02.27.08
Posted in Announcements
by Mark Dieterich at 8:43 am
From the NBW email list:
A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. March 2,
at the First Unitarian Society in Newton, at 1326
Washington St. (across the street from Harris Cyclery)
West Newton.
For those pedaling to the memorial service, there will
be a designated bicycle parking area. A police detail
will be on hand, but please bring your lock.
Sheldon’s family has requested that memorial donations
be made to the causes and groups that he loved best -
Cycling Advocacy/Education and Community Theatre.
As his influence was world wide, please consider any
of the following:
MassBike
171 Milk Street
Suite 33
Boston. MA 02109
617-542-6755
http://www.massbike.org
Revels, Inc.
80 Mt. Auburn Street
Watertown, MA 02472
617-972-8300
Revels Inc.
Or consider a gift in Sheldon’s name to your local
cycling advocacy or community theatre organization.
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02.26.08
Posted in Events
by Mark Dieterich at 7:51 pm
| February 27, 2008 |
| 3:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Sorry for the short notice on this, for those who haven’t heard. Tomorrow from 3 to 7, Project for Public Spaces will lead a workshop to envision a Kennedy Plaza more useful and more welcoming to all users, present and future. (Then all we’ll need is the $25 bazillion for implementation!). Click on the image for a larger version of the flyer.
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02.21.08
Posted in Events
by Mark Dieterich at 10:32 am
| February 28, 2008 |
| 6:30 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
The next Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting is on February 28th, 6:30pm at the Providence Foundation (30 Exchange Street, Providence).
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Posted in Events
by Mark Dieterich at 10:27 am
| March 18, 2008 |
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Providence Bicycle Commuter Clinic
401-331-6610 725 Branch Ave Providence RI 02904
Do you live less than ten miles from where you work? Price of gas got you down? How much are you paying a month to park your car Downcity? Sick of doing the ten o’clock shuffle on College Hill? Looking for ways to get a little more exercise into your life? Have you ever considered riding your bicycle to work?
We at Providence Bicycle are offering a free Bicycle Commuting Clinic on Tuesday March 18 at 7 pm. You will learn from seasoned commuters who ride to work everyday! We will touch on how to prepare at home and work for a weekly commute, how to avoid common traffic mishaps, necessary gear for safety and comfort, how to handle minor mechanicals and how you can integrate your bicycle into your everyday life.
A Providence Bicycle Commuting Mentor will be available to help you plan the safest route possible from your home to your work place and ride it with you on your first day. Seating is limited so please RSVP Joe at joe@providencebicycle.com to reserve your place.
It will be a great time and we hope to see you there. The Staff at Providenc Bicycle
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02.20.08
Posted in Events
by Mark Dieterich at 7:42 pm
| March 3, 2008 |
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
A public meeting to discuss whether or not to stripe bike lanes along Blackstone Boulevard will be held at 7pm on March 3rd, at School One (University Ave, just one block off the Blvd).
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Posted in Advocacy
by Eric at 3:57 pm
Years of work has led to the scheduling of a public meeting regarding striping bike lanes onto Blackstone Boulevard. It is imperative that as many bike lane boosters as possible be in attendance to show the City that the community is behind the project. The meeting will be at 7 pm on Monday, March 3, at School One (University Ave, just a block off the Blvd). Please tell your friends and family and co-workers and neighbors and anyone else who you think would be supportive.Here is a flyer to use as well.
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02.19.08
Posted in Advocacy
by Eric at 12:52 pm
Not in Providence (yet), but it is happening for a small college in Wisconsin, in an effort to reduce traffic congestion and parking stress. Check it out here! Just imagine what the neighborhoods around Brown and PC would look like…
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02.13.08
Posted in Advocacy
by Mark Dieterich at 1:43 pm
A small contingent from Bike-To-Brown, Brown Cycling, and other concerned cyclists attended todays State Traffic Commission (STC) meeting. The agenda item we were most interested in was the RIDOT proposal restricting bicycles from the Henderson Bridge roadway during the upcoming construction project. I wrote up an extended post on the Bike-To-Brown website, so take a trip over there if you want all the details.
The short story is that the vote was tabled until the next STC meeting, giving RIDOT some more time to address our concerns. In my opinion, it’s likely that the restriction will be put in place, but we are hopeful that RIDOT will provide us with accommodations to make the sidewalk more usable, i.e. actually extending both sidewalks into East Providence rather than having them stop at the bridge.
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02.12.08
Posted in Advocacy
by Eric at 9:51 am
The version of the city’s bike plan map currently posted on the planning dept. website is not the final version. This one, however, is.
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02.11.08
Posted in Advocacy, Alerts
by Mark Dieterich at 11:17 am
I posted this over on the Bike-To-Brown site as well, but it’s important enough to repeat it here. RIDOT has a request listed on the agenda for the February 13th, 2008 meeting of the State Traffic Commission (STC) to:
approve the restriction of bicycles to use the sidewalk area only on the Henderson Bridge.
Naturally, this causes some problems:
- bicycles can’t legally ride on the sidewalks, the railings are too low
- the sidewalks don’t go far enough for people traveling farther East than Massasoit Ave
The meeting is a 10am on February 13th at the State House, Room 203. We should definitely arrange to have one or more people attend.
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