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
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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
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The next Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting is on February 28th, 6:30pm at the Providence Foundation (30 Exchange Street, Providence).

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
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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).

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,
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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…

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
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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.

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,
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