CORE CONNECTOR STUDY MEETING Providence Core Connector Study Meeting Monday, November 15th 6:30 – 8:00pm Brown University’s MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer Street, Room 117 (“Starr Auditorium”) CHNA has organized a meeting to discuss the Providence Core Connector Study. This meeting has been scheduled on short notice to accommodate a vote in December that relates to the
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RIBike helped St. Jude get the message out about one of their events and provided some routing advice. This was their first attempt at running a cycling fundraiser and we were fortunate to be one of five sites they choose to test the idea. It was a great event, amazingly well staffed with very excited
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Per the NYT: “We’ve installed 250 miles of lane over the last four years and thousands of new bike racks,” Janette Sadik-Khan, the city’s transportation commissioner, said at a news conference. “We have been friendly to cyclists. Now it’s time for cyclists to be friendlier to the city.” It’s past time for Providence scofflaw cyclists
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The third response we’ve received for our request to gubernatorial statements on bicycles: I love to bike, and I’m glad to live in Rhode Island, where the natural beauty of the state can be enjoyed through its bike paths. About once a week, I bike from my house in Warwick around a loop of a
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The second response we received to our request for a statement on biking is from Ken Block, Moderate Party candidate for governor. Here is his statement: “I am very pro-bicycling, and as Governor, I will work to make Rhode Island a more bicycle friendly state. Right now, we have a good bicycling infrastructure, but I
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We reached out to all the potential gubernatorial candidates and ask them for a policy statement on bike issues. The first response we have received is from Frank Caprio. RIBike, the organization, does not intend to throw its support behind any particular candidate. Our aim is to gather information and foster communication, so each of
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Coventry Greenway Whitford Street to Station Street segment dedication, October 14, 11:00AM.
The next RIBike monthly meeting will be held on October 18th @ 6pm in the Brown University Bookstore (244 Thayer Street, Providence) Community Meeting Room. This is a week later than our normally scheduled meeting due to the Columbus Day Holiday. We will update this post with an agenda as the date gets nearer.
According to a Projo article, Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray on Friday announced the allocation of $15 million for construction of the first Massachusetts segment of the planned Blackstone Valley Bike Path connecting Providence and Worcester. The first 2.5 miles of the path, which would total 48 miles, would include 11 bridges and would run
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