/Ride Day! Check-in your commute any day from Monday, June 25 through Monday, July 9 to enter the raffle & redeem retail rewards. (You can always check-in again to modify; the last version is the one that is recorded!)
June Walk/Ride Day Theme: Bus Travel
With extensive route coverage to cities and rural areas in New England and beyond, the bus is a cheap and green way to travel long distance in the summer. (Read Wanderu's guest post about this on our website!) It's also a great place to start a conversation with a stranger - a scientifically proven mood-booster. Check out "How to Start a Conversation with Someone on the Train, Bus, or Subway" for some tips! Don't see the bus route you want? Start your own on Skedaddle!
Check-in Raffle Prizes
$25 credit on Skedaddle plus Skedaddle swag
$25 Harvest Food Co-op gift card
$50 Wanderu bus/train ticket
Water bottle and family pack of 5 tickets to an immersive audio tour of the MIT campus powered by Alight, an MIT DesignX startup
Check-in Questions of the Month
What is your favorite bus ride memory and what made it so special?
What bus do you typically ride (MBTA # is fine)?
What destination would you like to have bus accessible and why?
Events (many more listed here!)
Pre Walk/Ride Day
Saturday, June 23:
Magazine Beach swimming pool opens for the summer
9:30 am to 3 pm: Boston Neighborhood Bike Forum
10 am: Architecture-themed community bike ride through Cambridge
Tuesday, June 26:
6 to 8 pm: Net Impact Boston Happy Hour at Battery Park Bar and Patio, Boston
Wednesday, June 27:
5 to 7 pm: Livable Cities Social at Whole Foods Somerville
7 pm: Cambridge Bike Safety meeting, location TBD
Walk/Ride Day - June 29:
Free yoga classes, free ice cream, free coffee, and other free and discounted goodies throughout our region
Starting at 7 am: Free Pancake Breakfast at Ferris Wheels Bike Shop in Jamaica Plain
8 to 9 am: Somerville Bike Committee / Whole Foods Commuter Breakfast on Beacon Street, Somerville
Free electric bike demos and trials at Superpedestrian's Cambridge HQ
7 to 11 pm: City of Cambridge Dance Party 2018 at Central Square
Post Walk/Ride Day
August 13 to 18: Cambridge iCan Bike camp - sign up now to volunteer for a 90 minute daily slot spotting individuals with disabilities learning to bike in just one week! Life-changing!
New Feature: Retailer Coupons (Glitch solved!)
You can download or print coupons to use with our retail partners after you check-in on Walk/Ride Day. Visit the retail partner map and select the coupons you would like to redeem using the checkboxes. Let us know what you think!
Featured Monthly Sponsors
Skedaddle is a transportation company that uses bus-pooling technology to bring groups of people to amazing destinations outside of their city. With Skedaddle, you'll avoid traffic and delayed trains and get to your favorite events and destinations with other awesome riders going to the same place. Check out Skedaddle's $10 rides to Long Sands Beach every Saturday in July!
Use the Green Gas Card next time you purchase gas and offset your vehicle's emissions while also supporting local organizations like ours. Find out more here.
May Survey Results (900 Respondents) - Bike Gear
And, of course, thank you to our retail partners, raffle donors, and ongoing sponsors!
Walk/Ride Days are an opportunity to experiment with your commute once a month or to celebrate your normal commute - either is welcome! Simply checking in your commute is the most important action to your workplace's leaderboard rank and enters you into a raffle for fabulous prizes from over 100 local retailers.
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Have a great rest of your day, week, and weekend, and please stay in touch!
Janie
Janie Katz-Christy, Director
Green Streets Initiative
www.gogreenstreets.com
617-299-1872 (office)