Boston’s bike culture is expanding in all directions, and one of the services other cities around the country have that hasn’t made it to Boston just yet is the “Bike Kitchen.” A Bike Kitchen is an open bike workshop that anyone can come in and use or rent to fix up their ride. The Community…

Alarmist flyers decrying the elimination of “all parking” on one side of the street have appeared on telephone poles and car windshields along Beacon Street in Somerville–in a clear attempt to raise ire in the neighborhood against the city’s plan for a cycletrack. The flyer calls residents to arms and to a meeting this Monday,…

Boston’s bike community will be the first to tell you that helmets are a good idea. Over the last few weeks, however, a large part of that community, including virtually all of its leaders, is up in arms over an advertisement that is meant to get more people wearing helmets. Seem odd? The ads are…

Planning continues on the new Casey Arborway that will connect Franklin Park and the Arboretum with a strip of asphalt, a strip of green, two sidewalks and two extra wide bike paths. For the past two months the Design Advisory Group (DAG) has been grappling, among other things, with the idea of having a two-way…

Cycling out of Harvard Square northbound on Mass Ave can be confusing and dangerous, but major improvements are on the way thanks to comments the Union and others made on an upcoming reconstruction project there, one of the Bike Union’s first forays into street design in the city of Cambridge. That city is working on…