Health & Fitness
Citizens for Modern Transit's Great Race is right around the corner - which team are you supporting?
CMT's Great Race will place Team TRANSIT, Team BIKE, Team CARSHARE and Team CARPOOL in a head-to-head competition to see which mode can travel from downtown St. Louis to Clayton the fastest.
Designed to play off the CBS television hit, “The Amazing Race,” Citizens for Modern Transit's Great 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. with Mayor Slay kicking off the race, and finish at the Fortel’s Pizza Den located at 7359 Forsyth Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105 with a community Finish Line celebration.
The Great Race is an opportunity to spotlight many of the alternative modes of transportation available in St. Louis for the work commute or for play. The race provides the opportunity to spotlight just a few of the many benefits of trying something new for a commute - the health benefits, the monetary benefits, and the social benefits!
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The teams are growing with more and more St. Louis media celebrities and others getting on board. TEAM TRANSIT members like Riz from THE POINT have been out and about ‘training’ for the event! Below are the confirmed participants to date and their corresponding teams. Please note that these teams are being added to regularly!
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. Come out to the Finish Line event beginning at 5 p.m. at Fortel's in Clayton.
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Special Thanks to all of our sponsors, including the St. Louis Regional Clean Air Partnership, Enterprise Carshare, Metro, Great Rivers Greenway, RideFinders, STL Style, The Laurel, St. Clair County Transit District and the Fortel’s Pizza Den in University City/Clayton.
Check out some of our team participants including the Patch's own Lindsey Toler!
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