I-69 News

Bike tour along the finalized route

• Posted by i69news on April 23rd, 2007 filed in Upcoming Events

We also just received word of a new bike tour along the finalized/proposed route. Hopefully this will go well for the folks in Roadblock EF! and SMASH I-69.

BIKE TOUR MAY 7th-13th

Roadblock Earth First! and SMASH I-69 will be hosting a energetic 6
day bike tour of southern Indiana, starting May 7th and continuing
until the 13th. I-69, a.k.a. “the NAFTA superhighway”, is purposed to
run from Indianapolis to Evansville in Indiana, though eventually
from the Michigan/Canada border to the Texas border with Mexico
where it will link up with Plan Puebla Panama infrastructure.

The bike tour will leave Bloomington, Indiana and will ride
southward as close to the proposed I-69 route as possible. The tour
will stop in towns and camp along the route, getting to know the
land and the people that will be negatively affected by this road
project.

The tour will cover around 90 miles, ending at the begning of the
proposed route at the intersection of Interstate 64 and 164 in
Gibson county. The tour group will meet with community activists in
southern Indiana and share tactics and strategies for effectively
resisting the road.

For those interested and who live within an easy traveling distance
of Bloomington, there will be a planning meeting in Meeting Room 1A
of the Monroe County Public Library at 7pm on Wednesday, April 25th.

Participants who have extra time are planning on staying in
southern Indiana to carry out a listening project, where those
whose land and homes will be destroyed will be visited in order to
collect their stories of resistance as well as share tactics and
strategies.

Roadblock Earth First! and SMASH I-69 invite all of those who want
to participate to join us in Bloomington for a fun filled week of
biking, camping, and road resistance. For more information, email
garlicisgreat@hushmail.com.