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Talbot Ave bike lanes about two months away!
Many of you have surely noticed that Talbot Avenue is being repaved this week. Suspense is building up in anticipation of the first bike lanes in any neighborhood of color…
Read MoreBoston Bikes featured on StreetFilms.org
New York City’s Clarence Eckerson Jr. was up in Boston for Bike Week and shot this nice bit on Boston’s progress so far. Nice to see our city featured as…
Read MoreBCU's Globe column #3 out today, topic: 3-speeds and tweed
In the 1970s, 10-speeds were de rigeur. Two decades later, mountain bikes were on every biker’s wish list, and most recently, “city bikes,” single speeds and “fixies” are as equally…
Read MoreDotBike helps take Franklin Park bike ban off the books
At the Boston Parks Commission on Monday, commissioners accepted and approved a proposal from the Franklin Park Coalition, DotBike and other community groups to officially allow bicycling in 527-acre Franklin…
Read MoreMass Ave to have bike lanes from Albany Street to the bridge!
There will come a day when the Mass Ave gateway from Cambridge to Boston will not be where the bike lane disappears! Thanks to a massive long-term effort by LivableStreets…
Read MoreNew bike lanes on Comm Ave! But they're not finished just yet…
Cyclists rolling down Commonwealth Ave between the Common and Kenmore Square have been getting a pleasant surprise this week: new bike lanes! The city’s design is quite innovative, and puts…
Read MoreThe new bicycle checkbox at BPD—and an enforcement update
The BCU is happy to report that the first step in a long road toward superior bike crash reporting in the city of Boston has been taken. It may seem…
Read MoreBike lanes to grace Centre and South streets!
In Jamaica Plain, a bubbling controversy over bike lanes on Centre and South streets has been the talk of the town for the past few months. For those of you…
Read MoreToday is the first day of the rest of our lives—with the T.
The Boston Cyclists Union, MassBike and the City of Boston met with a group of MBTA officials this morning to begin a long-term effort aimed at improving how the T’s…
Read MoreWhat's a cycletrack? A friend of Sam Adams explains.
How many of you knew that the beer we all know and love here in Boston was elected Mayor in Portland? Yep. Mayor Sam Adams. Well we didn’t get the…
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