A Bicycle Evangelist With the Wind Now at His Back By CORNELIA DEAN   Published: January 12, 2009 PORTLAND, Ore. — For years, Earl Blumenauer has been on a mission, and now his work is paying off. He can tell by the way some things are deteriorating around here. Stirling Elmendorf Representative Earl Blumenauer of
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January 11, 2009 Editorial Men on Bicycles By LAWRENCE DOWNES A well-worn landscape like Long Island’s yields few surprises to the driver’s gaze. Shops cluster by size and species: pizza with bagels and nail salons, Home Depot with Old Navy. But one roadside incongruity that always unnerves me is the sight of a person outside
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I’m sure many of you are aware, their are hopes of some major federal stimulus funding for “shovel-ready” state infrastructure projects on the horizon.  Rhode Island, as I’m sure is true with every state, is scrambling to get their list of projects compiled and off to the federal government to be evaluated by Congress.  The
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Here is a copy of the minutes from the January 8, 2009 advocacy meeting.  Let me know if you have any additions or corrections.  For those in attendence, if you agreed to take on the lead role for one of our longer running projects, your name is listed in parenthesis.

Welcome to 2009!  I hope the holidays were good to everyone and you are ready to help make 2009 the yaer of the bicycle in Providence.  Our next adocacy meeting is just around the corner.   We will be meeting @ 6pm, at the office of Red Five Sports Group (269 S Main St, Providence).  On
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Happy new year! While I still don’t believe that the City of Providence is ready for a full-on bike sharing program (although the local colleges may be), here is another example of people pulling it off in a nearby municipality, Mystic. The organization behind the program has had over 100 bikes donated already, and over
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