The ride highlighted the bio-diversity of the untouched landscape that would host Enbridge's preferred route, and which would avoid highways, keeping the pipeline out of sight and out of mind.
At the end of the week they'll get a mini-video edit of their riding highlights, which is included in the price as are lessons, use of Burton boards, accommodation, transfers and half board.
The last three days of riding highlighted just how diverse La Route Verte can be.
Mr. Bloomberg used the bus ride to highlight his contention that without revenue from congestion pricing, it would be hard to expand the program or design similar ones.
Janine Bauer, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a mass transit advocacy group, said that the mall park-and-ride dispute highlighted several crucial transportation policy issues.
And for almost two hours, she takes us on a whirlwind ride through its highlights, aided and abetted by a full band and three nimble-footed backing singers, the Staggering Harlettes.
While this new exhibition at the Children's Museum of Manhattan captures some of the fun of carnival rides, it also highlights the physics that make them possible.
We completed our law-breaking journey with a sense that our taxi ride was indeed the highlight of the trip, and our driver upheld the reputation that the taxi drivers in New York are always ready for adventure.
Some might call this empty lip-service to Earth Day, which takes place today and probably would be better served by Google powering down a server farm or two for a few hours, but the concepts highlighted (including ride sharing, composting, energy conservation and diet modification) are solid ones and would have genuinely beneficial ecological effects if adopted by large portions of the community.
Keith Miller of Funworld Magazine described the ride as "wonderfully smooth" highlighting the slow cresting of the lift hill as an "enjoyable element".
