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Healthy Cyclists, Healthy Communities – A Big Success!!

Published on: November 12, 2013

On Friday November 8, 2013 over 120 people attended the first Cape Cod Bicycle Summit.  The event was hosted by the Barnstable County Department of Human Services and Mass In Motion.  Mass in Motion is a statewide initiative of the Department of Public Health and promotes policy change to encourage healthy eating and active living.  Barnstable County is one of 33 MiM projects in the state.  A big thank you to our gold sponsors for the event – Cape Cod Cycling Club, Cape Cod Fitness Company, Cape Cod Regional Transportation Authority, Corner Cycle and Cape Air.   Click here to view power point presentations.

Help us keep the energy from the Bike Summit going.  Here are a few things you can do to stay involved:

  1. Attend the next MassBike Cape Cod Chapter Meeting. Contact Rob Miceli at rmiceli22@comcast.net for information on upcoming meeting dates or if you have any questions.
  2. Take part in one of the weekly rides or on-road bicycle skills classes offered by Cape Cod Cycling Club.
  3. Contact your town planning office to see if there are any bicycle or transportation committees which you might get involved in. If not, see if you can help start one!
  4. If County-wide planning is of more interest to you, check out the Cape Cod Commission’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning page.
  5. Sign up for the MassBike email list to stay on top of bicycle events and statewide advocacy issues.
  6. Learn more about the Barnstable County Mass In Motion program by visiting the Department of Human Services website.
  7. Visit the CCRTA website for transit and biking maps.
  8. And finally, let us know what you thought about the Bike Summit by emailing bikesummit@BarnstableCounty.org.