This morning’s Projo had a letter to the editor from a cyclist who was told he shouldn’t be on the streets, by a police officer. The cyclist was out for a ride on New Year’s day and returned through Providence. As he was heading Down North Main Street, I went up Smith Street, past the
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A report released by the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission calls for a significant federal gasoline tax increase of up to 40 cents implemented over 5 years. On top of this, a number of states are considering their own gas tax hikes. Would this finally be enough to reach the breaking point
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From an article in yesterday’s projo, Amid growing reports nationwide of fatal car accidents tied to cell phone use, Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a pair of bills that would ban hand-held mobile telephones and prohibit text messaging while driving. As we reported earlier, there was a teen killed in Taunton not long ago, where
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A friend of mine recently sent a link to the following video of a time lapse video of a student rush hour in Cambridge, UK. It sparked a rather interesting discussion between the two of us. Does this video show complete chaos (bikes all over everywhere, cars being cut off, and cyclist taking unnecessary risks)
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The next PBC advocacy meeting will be 6pm on February 7th @ The Hub. Hope you can join us to discuss how to make Providence more bike friendly.
Carlton Reid over at BikeBiz.com is reporting that there will be an Interbike East Coast Demo Day in 2008. The dates will be October 21st – 22nd and it will be held at Roger Williams Park. The Interbike Outdoor Demo East event will be based on the Interbike Outdoor Demo held before Interbike, Las Vegas
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Sram-Zipp/Orbea Clinic Coming to Providence Bicycle on Thursday January 10th at 7:00pm the SRAM/ORBEA / ZIPP WHEELS TECH CLINIC. We will have as our guests Butch Balzano from SRAM NEUTRAL SUPPORT, CJ Bradbury with ZIPP and Derrick Griggs of ORBEA USA. Butch will introduce Srams new RED GROUP for road bicycles and compare it to
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