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…

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 likely sparking economic development and helping out businesses on Hyde Park Avenue! Secretary of Transportation Rich Davey informed legislators and others…

The Boston Cyclists Union is helping out with the state’s second try at a highly competitive TIGER grant that could fund the completion of the Neponset Greenway (a.k.a. Dorchester Coast Trail, The Missing Link), and this time Governor Deval Patrick’s administration is putting their weight fully behind it. (You can help too by writing a…

This year’s Boston Bikes Update was a big hit. Nicole Freedman, the city’s bike czar, spoke to a packed house of over 400 people at the Central Library last week and talked up the city’s accomplishments making Boston a better biking city, including 142,000 Hubway bike-share trips in 2011, over 1,000 bikes donated to low-income…

Roxbury residents spoke up for traffic-calming measures last month at a public meeting to discuss the full reconstruction of Seaver Street by the Public Works Department, and a handful of Boston Cyclists Union members described their own problems with the street, including a notorious blind curve heading toward Blue Hill Avenue amidst high-speed traffic. The…

Many of you have been following our coverage of the super mega path we’ve been working on completing with other advocates and organizations that will stretch along the Dorchester Coast and Neponset River from South Boston all the way to the Readville in Hyde Park, just a stone’s throw from the Blue Hills Reservation. Like…

By Anne Lusk, Ph.D. The Casey Overpass has been discussed in the community based on moving traffic of all kinds, livability, aesthetics, personal preferences, and a variety of other motivations. If we can accept that both the bridge and at-grade options move traffic in similar ways, as traffic engineering models have shown us, personal preferences…

By Patrick Kelleher-Calnan Most of the Boston Cyclists Union’s volunteers are highly visible all summer fixing thousands of bikes, handing out helmets, and getting people involved in community planning processes all over the city, but there are a few you never see who happen to be responsible for how it all looks. They are the…