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Bos/treal 2020: Registration is now live!
Do you dream of biking through the gorgeous Green Mountains? Do you want to help make biking better in Boston? If the answer to both questions is yes, then we want you to join our team for the fifth-annual edition of Bos/treal! On Bos/treal, you’ll pedal 400 miles from Boston to Montreal over five days, traversing…
Read MoreI biked 400 miles to Canada from Boston — and you can too
By: Shavel’le Olivier *Me awkwardly sitting with a group of people thinking about how to start a conversation* No one: Literally no one: Me: “I biked 400 miles to Canada from Boston!” And I say this with a smile every time I mention or think about it. A bike tour from Boston to Canada seemed…
Read MoreA major victory on the Craigie Bridge — Help us keep winning!
This month, biking in Metro Boston got a whole lot safer with the implementation of separated bike lanes on the Craigie Bridge. This outcome is the direct result of us flexing our collective advocacy muscle — and we hope, in the afterglow of this milestone, you’ll consider giving to the Bike Union so we can continue fighting for more life-saving…
Read MoreFarewell friends, it's been a pleasure working with you!
Friends, For the past three years I have worked alongside you as we fought, one street at a time, to make the Boston area safer for people to bike. We’ve won countless victories, and the fruits of our labor are evident all over the city. It seems like every month a new stretch of bike…
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The Boston Cyclists Union is very lucky to have members and volunteers who are so dedicated to our work. At the start of 2016, a few Bike Union volunteers got together, with Community Organizer Doug Johnson, to hatch a plan to host the Boston Cyclists Union’s very first ride – and not just another fun…
Read MoreLet Us Know Where We Should Advocate for Better Infrastructure!
As part of our Bikeways for Everybody campaign we want your input on where you want better infrastructure as well as other problematic locations you encounter while biking. Raphael, our Mapping and Data Intern, has been developing the online crowdsourcing map below to solicit community input. Over the past four months Raphael has been helping…
Read MoreYour help needed on Casey Arborway one more time
WE at the Boston Cyclists Union apologize for having to post this important action alert, but if you live in Boston, we need to ask for your immediate action to support a decision many Jamaica Plain residents supported by a factor of 3 to 1 back in 2012, because it is again being dragged into…
Read MoreComm Ave cycletrack serves as kickoff for Vision Zero in Boston
The morning after his staff received a standing ovation for their safety-centric redesign of Commonwealth Ave in Allston, Mayor Marty Walsh held a press conference to tie the project into a much broader initiative: Vision Zero. “We had a couple bike fatalities last year and seven pedestrian deaths, we can do [all modes of transportation]…
Read MoreBike Stories 3 – Sofia Morais from Denmark on Commonwealth Ave
DCR lays down unusual, unsafe bike lanes on Arborway
The Department of Conservation has made significant progress this year on becoming more bike-friendly, but has not been open and transparent with the process of adding new bikeways on the Arborway in the short span between Kelley Circle (at Jamaica Pond) and Murray Circle (the Arboretum). The Bike Union officially requested the any plans for…
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