11:00 a.m. Central Square/Post Office/City Hall
Details online:
http://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/Transportation/gettingaroundcambridge/bybike/bikeshare.aspx
Expansion of Hubway Bike Share Celebrated by
Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Boston
WHAT: Hubway Expansion Rolling Launch Party
WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE:
9am: Brookline Town Hall: Ribbon Cutting with Selectwoman Jesse Mermell
10am: Somerville City Hall: Ribbon Cutting with Mayor Curtatone
10:30am: Riders depart from Hubway stations at Somerville City Hall and MIT toward Cambridge City Hall
11am: Cambridge City Hall: Remarks from Mayor Henrietta Davis, MAPC Executive Director Marc Draisen, officials from MassDOT and FTA. Postmaster Katherine Lydon will unveil a new bicycle stamp. Coffee and snacks provided by the Central Square business Association.
12pm: Ride from Cambridge City Hall to Harvard Square for a lunch celebration sponsored by Harvard University and the Harvard Square Business Association.
12-1pm: Boston Bikes celebrates with “High Fives and Helmets” at a new station on Boylston St. and Washington St., giving away free helmets to the first 25 people on bikes or with a Hubway key.
4:30-5:30pm: Boston Bikes gives out more High Fives and Helmets at a new station at South Bay Plaza.
ALSO!
Please post your photos of you at a Hubway station in Brookline, Somerville, and Cambridge, and one of the new stations in Boston, to be entered to win a FREE 1-Year Hubway membership. Photos can be submitted to Hubway's Facebook wall or by emailing them to brogan...@altabicycleshare.com. You must have all four municipalities clearly identified in each photo along with yourself included in each photo.
We'll pick the top four winners at random and the fifth FREE membership will go to the person who shows the most creativity and spunk.