Friday, April 10, 2009

Chicago 2016 - Velodrome Part of Park Legacy?

If Chicago gets the Olympic bid this October, we will potentially be able to boast of a world class, permanent indoor velodrome within the city limits. Unfortunately not everyone shares our enthusiasm for track cycling.

From Chicago Public Radio's coverage of a Chicago Park Legacy forum (full coverage here)
TRANTER: The legacy projects as they currently proposed are going to be harmful to the parks. A velodrome in Douglas Park - I mean who is going to use - number one, no one uses a velodrome in the city of Chicago.


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Why not state your belief in person? There will be additional meetings (thanks Jeff for informing us):
Douglas Park meeting April 21 @ 5:30p.
Washington Park meeting is April 18 @ 9a.

If anyone knows the locations of the meetings let me know and I'll update the blog.

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