Benefits Of Biking Into Ithaca
To drive a car into Ithaca takes something around 20 minutes. To ride a bicycle that distance down route 96 takes something more like an hour. So, why would anyone choose the bicycling option?
There’s the benefit of the exercise, of course, and the savings of a couple dollars worth of gasoline. If we’re ethically minded, we might note that riding the bicycle avoids putting a good amount of pollution into the air, keeps carbon emissions down, and withholds a bit of profit from oil companies engaged in offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
At a more animalistic level, however, there’s the benefit of yummy, yummy ice cream.
This morning’s Ithaca Journal briefly notes that Bicycle Benefits has come to Ithaca. It’s a system in which a person joins by purchasing a five dollar sticker at a participating business. That sticker, which you put on your bike helmet, acts as a coupon entitling you to discounts, as high as 50 percent in some locations. Purity Ice Cream is participating. So is the Ithaca Bakery, Mate Factor, GreenStar, Taste of Thai, Buffalo Street Books, Autumn Leaves… You get the idea.
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