FIRST: Bicycle Friendly Community in Connecticut - Simsbury, CT
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A monument with a plaque celebrates Simsbury as the first bicycle friendly community in Connecticut. The monument is located at the intersection of Hopmeadow St., Route 202, and Winslow St. in Simsbury, CT.
Waymark Code: WM15VYV
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 03/05/2022
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The trapazoid shaped metal monument is decorated with bicycle gears and has an attached aluminum plaque which is inscribed in part:
Simsbury Bikes!
Celebrating Simbury as the First Bicycle Friendly Community in
Connecticut, designated in 2010 by the league of American Bicyclists.
Made Possible by the Children and Adult Mobility Project
Next to the monument is a larger-than life size, metal, bicycle sculpture fabricated by Vicente Garcia. The sculpture commemorates the designation of Simsbury as Connecticut's first bicycle friendly community and doubles as a bicycle tender that can accommodate 20 bicycles.
In 2012 Simsbury received a Silver-level Bicycle Friendly Community designation from the League of American Bicyclists.
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