Over the weekend Long Beach Cyclists gathered for a day of Bike Tours in and out of the Harbor and hosted Bike Valet!
Green Port Festival is a giant outdoor event that attracts about 10,000 people! The purpose is an all free open house of the Port. This year they invited us to go green with them and involve bikes. What better way to be green!
Two months prior to GPF we worked closely with the port team brainstorming, organizing and implementing the bike plan. Led by Matt Goldman and Ryan Gregnano (POLB’s Bike Guys) we pulled it off! We transited over 100 people to the GPF via six tours through out the day from The Promenade at Ocean and First St. over the Queensway bridge and into the Port where we than parked bikes in the Bike Valet area of Harbor Way (a total of 160 bikes were parked!)
While in the port, we led bike tours out to pier “J” via the route along the water’s edge and around the Queen Mary. Great views and warm weather greeted us while we toured the proposed Inner Harbor Bike Trail that could be implemented soon with the help of the POLB commissioners and City of Long Beach’s Transportation Department. If you feel inclined (and we hope you do) write some letters to these VIP’s encouraging them to get the ball rollin’! The route would complement well the already scenic and most always empty bike path that exists there, taking the cyclists around the Spruce Goose dome and all the way out to Pier ‘J’.
This was an incredible success for LB Cyclists! Thank you to all my lovely hardworking volunteers: Shawn, Josh, Stacie, Travis, Nate, Jenny, Michael, Donald, Tom and Cindy.
What is growing from Shawn’s head…..he’s alien
On a serious note great images and I really want a Port Button and your guys are really getting out there, keep up the great cycling team work.