Archive for February 2014

Want to learn more about bike infrastructure?

Bubbling up out of the Bike Union Organizing Group’s brainstorms about how to build skills among the city’s bike advocates, Northeastern University is set to offer a workshop on Bicycling Infrastructure Planning and Design to all. The class will be taught by engineering faculty members Peter Furth, a member of the Organizing Group and contributing…

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Transportation Transition Team presents to Mayor Walsh

Bicyclists have strong voices on Mayor Marty Walsh‘s transportation transition team. In addition to Bike Union Executive Director Pete Stidman, the team included Bike Union volunteer and public health specialist Jenny Molina, Jackie Douglas from LivableStreets, Wendy Landman from WalkBoston and others with an affinity for the pedal. The details of the plan are still under wraps as the administration…

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DCR reaches out, seeks to review snow & ice policies

Tuesday morning——after increasing pressure from Allston-Brighton Bikes, Southie Bikes, Bike Union volunteers and dozens of everyday riders posting to Facebook and Twitter——the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) paid a call to the Bike Union to invite the bike community to the table to discuss their snow & ice removal policies. “We most certainly respect…

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Victory for Allstonians on Cambridge Street!

Thanks to the work of Allston-Brighton neighborhood activists (with longtime support from the Bike Union) and other advocacy groups, a new kind of cycletrack for Boston will be added to the Cambridge Street bridge over I-90 when it is reconstructed in the next year or two. It puts cyclists inside of a crash barrier at…

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