Due to the scheduling of the English Premier League soccer game in St. Louis on May 23, we are rescheduling the GREAT RACE for Thursday, May 30 to accomodate many of our media participants.
Designed to play off the CBS television hit, “The Amazing Race,” the race will place Team TRANSIT, Team BIKE, Team CARSHARE and Team CARPOOL in a head-to-head competition to see which transportation mode can travel from downtown St. Louis to Clayton the fastest.
The race is set for Thursday, May 30. It will get underway at approximately 4:30 p.m. at the Laurel Apartments, 622 North 7th Street (corner of Lucas Ave. and 7th Street), St. Louis, MO 63101 in Downtown St. Louis, Mo., and finish at the Fortel’s Pizza Den located at 7359 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63105 with a community celebration.
Below are the confirmed participants to date and their corresponding teams. Please note that these teams are being added to regularly and we have a couple exciting additions we hope to be able to announce soon!
We have created a Facebook page for Citizens for Modern Transit’s Great Race II. It can be accessed at www.Facebook.com/GreatRaceII. To help gain support , we invite you to “like” the page, “comment” on it and “share” the page with your family, friends, colleagues and constituents. Urge them to get in on the action by cheering on their respective ‘teams’ through the Facebook page and encourage them to come celebrate with you at the starting point and finish line.
There is also a t-shirt design contest you can take part in and a poll to track which team is leading in terms of community support.
We would like to extend a special thank you to all of our sponsors, including the St. Louis Regional Clean Air Partnership, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Metro, Great Rivers Greenway, RideFinders, STL Style. The Laurel, St. CLair County Transit District and the Fortel’s Pizza Den in University City/Clayton.
Thanks again for your support. This event is going to be GREAT!
Team CARSHARE
Rosalind Early from St. Louis Magazine
Don Corrigan from the South County Times
Representatives from Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Team TRANSIT
Heidi Glaus of KSDK News Ch. 5
Kevin the Intern from the Phillips & Company Morning Show on Y98
Riz from the KNPT Morning Show
Representatives from Citizens for Modern Transit
Representative from the St. Louis Regional Clean Air Partnership
Representatives from Metro
Representatives from STL Style
Representatives from Fortel’s Pizza Den
Representatives from the City of St. Louis
Representative from The Hauser Group
Team BIKE
Kevin Steincross from Fox 2 News
Todd Morgan from K-Hits 96
Representatives from Great Rivers Greenway
Representative from the St. Louis County Economic Council
Team VANPOOL
Diana Zoga of KMOV Ch. 4
Lindsay Toler from Patch.com
Representatives from RideFinders
Representative from The Hauser Group