The Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival features: free bike checkups & valet, Green Car show, wine and beer garden, live music, food vendors, a kids' area with hands on activities and 2oo+ exhibitors.
Come to Earth Day 2009 car free, then stop by the Santa Barbara Car Free/Air Pollution Control District booth and enter to win prizes, including pairs of Amtrak Pacific Surfliner tickets and the Grand Prize, round-trip tickets for two including roomette accommodations from Santa Barbara to Portland or Seattle on the Amtrak Coast Starlight!
Bike:
- To plan your route, check out the online bike maps at www.trafficsolutions.info. Try linking up with the oceanfront bicycle path along Cabrillo Boulevard, or the bike lanes on Bath, Castillo and State Streets.
- FREE Community bike rides to to Earth Day from several locations including UCSB and Carpinteria.
- FREE valet bike parking at the Corner of Santa Barbara & Sola Streets, provided by Bici Centro.
- Get a FREE bike check up from local bike mechanics, provided by the Santa Barbara Bike Coalition.
Bus:
- Free Buses from all over town stop at the MTD Transit Center. From there you can either walk to Alameda Park (5 blocks) or take Line 2 to Santa Barbara Street (walk 2 blocks), or Lines 6 or 11 to State and Sola (walk 1 block).
- The electric shuttle also stops near Alameda Park.
- Earth Day’s location makes it easy to get to without a car.
- Alameda Park is only a 30 or 40-minute walk from the Mesa, Upper State Street, or Milpas Street, and can be easily reached from lower downtown and the harbor either entirely on foot or with help from the MTD Downtown/Waterfront shuttle.
- Lace up your walking shoes and get some exercise while you make this a car-free day!
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