MassBike
44 Bromfield Street, Suite #207
Boston, MA, 02108
(617)542-BIKE (2453)
http://www.massbike.org

Release Date: 1/25/2000
Contact: Larry Slotnick, Acting Executive Director, MassBike bikexec@massbike.org

Press Release

EarthFest on April 22nd Welcomes Cyclists

MassBike to Provide Valet Bicycle Parking at Esplanade Event

(Boston, MA )The Earth Day Network (http://www.earthday.net) is organizing a series of events around the world to build awareness for the need to wisely use the Earth's natural resources. Earth Day 2000 will be celebrated in Boston on April 22nd with the EarthFest on the Charles River Esplanade. Expect to see musical acts performing all day long and hundreds of earth-friendly exhibitors lining the banks of the Charles.

MassBike, working with WBOS, the event's major sponsor, will make the event more accessible to cyclists by providing free, secure bicycle parking all day. As of this writing, the bike parking corral will be located behind the Hatch Shell. Just bring your bike over to the corral and you'll be given a claim ticket for your bike by a MassBike volunteer.

MassBike is launching this valet parking service to encourage greater bike ridership to public events, taking a cue from similar successful services offered by both the San Francisco and Maine Bicycle Coalitions.

Anyone wishing to help out on Earth Day at the bike corral or the MassBike tent should contact MassBike at 617-542-2453 or bikexec@massbike.org.

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MassBike
44 Bromfield Street, Suite #207
Boston, MA
617 –524 – BIKE (2453) http://www.massbike.org