Bike Chattanooga Celebrates 5 Years Of Bike Share

  • Thursday, July 20, 2017
The City of Chattanooga’s Bike Chattanooga Bicycle Transit System invites the public to help celebrate its fifth year of operations in the Scenic City with a celebratory bike ride next Wednesday starting at 5:30 p.m. from the Wheland Foundry Riverpark Trailhead to their 6-7 p.m celebration at the Blue Goose Hollow Riverpark Trailhead.
 
"The community is invited to join Bike Chattanooga as we ride from the Bike Chattanooga Wheland Foundary station to the Blue Goose Hollow Trailhead for pizza, refreshments, top rider rewards, and membership discounts.
 Bike Chattanooga will have a limited number of bikes available at Wheland Foundary for those that want to join the group ride to Blue Goose Hollow.  For those that want to skip the group ride, join us from 6-7 p.m. at Blue Goose Hollow to celebrate turning five and our many accomplishments since launch.  The first 50 to renew or signup for an annual membership at the July 26 celebration will get $25 off," officials said.  
 
Birthday Milestones since July 23, 2012 Launch:
•          37 Stations 
•          242,000 Trips Taken
•          1,013,220 Miles Traveled
•          3,387 Annual Members
•          103,796 Casual Members
•          43,568,460 Calories Burned

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