This weekend: Blue Island Non-Motorized Plan workshop and more

 First, let's take stock of what's going on with Blue Island:

Blue Island Non-Motorized Plan Public Workshop

August 27, 10:30 AM to Noon

Blue Island Public Library

FREE and OPEN TO ALL (Got kids? See the bike rodeo below!)


Bring your everyday experience of biking, walking, driving and transit in Blue Island to our workshop and share it with us. Help us find solutions that will connect the city to the future Cal-Sag Trail, and improve the safety, convenience, and popularity of healthy, active, and sustainable transportation.

Kids Bike Rodeo—FREE!

10:30 AM to Noon

Parking lot across the street from the library

Bring your kids and we'll tune up their biking skills! A skilled Active Trans youth bike instructor will teach your kids safe cycling skills and tips while you're inside sharing your Blue Island biking, walking and transit experience.

Cal-Sag Cycles Bike Fix Up 

10:30 AM to 2 PM
Parking lot across the street from the library

Flat tires and squeeling brakes shouldn't stop you from beautiful Blue Island-in-the-fall cruising. The famed Cal-Sag Cycles youth can get your ride rolling in time for fall cruising. They'll be doing some basic wrenching—bolt tightening, seat raising, flat fixing, brake adjusting—for a donation that supports the Cal-Sag Cycles program. 
 

Workshops for Calumet-Sag Trail's wayfinding and amenities have begun!

As the first of eight workshops open to the public,

This Saturday: Abandon ye bikes, all who exit here

Starting Saturday, you can finally get rid of your old bike from high school your dad keeps knocking over when he's backing the lawn mower out of his garage. Where can you take it?

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At least I have my trail

I'm to speak at the Connecting Communities Trails Symposium at Chicago State University on Wednesday, Jan. 26.

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Tune in to Active Trans work on the Calumet-Sag Trail, Palos Heights Non-Motorized Plan

Palos Heights' local cable access channel, Channel 4, put Palos Heights Parks & Rec director Mike Leonard and me on Sue Jankowski's show.

Rails to Trails Conservancy: Calumet-Sag Trail "a national model of rail-trail excellence"

Rails to Trails Conservancy (RTC) with The Coca-Cola Company has awarded the Friends of the Calumet-Sag Trail (

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Get back on that horse and join Friends of the Calumet-Sag Trail for the second annual Happy Trails Jamboree, October 1 at Lake Katherine, Palos Heights, Ill.

http://calsagtrail.org/jamboree

The 2009 event helped the Friends match $150,000 in federal trail planning dollars, helping communities from Lemont to Burnham receive their fair share of trail goodness.

Last year’s Jamboree set a tone of boot stompin’, skirt twirlin’ orneriness we hope to extend through this FUNdraising evening. It’s a $20 million trail we aim to build, so giddy up and get your tickets—only 250 of these li’l critters are loose in the wild, and they’ll disappear quicker than a belly itch on a snake.

http://calsagtrail.org/jamboree/tickets

Durbin: $1.12 million for Southland trails

 U.S. Senator Dick Durbin secured $1.12 million for completing Chicago Southland trails today, including:

Calumet-Sag Trail on Gapers Block

Writer Sheila Burt just hit it out the park on Gapers Block today - including the challen