Winners will be announced June 7th in the Union Rider and on this website. To celebrate Bike Month and the awesomeness of the cycling community in Boston, the Union is hosting a photo competition! The theme is Spokes in the Hub. This is open to interpretation and could include: Your beautiful bike. A wicked hot…

By Pete Stidman Charlestown cyclists were shocked when the neighborhood’s first bike lanes were promptly erased last fall, but they received some better news earlier this month when the Charlestown Neighborhood Council made a rare reversal and voted for re-installing them! The city took note of this decision, and before the end of the year…

By Pete Stidman In an 18-month public Boston Transportation Department process that concluded last year, community members chose a “surface option” that would remake Sullivan Square into a grid of streets that help reconnect Somerville, Charlestown, and the “Lost Village” of Charlestown, an area that was physically cut off from Charlestown by the Expressway, for…

By Pete Stidman While bikeways raise controversy in some parts of town, some residents in the North End are calling the City of Boston’s new plan for a “hybrid” of cycletrack and bike lane on Commercial St. and Atlantic Avenue a “no-brainer.” Boston Bikes’ Nicole Freedman and the city’s consultant Toole Design Group presented the…

The following is a press release issued by the League of American Bicyclists. Washington, DC – April 30, 2011 – The League of American Bicyclists announced the latest round of Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) designations today to kick off May as National Bike Month. This was one of the strongest groups of applicants we’ve seen…