A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine this week indicates that both brisk walking and bicycling are likely to make significant contributions to controlling weight gain in premenopausal women—but slow walking not so much. “This helps make the case that we need better separated bike facilities in the U.S. because bicycling is…

Working with Bikes Not Bombs and the city’s Boston Bikes program, the Boston Cyclists Union is proud to announce a new program that directly helps cyclists. Huge swaths of the city, such as Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, and Eastie, are not served by bike repair shops. This makes it difficult for some folks to dust off…

After adopting a BCU suggestion to design a cycletrack for a future Western Avenue, and receiving a rough sketch of how a cycletrack might work on Cambridge Street in Allston, the Boston Transportation Department (BTD) has invited the BCU to collaborate on these and one other improvement in the neighborhood: completing the North Harvard Street…

Working with Artists For Humanity in South Boston and funded by the City of Boston, high school students Joshua Rosado, Victor Torres and Cameron Akeredolu won a contest sponsored by Mission Hill Main Streets to install three bike racks at Brigham Circle. One resembles a giant padlock and two others have abstract designs. The three…

The next few weeks should see a flurry of repaving activity on JP’s bike highway, the South West Corridor. The Department of Conservation and Recreation has been sprucing it up to honor the path’s 20th anniversary. “There’s this big fuzzball about maybe they can do everything we marked, or maybe they can do more than…

Many of you have surely noticed that Talbot Avenue is being repaved this week. Suspense is building up in anticipation of the first bike lanes in any neighborhood of color in the city and the first win for the BCU and a passel of neighborhood groups! But hold your horses, there’s still more work to…

New York City’s Clarence Eckerson Jr. was up in Boston for Bike Week and shot this nice bit on Boston’s progress so far. Nice to see our city featured as an example of better biking isn’t it? Here’s to many many more! A lot of the folks hanging out with Nicole in this short are…