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Old June 20th 05, 08:11 PM
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Default Epic Greenway Podcast and NBG heads for Omaha!!

Over the weekend here, we did a groundbreaking interview with a man
who is doing more to change the landscape of America in a way that is
self sustainable than any man alive. In redoing our interview with Ray
Irvin, a man widely known as Mr Greenway, we were able to quadruple the
size of the wisdom he shared with us. Filled with new information and
alive with hope for an America that builds bridges instead of walls,
this powerful podcast can be found at:

http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/N...-20050618-RayI
rvin6-18-05Best.mp3

In it Ray talks about an attraction, a city wide Greenway system, that
will:

- Bring tourists and new businesses to your city
- Draw the dynamic creative energy of a new work force to your city, the
new Creative Class that Richard Florida talks bout in his book* "The
Rise of the Creative Class" http://www.creativeclass.org
- Provide for a wholesome family activity
- Give the working class and service industries mobility that does not
contribute to the gridlock problems most cities face
- Pay for itself
- Offer cities a way to locate their infrastructure so they don't have
tear it up each time its gas, water cable or fiber optics lines are
serviced or augmented
- Help to keep your neighbors and friends healthy

As such, once we soon get it transcribed, it can be written as an
advisory that can be be titled: "Attn: Urban Planners and City Fathers
and Mothers all over America, looking for a coast effective way to
revitalize your city?"

For more info about how Ray's Greenways have truly brought new vitality
to what was once the dying Rust Belt city of Indianapolis, see:
http://indygreeways.org

In other Greenway news, keep your eye on
http://www.bikeroute.com/NationalMay...East-West.html
as soon we will have pictures and a report on Friday's Des Moines NBG
Day. That completed, the president of Omaha Pedalers is now on his way
from there to Omaha, a city rising to the Richard Florida challenge
talked about above as as per the following news release:

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Omaha Bike club Prez to Help Showcase Omaha's Bike
Assets
Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey will be at Lewis and Clark Landing on June 23rd
at 11 AM to welcome Omaha Pedalers bike club president, Stephen
Schnitkner, who will have bicycled in from Des Moines as a part of the
4th Annual National Mayors' Ride which visits 52 other major cities this
year. Stephen's ride will help the National Bicycle Greenway (NBG) bring
national attention to Omaha's massive trail network and to the
bicycle/pedestrian bridge that will, when it is completed, be the first
to connect two major cities, Omaha and Council Bluffs, and two states,
Iowa and Nebraska.

Last year, when Mayor Fahey told National Bicycle Greenway director,
Martin Krieg that Omaha has 90 miles of concrete bike trails running
through the city, Krieg resolved to learn more so he could tell his
national bicycle audience about it. In doing so he learned that Omaha
has all the ingredients needed to make it one of America's top biking
cities.

"Not only are the trails there but so are the grassroots organizations
that can help make them part of a transportation network that replaces
car trips," says Krieg. Armed with a Mayor who runs and bikes, a zealous
Convention and Visitors Bureau, life seasoned bike activists and several
results producing nonprofits geared toward improving the quality of
life for Omahans, indeed everything is in place to turn Omaha into
bicycle heaven.

Lewis and Clark Landing, at the edge of the Missouri River was chosen as
the site for this year's fourth annual Omaha NBG Day because that is
where the precedent setting bridge that Omaha will soon be famous for,
leaves Nebraska soil. At the ceremony, the Mayor will issue a
proclamation making June 23 Omaha NBG Day and representatives from a
handful of different Omaha promoting organizations including Activate
Omaha, the PAPIO Missouri River Natural Resource District , Omaha by
Design and Visit Omaha, will talk about what they are doing to make
Omaha a better place to ride a bike.

More info: http://www.bikeroute.com
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Can U feel the Greenway energy? It's catching on everywhere!!

Too exciting!!

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54% of New York City households do not own cars

M A R T I N K R I E G : "Awake Again" Author
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