Boston City TV, MA Boston Bikes, 17 Oct 2016

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From YouTube: TD Hub on Wheels Citywide Bike Ride 2016

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Mayor Walsh welcomes over 4,500 registered riders to the 12th annual Hub on Wheels, the largest sporting event produced by the city and the signature event of the Mayor's Boston Bikes initiative. The ride starts at City Hall Plaza and takes participants all across the many neighborhoods of Boston.

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You all know that Boston has come a long way, but unfortunately, in Boston has across the country. The drop at gasoline prices is meant, there's been a lot more driving and there's been a really horrid.

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This uptick in the number of pedestrians and bicyclists and people pushing baby carriages and on wheelchairs who've been hitting Boston luckily has adopted a vision, zero campaign and we're lucky that mayor Marty Walsh has announced the city is going to be moving forward in trying to be create a situation where we have zero heavy interest, injuries or fatalities, which then gives me the pleasure to introduce our mayor, Marty Walsh.

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Thank you very much see how's everyone doing today. This is absolutely incredible. Just looking down seeing all the bicycles here, I want to thank you and welcome to city. If it's your first time doing this ride enjoy it's a great day. The weather is going to hold off it's going to rain later on, which is perfect, it'll rain for the Patriots game. Don't worry about that. Garoppolo will be fine.

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I want to watch just get a few things out of the way, because to put something like this together, you need a lot of people and without steam mill. Oh, we wouldn't be here so I want to thank Steve for all this great stuff for coming up with this great great great idea.

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I also want to thank TD, Bank, Thank, You, Tina bank Marion Colombo's here with I, said what thank Tina bank and all of the riders in the teeny bag on the front row here, they're going to set the pace really fast, so they're going to be out there so I want to thank you very much. We're also joined today by dr. Marsha Moses from Children's Hospital. We are a lot of this. Some of this money is going to go to research, a children's to doc the most.

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I want to thank her for the great work that childrens huntsville does the greatest children huntsville in the world is right here in Boston, Thank, You, Don and Steve's talked about our vision, zero policy and the person who's leading spearheading that for us is our chief of streets is going to be riding today, Chris Lars good, I like to say thank you to Chris are as good air, and also just a couple of thing is the Department of Conservation recreation, because you will be going on to state roads, it won't all just be city roads, the Boston Transportation Department, the Boston bike teams, Department the special events, department and I just want to just wish you all a great race.

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We are doing more in biking in this city than we ever have before we're doing more bike lanes dedicated bike lanes. We still have a long way to go, but we're working every single day to make sure that the cyclist in our city can say that Boston is the city. It should be one of the best cyclic cities in America, we're not there, yet we have a way to go, but we're working towards and I want to thank, in particular the bike community.

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That's here today for pushing us and continually pushing us to make sure we do the right thing. So thank you and have a great race.

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As the mayor knows, we're quite happy to keep pushing so now. I want to introduce Marion Columbo, we've shared the stage for a number of years. Now it's a pleasure to have you back she's a TD Bank market president.

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Thanks T, thank you. Thank you so much on behalf of TD Bank and all our amazing employees in New England. We thank you for coming out today and supporting the TD hub on wheels and Boston Children's Hospital. Together we have raised thousands to support pediatric cancer research at Boston Children's, and this is only in year one. What an accomplishment I would also like to say thank you to our amazing team that helped put together today's event and a special thanks for mayor Walsh and all the team that put together the TD hub on wheels.

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So thanks again for coming out this morning, please avoid safely and we'll see you back at City, Hall plaza for a fun post-ride party be sure to stop by the TD Bank tent for a special photo enjoy the ride enjoy the day.

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Thank You Marion, so you may not know, but five dollars from every one of your registrations went to Children's Hospital this year and there was an invitation to do a little bit more to go out and raise some extra money. There is a person who really took that seriously and I want to pull forward and thank a person Howard needle, but Needleman raised six thousand dollars come on up out there there come here, you get to smile right in the front. Here we go okay, my pleasure.

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He's got to get back on the bike: okay, good, but where the money goes, is research and care for kids. Some of us used to be kids. Many of us have kids or grandkids, so I want to introduce dr. Marsha Moses who's, Boston Children's Hospital lead pediatric cancer researcher Marcia. Please come on.

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Thanks Steve good morning, everyone I'm really happy to be here because it gives me the opportunity to thank you all personally on behalf of boston children's hospital and the folkman research institute.

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So the folk minh institute is the cancer centric piece of boston, children's hospital research, it's composed of 15 different laboratories and we're all working to understand how pediatric cancers begin and how they progress, and what we're doing is we're taking that information and we're developing non-toxic targeted therapies for these kids with cancer and we're also developing non-invasive tests so that we can detect cancer much earlier and treat it much better than we have in the past and I don't have to tell you that what we learn from studying, pediatric cancer is probably applicable to adult cancers as well, so on behalf of Boston Children's and the folkman Institute.

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Thank you all so much for what you're doing today, as a result of this, will be able to work smarter and faster and better to putting an end to pediatric cancers. So thank you have a wonderful ride. Thank you.

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You thank you so much so we want to go over one more time. A couple of pointers. Number one don't ride too close to the person in front of you.

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Second stop at intersections obey traffic laws when you're on the road. A lot of the ride is off road or closed roads, but some of it this is a city, is on the road. We try to have volunteers or police at each of those intersections. If they're there do what they say, they're, not there be smart, okay, I guess that was the first rule. Don't be stupid, okay, so we're back to the second rules.

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Don't push yourself if you're getting tired, take a break if it's too steep a hill feel free to walk. I have walked a couple of hills between the Berkshires in Boston, it's okay to do so in about two minutes. No we're at five minutes we're going to take off, and we don't have a big countdown thing here, but the mayor is going to come forward in a couple minutes and we'll do a countdown hydrate drink. Don't worry about salt and fat today you can eat anything. You want okay, mr. mayor, will you help me.

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Have a great ride.

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