A young parishioner helps out at last year's Blessing of the Bikes in Jamaica Plain.

It’s that time of year again, and Boston’s bike scene is exploding. All hands on deck this week as Boston’s bike scene comes together in all its variety to cash in on free pancakes, free bike repair, free talks, races, [...]

The new second option. The city's consultant on the project said the difference between northbound and southbound traffic is due to thousands of suburbanites ducking the tolls on the Tobin Bridge.

In a new development in the debate over the Sullivan Square Rutherford Avenue reconstruction project, the city unveiled a new option to build an [...]

Boston's new interim bike coordinator, Kristopher Carter.

As the city makes its way through the first month without Nicole Freedman leading Boston Bikes, there is good news about the prospects for her replacement and the long-term institutionalization of the bike behemoth she created.

At a meeting between key bike advocates, Mayor Thomas Menino, interim bike coordinator [...]

Charlestown, Somerville and Jamaica Plain are all in the process of reclaiming parts of their neighborhoods from large hunks of highway-like infrastructure from the 1950s. Namely, the Sullivan Square underpass, the Casey Overpass, and the McGrath Highway. Each plan for a new system of at-grade roadways promises to bring back neighborhoods long given over to [...]

By Pete Stidman

Boston Bikes Coordinator Nicole Freedman at one of her finest moments, the Hubway bike share launch in 2011.

Boston’s bike coordinator Nicole Freedman, now on her way to new opportunities, is a powerhouse. Her energy and ability has helped transform the Boston bike scene and bring several city agencies into the bicycle way [...]

By Patrick Kelleher-Calnan

“Businesses aren’t really hiring right now,” said Josh Danoff, part owner of the bike-based food vendor Culinary Cruisers, “but I’m looking to hire about ten people in the next month or so.”

Culinary Cruisers is christening three new popsicle tricycles this summer.

The company, founded by Danoff and his sister Leah Danoff[b] last July, [...]

The concept that bicyclists will not affect real change until they all follow the law was shot full of holes in Brookline this week when a group of residents used that logic to petition for a warrant article that would require Town Meeting approval for the creation of contraflow bicycle lanes.

Currently, such lanes would be [...]

To counter new tactics that are aimed at obstructing or delaying the planning process,  Boston Cyclists Union is calling a mobilization of all pedestrians, business owners, transit users, park users, cyclists and other supporters of the at-grade plan this week in order to defend the state’s decision to rebuild the Casey at-grade. Most importantly, everyone [...]

An early draft of the at-grade solution for Casey Overpass. Note the two-acre park at the end of the SW Corridor.

Congratulations to all of our volunteers, collaborating organizations and JP’s vibrant neighborhood activist community, Forest Hills will become more inviting to pedestrians and bicyclists, re-uniting the neighborhood with the rest of Jamaica Plain and [...]

A joint ride between DotBike, BNAN, and the Boston Cyclists Union in 2011, passing through part of the existing section of the trail at Pope John Paul II Park in Dorchester. Many other neighborhood groups and individuals are also involved in pushing for its completion.

The Boston Cyclists Union is helping out with the state’s [...]