Support the Greenway with a ride on Jekyll Island next month — Nov 28!
What better way to experience Jekyll Island’s Christmas celebration than to be cruising through the historic neighborhoods on your own “clean green machine,” namely, your bicycle. No combustible engines. No rolled up windows, isolating you from really experiencing the celebration of Christmas lights. No, just you, your family, and several of your closest friends, pedaling peacefully through our colorful history, illuminated with the brilliant colors of the season.
The Jingle Bell Ride, scheduled for Saturday, November 28th at 9:30am, is an eighteen mile, casual, family ride around Jekyll Island. The one to three hour ride will be held in conjunction with the Jekyll Island Christmas Tree lighting Festival. The festival includes a tree-lighting in front of the historic Jekyll island club hotel, holiday crafts, family fun, delicious food, and outstanding Christmas decorations.
The ride is being held to offer a fun family activity, and to promote not only Jekyll Island, but also the Coastal Georgia Greenway, which when complete, will offer pedalers and hikers in Georgia paved paths from south in St. Marys north to Savannah, ultimately part of the East Coast Greenway connecting 3000 miles between Maine and Key West.
Online preregistration is available here!
Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Drew Wade
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Greenway supporters!
Take a look at the upcoming ride from Tybee to Savannah organized by the Savannah Bicycle Campaign — the Tybee-Savannah Trailblazers’ Ride is a slow paced 23 mile police escorted ride to highlight the need for safe nonmotorized facilities connecting Savannah and Tybee.
Sunday, Nov 8, riders will converge on Tybee City Hall together with local leaders to make the trip, finishing at Johnson Square in Savannah. The ride includes the scenic vistas of 
the Tybee Lighthouse and Fort Pulaski.
The celebration at the finish will be an opportunity to hear from national leaders from the East Coast Greenway Alliance discussing trailbuilding as they visit Savannah for their national meeting that weekend! While raising awareness is the primary goal of the ride, net proceeds will go to the Coastal Georgia Greenway’s efforts to build trails in the coast.
Complete details are available at bicyclecampaign.org.
Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Drew Wade
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Coastal Georgia Greenway Board member Terry Landreth’s business in St. Marys, Camden Bicycle Center, has been awarded Silver level Bicycle Friendly Business recognition from the League of American Bicyclists! Terry is extremely active in advocacy for bicycling in coastal Georgia, and this recognition is well deserved! Please join us in congratulating Terry on this honor!
From the press release:
Washington, DC – September 16, 2009 – The League of American Bicyclists is proud to announce CAMDEN BICYCLE CENTER is named as a SILVER Bicycle Friendly Business and is one of the 45 new BFB award winners. This is the third time BFB winners have been announced since the program’s inception in 2008 when the League announced the first 13 designees. “We’re delighted to highlight CAMDEN BICYCLE CENTER and the ways in which they are getting more people on bikes,” stated League President Andy Clark. “In today’s challenging economic climate, businesses with healthy, happy and productive employees are going to be the most competitive and the most sustainable – the Bicycle Friendly Business program recognizes some of the best examples of this in practice.”
Businesses that apply for the award designation inspire and encourage their peers. The CAMDEN BICYCLE CENTER serves as an example for best practices and innovations in bicycle friendliness at the workplace CAMDEN BICYCLE CENTER makes bicycling an easy option for transportation and provides amenities such as safe and secure parking areas and incentives such as discount employee purchases.
The BFB program recognizes socially responsible businesses that promote healthy, happy, and green workplaces and provides a road map to become even more bicycle-friendly in the years to come. “Businesses across the nation are rising to the challenge of reducing their carbon footprint and improving the health of their employees – we are excited to be able to provide a roadmap to help achieve both these goals, and to recognize those companies that are leading the way,” said Clark.
Bicycle Friendly Businesses are corporations, organizations, nonprofits and associations that weave bicycling into their business culture and give employees and customers the opportunity to be active stewards of their personal and environmental health through bicycling. When bicycling is infused in an office or company culture, great things happen: reduced health care costs; more productive employees; improved worker and customer; satisfaction; smaller carbon footprint; and increased corporate social responsibility. See attached or click here for all new 2009 Fall BFB award winners. Click here to view a list of all BFB winners.
Posted on October 5th, 2009 by Drew Wade
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