The Tour de Troit is a bike ride that explores some of the city’s historic areas, takes in many of its most breathtaking sights, and provides bicyclists a unique opportunity to legally “take over” the streets of the Motor City. The 2012 TdT attracted a record number of cyclists — 5,000! — and helped to fund planning, development, administration and wayfinding for the Southwest Detroit Greenlink, a series of bike lanes and off-road pathways that connect the neighborhoods of Southwest Detroit to each other and to the Detroit River. The first phase of the project was completed in 2011.