{"id":11683,"date":"2025-07-21T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11683\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:24:08","slug":"buffalo-skyride-2025-1500-cyclists-take-over-the-skyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11683\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo SkyRide 2025: 1,500 cyclists take over the Skyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,500 cyclists overtook Buffalo Skyway for the 11th annual SkyRide to promote cycling and safer streets.<\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Cyclists took over the Buffalo Skyway, and even part of the 190, early Sunday event.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/traffic\/skyride-closures\/71-c0c965e5-67fc-4bc2-9337-0be261f9214f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">11th annual SkyRide<\/a> was hosted by GoBike Buffalo. More than 1,500 riders pedaled 13 miles through Lackawanna, downtown Buffalo, and the Outer Harbor for a good cause. The goal aims to promote cycling, advocate for safer streets, and help build a more connected community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying to build a healthier community first of all,&#8221; Kevin Heffernan, deputy director of GoBike Buffalo, told 2 On Your Side. &#8220;You are getting your exercise in but also a more connected community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t build a safe community and a strong community behind windshields and keyboards. You do it when people are out walking, biking, and saying hello to each other, and that&#8217;s what people here stand for, and that&#8217;s the kind of city and region they want to see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The SkyRide is also GoBike&#8217;s biggest fundraiser of the year. The ride ended at Terminal B with a celebration party.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1,500 cyclists overtook Buffalo Skyway for the 11th annual SkyRide to promote cycling and safer streets.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-11683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}