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Bike accessories, from the useful to the downright zany
Now that it’s high season for cycling, the time is ripe to give the trusty ride a makeover. We trolled the World Wide Web and solicited recommendations from our friends…
Read MoreWin a prize for the best "Spokes in the Hub" Photo!
Winners will be announced June 7th in the Union Rider and on this website. To celebrate Bike Month and the awesomeness of the cycling community in Boston, the Union is…
Read MoreCharlestown wins bike lane back
By Pete Stidman Charlestown cyclists were shocked when the neighborhood’s first bike lanes were promptly erased last fall, but they received some better news earlier this month when the Charlestown…
Read MoreSullivan Sq./Rutherford Ave. project in peril
By Pete Stidman In an 18-month public Boston Transportation Department process that concluded last year, community members chose a “surface option” that would remake Sullivan Square into a grid of…
Read MoreCity bringing cycletrack to the North End
By Pete Stidman While bikeways raise controversy in some parts of town, some residents in the North End are calling the City of Boston’s new plan for a “hybrid” of…
Read MoreBoston takes silver in bike-friendly awards
The following is a press release issued by the League of American Bicyclists. Washington, DC – April 30, 2011 – The League of American Bicyclists announced the latest round of…
Read MoreCity intent on Mass Ave bike lane, but challenges ahead
Over 150 people showed up to last Thursday’s public hearing “to assess public interest” in a bike lane on Mass Ave, almost all of them cyclists. The room was so…
Read MoreEast Boston Greenway's future hangs in the balance: Time to write the governor!
It could be a peaceful bike path passing through a corner of Wood Island Bay Marsh–part of a former Frederick Law Olmsted park that years ago was cut off from…
Read MoreIf you tweet, tweet #BostonBikeNews!
By Patrick Kelleher-Calnan Do you tweet? Thinking about using Twitter? The Union has come up with a way that we can all share what’s going on with cycling in the…
Read MoreNew Forsyth Way Plan aids "World Series Path" vision
By Joe Connolly Union member and professor of civil engineering at Northeastern University Peter Furth has won yet another small victory for cyclists. If a proposed redesign of Forsyth Way…
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