Remembering How We Got Here

Celebrating Our Strength and Impact by REMEMBERING HOW WE GOT HERE

2014 The Bike Más Project launches at Traverse Heights Elementary Bike trains expand Vasa Domingos begins

2016 Traverse City Summer Bike Camp begins with one session Pro Walk/Pro Bike Advocacy committee is founded El Liderato Youth Leadership Council forms

2018 Wheelhouse opens Amigos, our program for kids with special needs, begins The Solution, a bike mechanics education series, begins $4.5 million bond to accelerate sidewalk building mostly in the Traverse Heights neighborhood is approved First Advocate Academy “More Girls on Bikes” initiative begins

2013 Norte is founded with one bike train to Eastern Elementary in Traverse City

2015 Kids Bike Library launches Farmers Market Bike Valet TC Rides gets started Estrellas Balance Bike begins as a summertime meet up at F&M Park

2017 Winter Walk Wednesdays begin Clubhouse opens with Community Bike Shop Estrellas Balance Bike grows to 15 area schools Expand to Elk Rapids and Northport

2019 Expand to Kalkaska and Suttons Bay Two safer crosswalk signals installed on the Grandview Parkway Revisioned 8th Street with northern Michigan’s first protected bike lane Explore Academy starts Grand Traverse Regional Youth Mountain Bike Team grows to become largest youth mountain bike team in the state of Michigan Kids Bike Library grows to 160 bikes