Tour de Brooklyn 2007

Speaker: [00:00] I pledge allegiance to the Tour de Brooklyn forever more. Brooklyn rocks.

Speaker: [00:06] Brooklyn is the best borough on the planet.

Marty Markowitz: [00:08] Brooklyn is bike country. For those of you that live in Brooklyn, hello Brooklyn.

Speaker: [00:14] Are you ready? Let’s go. A one and a two.

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Speaker: [00:31] We’re going to see a lot of nice spots of Brooklyn and a few of the streets with interesting bodegas and places to stop.

Speaker: [00:40] Go Brooklyn.

Noah Budnick: [00:42] It’s going to be a nice hot day. It’s going to be a beautiful day to ride. Make sure you drink water so you don’t get dehydrated. We all make it back here to Prospect Park.

Marty Markowitz: [00:50] Today you’re going to be visiting some of Brooklyn’s most beautiful neighbourhoods. [unintelligible 00:55] Cross, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, Fort Hamilton, Greenwood Heights and Flatbush.

Janette Sadik-Khan: [01:02] This is a great opportunity for recreation and it’s great to see you all out here, but cycling is also the backbone of our city’s transportation network and we need to do more to find ways to build out our transportation infrastructure to include biking.

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Speaker: [01:19] The Tour de Brooklyn, it’s French.

Speaker: [01:23] Good morning, welcome to Tour de Brooklyn. I’m here to help.

Speaker: [01:25] Bikes taking over the roads.

Speaker: [01:28] Yeah.

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Speaker: [01:32] A beautiful day, a great day. Love it, love the ride.

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Janette Sadik-Khan: [01:42] Great exercise, you’ve got a great city view. You get to be in this great community.

Speaker: [01:48] A great event to celebrate all that Brooklyn is and all the wonderful people in Brooklyn and you couldn’t get a more friendly place for bicyclists, pedestrians and communities to ride.

Speaker: [01:57] I’m so psyched.

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Speaker: [02:05] It’s very good for your legs, and it’s not so hard really. We’re ready to ride.

Speaker: [02:09] Quite ready. Been ready for months, been looking forward to it.

Speaker: [02:13] Coming down 9^th Street after I made that left turn, I could look up the hill and it was just covered with bikes.

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Speaker: [02:20] It’s good man. Loving this ride. It’s a perfect day, not too hot, not too cold.

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Speaker: [02:29] Cos I love Brooklyn.

Speaker: [02:31] I think it’s the coolest thing.

Speaker: [02:33] Nice day. You can see some new neighbourhoods.

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Speaker: [02:38] All of those that are not here today should be here. This is the event.

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Speaker: [02:45] Welcome to Brooklyn, yay.

Speaker: [02:47] A whole new world has opened up to me about Brooklyn. I’m actually in love with where I live. The people have been amazing, the marshals rock. I mean the weather, you know, it’s perfect.

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Janette Sadik-Khan: [02:59] This is a commute in Denmark, you’d see this on a rush hour basis, you’d see all these bicycles coming through like that. So we’re not there yet, but we’re trying.

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