Janelle Brooks discovered Slow Roll Buffalo on a Monday evening in 2015 while sitting in traffic, waiting for dozens of bicyclists to ride through a city intersection.
Two deaths during the last three weeks in Buffalo in which drivers crashed into bicyclists have sent ripples through a cycling community whose leaders say the city needs to bring greater attention to biking safety.
“You get this many people out on a Monday?” she asked a Slow Roll squad member. “He said, ‘Yes, every Monday,’ and gave me a schedule.”
Brooks, an educator who started biking a couple of years earlier, has since been on pretty much every Monday night ride, buoyed by the health benefits Slow Roll brings, but also its deeper mission.
“We are an organization that is truly about connecting people, places and causes, and bicycles are the vehicle that we use to do that,” said Brooks, president of the Slow Roll Buffalo Board of Directors.
She will help launch the nonprofit’s 10th community bicycle season at 6:30 p.m. Monday with a 10-mile ride that starts and ends in Niagara Square.
The first of 27 consecutive Monday night journeys will include two stops: Central Terminal, the first stop on the first ride in 2014, and Johnson Park, where riders will hear from friends with Slow…
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