Sorry about the late notice… I just found out that I need to be into Providence early tomorrow. I’ll be leading the East Bay Bike Train in a half hour early, i.e. the departure from Independence Park in Bristol will be, unfortuately, 6:30am
The Providence Bicycle Coalition and the Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living are pleased to announce the second year of bike trains to Apeiron’s Sustainable Living Festival! On June 6 & 7 (both Festival days), the PBC will lead rides from Providence Train Station to the festival site in Coventry, about 22 miles, starting at 8:30
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Thanks to a posting on Providence Daily Dose, the PBC was alerted to a neighborhood meeting last night in the Elmhurst neighborhood regarding proposed changes to the traffic configuration on Pleasant Valley Parkway. For those of you who are unfamiliar with PVP, here is a nutshell explanation: 2 parallel roadways with a linear park comprising
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Can someone help a brother cyclist out? The PBC received this message: “Was wondering if there is a good way to determine a safe (er) route for biking to work. I live in Providence and work in Mansfield, MA. My one attempt at biking to work was awful and w/o a foldable bike (or desire
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What a great day! Yes, it started out drizzly – but that was expected. (It just wouldn’t be B2WD without some precipitation.) But it quickly dried out and turned glorious. Throughout the course of the day, hundreds of people came by. The award for the longest bike commute goes to the hero from Westerly whose
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I’m traveling next week, so the East Bay Bike Train will run a slightly shorter route on May 18th. Their will be someone leading it starting at the playground stop: View Monday Bike Trains in a larger map The schedule will remain the same, it just won’t run the full length. People are still invited
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Thanks to our awesome volunteers, we are now able to offer a sixth Bicycle Train for B2WD tomorrow. A number of people requested some help getting in from Pawtucket and now we will do just this. If you are coming from this direction and don’t want to head farther west to join our Blackstone Bikeway
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve come to realize there are a LOT of stop signs missing at the intersections along the East Bay Bike Path. This got me to thinking… before someone from DEM notices this and just replaces the signs, should we approach them and ask to have a study done to determine
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Montreal welcomed North America’s first large-scale bicycle-sharing program yesterday with a flight of 3,000 specially designed bicycles distributed among 300 closely spaced stations. Bixi, the bicycle-sharing system, operates around a computer chip-based, solar-powered, WiFi-enabled base station. Logistically, the use of solar power makes it easier to add base stations around the city if the demand
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Good neighborhood meeting tonight on the Broadway streetscaping project, though sparsely attended (despite heavy promotion by the city, West Broadway Neighborhood Association, and Providence Bicycle Coalition). Most comments were related to heavy truck traffic and speeding. Not one beef about the bike lane component of the project. Councilman Lombardi appears to favor it. It looks
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