{"id":16072,"date":"2021-06-21T07:16:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=16072"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:58:35","slug":"coast-to-coast-map-at-ride-with-gps-shows-why-the-national-bicycle-greenway-is-centered-around-indianapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2021\/06\/21\/coast-to-coast-map-at-ride-with-gps-shows-why-the-national-bicycle-greenway-is-centered-around-indianapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast-to-Coast Map at Ride with GPS Shows Why Indianapolis is the Center of the National Bicycle Greenway"},"content":{"rendered":"

New National Bicycle Greenway map at Ride with GPS<\/strong> communicates the importance of Indianapolis to connecting the coasts with our bike way. <\/span>Just as I show in my book, “How<\/span> Indianapolis Built America”<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, how Indianapolis played an outsized part in settling the West, our bike route across the USA shows how Indianapolis, the Greenway Capital of America, will impregnate the rest of this Nation with its Greenway consciousness..<\/span><\/p>\n

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Toward that end, it shows why Indianapolis really is the Crossroads of America. And not just for cars. What better way to send and receive cyclists than from the Greenway Capital of America?<\/span><\/div>\n

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Like spokes on a wheel, the lines that radiate in from Nashville, Detroit, Louisville, Atlanta and St. Louis, will bring cyclists to Indy before they head up to Chicago and the rest of the National Bicycle Greenway.<\/span><\/div>\n

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For this, there is historic president. It is how in the late 1800s the West was settled from the East. All train travel then, passed through Indianapolis on the way to Chicago and then California.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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