The RI Blueways Alliance is planning a bike ride to coinside with Governor’s Bay Day: The RI Blueways Alliance is planning a land & water convergence at Governor’s Bay Day — next Sunday at Colt State Park. For a variety of reasons, our planning is off schedule and we didn’t do the outreach we should
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More fitness. America’s obesity epidemic curbed. Less gasoline burned, fewer carbon emissions. Safer streets. Improved access to public transit. Those are just some of the reasons why biking and walking proponents say it’s time for the federal government to focus less on new and expanded highways, and far more on safe pathways and “complete streets”
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Sorry for the short notice on this one…  We were recently contacted by one of the organizers of the IndieArts Fest and asked whether we could help find some volunteers to help with running a bike vale for this event.  It’s running from 12:30pm – 11:30pm this Saturday, July 18th.  Bikes will be parked at
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From RIDOT: Several dozen bikers and pedestrians will join officials from Quonset Development Corporation, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation and the town of North Kingstown for a ribbon cutting and inaugural pedal across the newly completed Quonset Shared Use Bike Path. The new 2.5 mile Bike Path will be formally open on July 17,
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Our monthly advocacy meeting, held the second Monday of every month, is just around the corner.  As usual, we will be meeting @ 6pm at the offices of the US Open Cycling Foundation (269 South Main St, Providence). I’ll ammend this post with an agenda when it is finalized.  Everyone is welcome.  Hope to see
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We were recently contacted with the following question Could any of the seasoned bike to work group provide some suggestions on how they are dealing with this crappy summer weather? I’m sure we all feel like we’ve been living in Seattle for the last month.  So what are you doing to deal with it?  Any
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Here’s the link to a report by Smart Growth America on how states have allocated their transportation stimulus funding. While Rhode Island did well in spending 100 percent of its total road allocation to “system preservation;” i.e., taking care of existing roads, it only provided a dismal 7.5 percent to public transportation and non-motorized projects.
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The RI House passed, what can now best be called an “Unsafe Passing Bill”, this past Saturday.  You can read the entire bill (pdf format) online.  Apparently, the bill was ammended on the floor of the House before passage, but, as of yet, we have been unable to determine what exactly these changes were. In
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It’s time to start telling the rest of the nation what many of us already know… bicycling is probably the most energy efficient mode of transportation available today!  This Sunday, July 5th, there is an Energy Independence Day celebration being held in Portsmouth, RI.  It would be great if we could have a strong contigent
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