Racing Through Town at Rush Hour
Walk/Bike Nashville teamed up with Trevecca Nazarene University and the
Veloteers Bicycle Club for the 3rd Annual Great Commuter Race. For the third
year in a row, the bicyclist blew the competition away, proving that the
automobile does not work all that well in the central city during the morning
rush hour. The participants who raced a roughly 4 mile course from Trevecca to
the Bicentennial Mall were allowed to choose their own route so long as they
followed all traffic laws.
Trevecca faculty member Don Kintner won the race while the finish line was
still being set up. Trevecca students Billy Byler and Tim Shay completed a 4
mile run in just under 30 minutes, only 8 minutes after driver William Anderson
arrived. Sally Robertson, a Veloteers Bicycle Club member finished the route by
taking the bus with her bike and then riding the final leg to the Bicentennial
Mall in just over 44 minutes. The MTA bus at Trevecca was delayed due to a
traffic jam on Murfreesboro Rd. If the race started one minute earlier, the bus
rider would have immediately boarded the bus and reduced her time by about 20
minutes. Robertson, a Mt. Juliet resident, frequently uses her bike and a MTA
bus to travel to Nashville Tech in West Nashville.
Results
11:40 Bicyclist
21:55 Driver
29:10 Runner