How much are you willing to pay for a gallon of gasoline before you change habits? Some predictions put it a $5 per gallon in 2012. GLT's Good To Go can help set you on a more environmentally AND economically sustainable path! Good to Go is an ongoing community wide project of GLT and ISU Sustainability designed to encourage healthy lifestyles and promote the use of alternative transportation instead of driving alone. The initiative's primary event is a Commuter Challenge, a friendly competition between individuals, teams and workplaces. During the 3rd week of May (12-18, 2012) participants track and report their commutes online.
Join the 2012 Commuter Challenge
During the Good To Go Commuter Challenge we ask you to try sustainable commuting for a week. We're hopeful our series of interviews with commuters who get around year round without relying on a car will inspire you to try our challenge for a week. We think you'll find it's just not that difficult. We also think you'll like saving gas dollars.
The Good To Go Commuter Challenge returns to McLean County May 12-18 and kicks off at the first Downtown Bloomington Farmers' Market of the season. Make your first sustainable commute of the Challenge to the market by using the bus or carpooling. Ride your bike and the Friends of the Trail will park it and watch it for you. Register for the Challenge and get a free water bottle and ice cream cone from Carl's. Explore a B-NPTS bus and test drive an all electric Mitsubishi "i."
Read all about the results of the community commuter challenge on Good To Go Blog.
A dramatic event involving dozens of bicyclists riding through the heart of Bloomington-Normal will highlight the central Illinois observation of National Bike Week. WGLT's Willis Kern has more.
A group of more than one hundred Normal Community High School Students is participating in National Ride Your Bike to School Day this morning. Joining them is Chris Koos, the Mayor of Normal. Koos acknowledges there has been push back in the community to bicycling initiatives.
Proposed route changes for the Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System could come at the expense of the Teal J bus line. The B-NPTS Board of Trustees is reviewing the preliminary draft of new routes around the Twin Cities.
The CEO of United and Continental airlines says a third Chicago airport would be damaging to the city. United Continental Holdings CEO Jeff Smisek says with an airport like O'Hare, there's no demand for a third: "When you start diluting a hub, you damage the city.
