Group bike ride part of Duke’s Focus the Nation festivities
by Phillip Barron
Focus the Nation is a national effort calling for greater action, education, and awareness of global warming. From their website…
Focus the Nation will culminate January 31st, 2008 in simultaneous educational symposia held across the country. Our intent is to move America beyond fatalism to a determination to face up to this civilizational challenge, the challenge of our generation.
As part of campus-wide FTN activities, Duke University students are organizing a group bike ride. According to organizer Rob Fox, “the bike ride is tied in as a public awareness move for alternative transportation such as bikes.”
The bike ride is just part of a day-long schedule of events — click here for more.
If you want to take part in the ride, meet at Duke’s chapel, which is on West Campus. The ride starts at 10:30AM; it’s a fairly relaxed three mile route:
1. Start at Duke Chapel bus stop on West Campus
2. Go down Chapel Drive until the roundabout
3. Go down Campus Drive until Anderson St., take a right.
4. Continue down Anderson St. until Duke University Rd., take a right
5. Continue down Duke University Rd. until Cameron Blvd., take a right
6. Continue down Cameron Blvd. until Science Drive, take a right
7. Continue down Science Drive until Towerview Rd., take a right
8. Take the sidewalk leading from Wilson Gym towards the Chapel, turn left to get onto B.C. Plaza
Comments
I wish the start time was closer to my commutte time. I will already be at work by then. I hope this is the first of many things coming from Duke. I’m sure thay can “afford” to do much more for our city and nation.
Mike, I had the same thought. I’ll be at work, 10 miles away. It would be hard to cut out and join this ride.
I invited him to spread the word about Critical Mass too, a monthly version of their ride.