My family and I enjoyed a great Father’s Day weekend camping, away from the hustle and bustle of daily life. It was great to spend some quality time out in the fresh air, where cars don’t rule the day and people live a “simpler” life (looking at some of the other camp setups around us,… read more
Advocacy
From May 15 Jamestown Press — kudos to Safe Routes to School
A ‘dream team’ gets the job done Congratulations and hooray to Rolling Agenda for positioning the Town of Jamestown to receive a $250,000 Federal Safe Routes to School (SRTS) grant. The grant, passed through the State of Rhode Island, has several goals: promote safe walking and bike riding for our school children; increase the number… read more
ghost bike
There has been a ghost bike locked up outside of the Providence Art Club on Thomas St (between Benefit and N Main) since earlier this spring. It memorializes Amanda Lynn Benge, who passed away on February 2, 2008 after a bicycle accident on January 18. To my knowledge, this is currently Providence’s only ghost bike.… read more
Smoother Pedaling in NYC
N.Y. Hopes to Ensure Smooth Pedaling for Bike Commuters By Robin Shulman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 25, 2008; A02 NEW YORK — The view from the lens of photographer Mark Weiss’s camera is of a treacherous world of cab drivers weaving into bike lanes, of double-parked delivery vehicles, of car doors opening suddenly,… read more
More proof that kids need exercise!
Inertia at the Top Belated, Patchy Response Further Hamstrung By Inadequate Federal Attention, Experts Say By Susan Levine and Lori Aratani Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, May 19, 2008; A01 The problem at first was that the problem was ignored: For almost two decades, young people in the United States got fatter and fatter —… read more
Berlin has a better idea!
May 19, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Stranded in Suburbia By PAUL KRUGMAN BERLIN I have seen the future, and it works. O.K., I know that these days you’re supposed to see the future in China or India, not in the heart of “old Europe.” But we’re living in a world in which oil prices keep setting… read more
Mayor Menino Pedals for Boston Bike Lanes
Menino pedals for cycle-friendly city Boston to unveil its first dedicated bike lanes By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | May 13, 2008 Blue track suit billowing, Mayor Thomas M. Menino pedaled up Congress Street, legs churning against a stiff wind that turned a ceremonial half-mile ride into an exercise in perseverance. “I didn’t think we’d… read more
Reaching the Tipping Point for Mass Transit
May 10, 2008 Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit By CLIFFORD KRAUSS DENVER — With the price of gas approaching $4 a gallon, more commuters are abandoning their cars and taking the train or bus instead.Mass transit systems around the country are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats were once… read more
More Traffic For Division Street
As if we aren’t already having enough fun with part of the Washington Bridge Pedestrian Bridge gone, eminent work to begin on the Henderson Bridge, WPRI reports that RIDOT announced today they will be lowering the weight limit on I-95 even further: The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) announced it will lower the posting… read more
Climate Ride 2008
The people over at Climate Ride are planning a ride to raise awareness about the need to address climate changes. The have put out a call for participation: Join us this Fall for the first multi-day supported bicycle tour where you pedal to raise money and awareness for action on global warming. Climate Riders will… read more
Don’t let them raid the mass transit account!
TRANSPORTATION: Congress looks to infrastructure funding for economic boost (05/06/2008) Josh Voorhees, E&E Daily reporter Amid growing concerns over a slowing economy, lawmakers are turning their attention to the nation’s infrastructure as one way to provide an economic boost. The case for infrastructure investment made by many legislators, and heartily echoed by the transportation industry,… read more
Connecting RI to the Cape
Have you ever heard of the SouthCoast Bikeway? I just stumbled upon an article posted on SouthCoastToday.com discussing efforts to create a bikeway with The long-held dream is that, starting at the Rhode Island border, a cyclist might breeze along a designated route through 10 communities – Swansea, Somerset, Fall River, Westport, Dartmouth, New Bedford,… read more