Monday, March 4, 2013

Long Beach by Bike/Walk Tour (FULL)

Long Beach invites your city officials for guided tour
Due to overwhelming response this tour is now full. See the tour schedule below.

The City of Santa Ana Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Agency, in cooperation with The City of Long Beach, The Bicycle Tree, and the Orange County Bicycle Coalition, invites you on a FREE group tour of the bicycle infrastructure of Long Beach led by experts and advocates Charlie Gandy and Allan Crawford.  
***RSVP is Required***

Long Beach By Bike Tour (FREE) is scheduled twice a month(RSVP), usually on Fridays from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm invites public officials and citizens to participate. The contact person is Melissa Balmer at wobsocal@gmail.com or (562) 612-0197. 

March Tour Schedule:
Tour #1 Saturday 9 March 10:00am tour (FULL)
April Tour Schedule:
Tour #2 Saturday 27 April 9:00am tour

Participants will join either a bike tour (8 mile) led by Charlie Gandy (bikes provided by the City of Long Beach) or a walking tour led by Allan Crawford. The tour will introduce participants to the many beneficial and innovative elements of bicycle infrastructure that have been implemented in Long Beach. Participants will receive a free lunch. The tour will then reconvene at Long Beach City Hall, where the process of implementing bicycle infrastructure will be discussed with Pete Van Nuys of the Orange County Bicycle Coalition or Brenda Miller of PEDal. 

Bus Transportation from Santa Ana:
From Santa Ana a bus will take participants to Long Beach.  The tour will take place on Saturday, March 9th,and will leave by bus promptly at 9:00 am from Santa Ana Stadium on N. Flower St. The bus will arrive back in Santa Ana at 3 pm.

Please Provide the following information:
1. Your name/the name(s) of all participants
2. Your contact information
3. Your tour preference - either the walking tour or the bike tour
****RSVP HERE**** to Enrique Marban, Recreation Program Leader, City of Santa Ana: emarban@santa-ana.org (714) 647-5302

More info:

City of Santa Ana Parks, Recreation, and Community Services:
http://www.ci.santa-ana.ca.us/parks/
 

Charlie Gandy and Allan Crawford's Tour:
 http://www.charliegandy.com/tour-long-beach-by-bike/

Long Beach Bike Tour Hosted by Charlie Gandy (pdf)
http://www.charliegandy.com/storage/Long%20Beach%20By%20Bike%20Tour.pdf


Information provided by:
The Bicycle Tree
P.O. Box 11293
Santa Ana, CA 92711

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