{"id":1312,"date":"2013-08-09T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationalbicyclegreenway.wordpress.com\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:06:58","slug":"coast-to-coast-nbg-routed-2002-santa-cruz-to-dc-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/08\/09\/coast-to-coast-nbg-routed-2002-santa-cruz-to-dc-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast-to-Coast NBG Routed &#038; 2002 Santa Cruz to DC Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>After many hours of pretty focused map work, we now have a coast-to-coast route for the\u00a0San Francisco to\u00a0<a>Washington, DC<\/a>\u00a0greenway we long have foreseen! By combining the work of our NBG Scouts with the crowd sourced bike route data that Google has on line, the connection that has resulted signals a new direction . Toward that end, in mirroring what Carl Fischer did with the Lincoln Highway (America&#8217;s first coast-to-coast road), as I describe in\u00a0&#8220;How America Can Bike and Grow Rich, the NBG Manifesto&#8221;, we no longer have to look for the best route, we have to now work on getting cyclists on it. And the more it gets used, the more there will be a demand for it to become the perfect world\u00a0National Bicycle Greenway we long have foreseen!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=201627949464435355894.0004e21690f5cb510f3e8&amp;msa=0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=m&amp;ll=42.423457,-95.449219&amp;spn=31.066063,56.25&amp;z=4&amp;output=embed\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=201627949464435355894.0004e21690f5cb510f3e8&amp;msa=0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=m&amp;ll=42.423457,-95.449219&amp;spn=31.066063,56.25&amp;z=4&amp;source=embed\">San Francisco to Washington, DC<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n<div>As we celebrate our 20 Mayors&#8217; Ride\u00a0stops along the way with also our NBG Biking City Reports, we will be making them popular biking destinations that many cyclists will be using our route to access. This as we will giving life to the route itself with\u00a0excerpts from my book and those riders reports we will be blogging at our site. Besides benefitting all those businesses along the way that service people power, the growing numbers of people using our greenway will also reawaken all those small\u00a0towns the automobile has forsaken as well as parts of the country our interstates have caused people to abandon.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Soon, we will have all the separate connections merged so we can present the overview at our site. In the interim, I just got this from the former Mayor of Santa Cruz (located on the coast 100-miles below San Francisco), who was clearing up some files. Indeed Chris Krohn long has seen the big picture:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mayor Williams,<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, August 11, 2002, the first annual Santa Cruz National<br \/>\nBicycle Greenway (NBG) Fest will be held in the City of Santa Cruz and<br \/>\nwill serve as the final destination for a ten-city relay that will<br \/>\nbegin in\u00a0<a>Washington, DC<\/a>, and is expected to bring cyclists from all<br \/>\nover the United States. \u00a0The purpose of this event is to offer America<br \/>\na solution to its transportation woes with a nationwide network of<br \/>\ninterconnected bike roads and pathways called the NBG. For additional<br \/>\ninformation, the website address is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/SCNBGFest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.bikeroute.com\/SCNBGFest<\/a>. As<br \/>\nMayor of the City of Santa Cruz, using this as a medium, I am inviting<br \/>\nyou to connect your city with ours.<\/p>\n<p>The promoters of this event, the same group that sent a significant<br \/>\nnumber of cyclists to you in 2000, would like to bring bike riders<br \/>\nfrom you to us armed with your official decree-a mayoral proclamation<br \/>\nstating your support for safe bikeable connections from one coast and<br \/>\nmajor metro area to another.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, the riders that visited\u00a0<a>Washington, DC<\/a>, area were armed with<br \/>\ntwo resolutions, one from Mount Rainer, MD, the host to the street<br \/>\nfair that followed the NBG ride around the Capitol, and the other from<br \/>\n<a>Santa Cruz, CA<\/a>, drafted just before the NBG sent riders to you from<br \/>\nour lighthouse. \u00a0Set up as a national relay, your proclamation will go<br \/>\nup the Chesapeake and Ohio path to<a>Pittsburgh, PA<\/a>, for a reception and<br \/>\nsend-off before it is then passed off and carried by another rider to<br \/>\nthe next destination. \u00a0This sequence repeats itself in eight more<br \/>\nmajor cities on its way to us, where it will, once again, be read in<br \/>\nmy opening remarks that kick off the Santa Cruz NBG Fest.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, I believe that this could be a great promotion for both<br \/>\nof our cities. \u00a0Can the City of Santa Cruz look to you for support?<br \/>\nThe relay will begin near the end of May, and the NBG group has a lot<br \/>\nof coordination to do in the interim, so your timely response is much<br \/>\nneeded and appreciated. \u00a0Thank you in advance for your consideration<br \/>\nof this request.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nChristopher Krohn<br \/>\nMayor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many hours of pretty focused map work, we now have a coast-to-coast route for the\u00a0San Francisco to\u00a0Washington, DC\u00a0greenway we&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/08\/09\/coast-to-coast-nbg-routed-2002-santa-cruz-to-dc-visualization\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,34,47,51],"tags":[50,49,48],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mayors-ride","category-nbg-route","category-santa-cruz","category-washington-dc","tag-anthony-williams","tag-chris-krohn-dc-mayor","tag-santa-cruz-mayor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-la","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9049,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/02\/09\/nbg-biking-cities-90-complete\/","url_meta":{"origin":1312,"position":0},"title":"NBG Biking Cities 90% Complete.","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"February 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"HERE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0are the 18 cities that anchor our route from San Francisco to Washington, DC. 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