We received the following question via our online contact form: Hi there! I am currently living in NYC and I am planning on moving to Providence within the next year, but my big concern is being able to ride my bike, so im curious if you can tell me how bike friendly is Providence? I’ve
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July 29, 2008 Officer Investigated in Toppling of Cyclist By JAMES BARRON A New York City police officer was stripped of his gun and badge on Monday after an amateur video surfaced on the Internet showing him pushing a bicyclist to the ground in Times Square during a group ride on Friday evening. The cyclist,
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The next monthly advocacy meeting will be on August 7th @ 6pm. We will be meeting at the Hub (181 Brook Street, Providence).
My daughter and grand-daughter going for groceries in St. Paul.
This picture is the result of a collision between a RIPTA bus and a cyclist. A friend of the cyclist involved in this accident forwarded the picture to me. Fortunately the cyclist was uninjured and needed no hospital care, but look at this poor bike! I scoured the internet to see if I could locate
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From an article in today’s projo, the Barrington town council approved spending up to $10,000 to construct a new bike shelter so people can safely store their bicycles before catching a RIPTA bus to work. The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is offering to finance the design of the project, which will include the installation
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Re-cycling effort Interest in commuting by bike on the increase Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – +By Elizabeth CampbellGlobe Correspondent / July 24, 2008 Getting on a bike for the first time since she was 16 years old, 42-year-old Priscilla Power rode 5 miles to her Wakefield office as part of her company’s “Bike to Work Day” last
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FLATPACK TO GO: IKEA Debuts Bike Trailers by Mike Chino IKEA, that patent purveyor of all things flat-pack just announced that it has just teamed up with Velorbis to offer an exciting new service to its Danish customers: bike trailers. The arrangement will supply IKEA stores with a fleet of free trailer bikes, giving Danes
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Ditch the auto, saddle up, and reduce your commuting costs to zero By Ty Burr, Globe Staff | July 21, 2008 All right: Why not bicycle to work? Gas is headed for $5 a gallon, and our government can’t bring itself to pass any meaningful climate-change legislation. You can keep paying through the nose and
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Surprise, surprise… according to an article in the Woonsocket Call, the State is forecasting a significant financial shortfall. Rhode Island needs approximately $600 million a year to fix and maintain its highways and bridges and otherwise operate the state Department of Transportation (RIDOT); its current revenue stream provides about $300 million. Here’s a crazy idea,
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