1,000 Bike to Folk Fest

Getting to and from the Newport Folk Festival can be the one downside to the three-day music festival.

And with record crowds this year, the traffic in and out of Newport was particularly rough, especially with a number of construction projects ongoing in the city.

But, according to Bike Newport, one tenth of the people going to the festival anticipated traffic woes and avoided stop-and-go headaches by planting their feet on the pedals.

“Bike Newport provided bike parking for more than 1,000 cyclists at the Newport Folk Festival,” Liza Burkin, program manager said.

And every spot was filled.

With 10,000 attendees each day, the 1,000 bikes parked along the waterfront represented 10 percent of the total crowd.

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Photo by: Liza Burkin