Archive for March 2012
Action Still Needed on Casey Overpass: Crucial Meeting Thursday March 29
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…
Read MoreBreaking News: Casey Overpass to be rebuilt at-grade
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…
Read MoreState to go for TIGER IV grant on coastal greenway, Governor Patrick makes trail a priority
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…
Read MoreBoston Bikes Update and the question of enforcement
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…
Read MoreSeaver Street becomes focal point
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…
Read MoreLetter writing time again for the Neponset/Dorchester Coast Greenway
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…
Read MoreHighway Bridge vs Social Bridges
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…
Read MoreCreative volunteers pull eyeballs to the Union
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…
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