Saturday, September 24th, 2011 Explore the Woonasquatucket River from Providence to bucolic North Smithfield on this annual 50/23/10/5 mile bike-a-thon; a fundraiser for the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council. The 50/23/10 mile rides START and END at Waterplace Park in Downtown Providence: • 8:00am – 50 mile ride • 9:30am – 23 mile ride • 10:30am
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. 100 MacArthur Boulevard, South Kingstown, RI This item comes from a press release made by RIDOT and the Friends of the South County Bike Path. The Friends of South County’s William C. O’Neill Bike Path are pleased to announce the ribbon cutting for Phase 3 of this seven-mile
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Sunday, July 31, 3-7pm @Dexter Park A celebration of bike riding and grassroots organizing in the city. It will start with a ride-your-bike scavenger hunt  and end with a party at Dexter Park on the west end of Providence. The scavenger hunt starts at the park between 2:30-3pm. Maps will be provided. Go on a
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This past Monday, I rode along the East Bay and Blackstone River bicycle paths and through a now well-marked network of public roadways which connect them.  Bridging these two bike paths to create one, near 35 mile stretch from Woonsocket to Bristol is the vision of Bob Billington, Executive Director of the Blackstone Valley Tourism
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Both in DC and in RI there are serious threats to the continued development of our bike path system. The GOP dominated US House of Representatives is poised to pass a transportation bill that reduces transportation spending by almost 1/3 to match revenues generated by a Federal gas tax of 18.4 cents/gallon that has not
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