For some background on the TIP process, see our previous blog posts. The State Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) continues to move through its public process. The subcommittees of the Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) have now met to prioritize the submitted projects in their areas of focus: Recreational Trails, Bicycle Facilities, Pedestrian/ADA Facilities, Safe Routes to… read more
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Providence BPAC update 1-20-16
The Providence Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC) is the official city body for advising the Mayor on bike/ped issues. The current commissioners are Eric Weis (chair), Matt Moritz (coincidentally RIBike board president), Michelle Cortez-Harkins, Laura Bozzi, and Jef Nickerson. The commission is staffed by Martina Haggerty of the City’s Department of Planning & Development,… read more
Cycle Tracks: January 25, 2016
Welcome to Cycle Tracks, RIBike’s bi-weekly bike advocacy email newsletter. Do you or does someone you know have financial skills as well as a passion for bikes? There are two ways we could use your help! First, our hardworking treasurer Mark needs to step out of that role and we’re looking for someone to take… read more
Webinar: Temporary Protected Bike Lanes
In partnership with Fuss & O’Neill Inc., the Rhode Island Bicycle Coalition is thrilled to provide on February 9th discounted access to this Institute for Transportation Engineers webinar on temporary deployment of separated bike lane facilities. Compared to a normal price of $100, we are gathering at Fuss & O’Neill’s offices and asking participants $10… read more
February 3rd BikeTalk: MassDOT Separated Bike Lane Guide
The February BikeTalk is going to be especially exciting! Lou Rabito (Complete Streets Engineer, MassDOT) & Nick Jackson (Toole Design Group) presented at the New England Bike Walk Summit about the exciting new design guide they developed for MassDOT. We were so inspired by their work that we asked them to come do an encore… read more
Distracted Driving Bill introduced in RI House!
Thanks to the work of RIBike Legislative Chair Barry Schiller, RIBike board member Rep. Teresa Tanzi, and bill co-sponsors Reps. Kathy Fogarty, Lauren Carson, Ray Hull, and Ray Johnston, the Distracted Driving Bill has been introduced in the RI House of Representatives! This bill has been a priority for the RI Bicycle Coalition for several years… read more
Cycle Tracks: January 11, 2016
Welcome to Cycle Tracks, RIBike’s bike advocacy email newsletter. The next film in our monthly winter film series is “Inspired to Ride” and is TOMORROW, Tuesday, January 12th. Tickets are $12 in advance, or $15 at the door. Come out and enjoy the awesome viewing experience at Cable Car, hang out with other people who like bikes,… read more
January Update on TIP Process
As we’ve mentioned before, the state Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) is very important as a plan or what big transportation projects will happen in Rhode Island in the next ten years. With the submission deadline last Friday, RIBike has been very active in the TIP process so far. Most of the submissions to the TIP… read more
Cycle Tracks: December 3, 2016
Welcome to Cycle Tracks, RIBike’s bi-weekly email newsletter. While our tummies still remember the Thanksgiving cornucopia and we’re yearning for a fire to gather round with family for the holidays, now is a busy time for bikes in Rhode Island. Events, ensuring bike advocacy continues, and the TIP, all happening now! Read more: The next… read more
Update on RIDOT and the TIP
Yesterday at the ECRI roundtable with RIDOT Deputy Director Pete Garino, we got a lot of clarifying responses about bike & transit projects and the forthcoming 10-year Transportation Improvement Plan: The “Blackstone River Bikeway Segment 1A” would connect the southern part of Gano Street to Richmond Square past the Crook Point Bascule Bridge in Gano… read more
10 Things We’re Thankful For about Rhode Island Bicycling
1. Citizen transportation activism in Rhode Island is as strong as it’s ever been. Our coalition is growing each day, and our voice for safer, more comfortable, and more accessible bicycling is getting stronger every week. Join the party! 2. It’s Cyclo-cross season… …and there are two awesome cross events happening in the next 10… read more
Dreaming Bike-Friendly is Easy. Building Bike-Friendly is Hard.
2015 has been a banner year!
Bike Newport continues to gain traction on the roads, in the community, and around the region. Our “By the Numbers” card details exciting progress: more bike education, more bike infrastructure, and more bike riders. That’s the Bike Newport story – MORE and BETTER bicycling.
No matter why you ride, or even if you don’t ride, you’ll love the community we’re working to create. A bike-friendly Newport will also be a kid-, pedestrian-, elder-, business-, and environment-friendly Newport. Newport will be a better community for motorists, as well. We’re working to educate all road users about safety – better bicyclists, better pedestrians, and better motorists.
Our efforts are all based on a three-part promise of more and better infrastructure, education, and ridership:
On the road to this bike-friendly vision, we’re working toward more bike lanes, more bike parking, better bike routes, better bike education, better road sharing, and, yes, dedicated bike paths on Aquidneck Island – starting with the First Mile. We will hold our course until we have connected the North End with the center of town, and we have afforded our residents and visitors a healthful and enjoyable way to arrive in Newport walking and biking. That First Mile of bike path will be one more step on the path to a bikeable and walkable island – for transportation and for recreation. We can do this – with your help. We can hold our course and continue to strengthen our partnerships, deepen our traction, and advance our progress.
Please support us today. Because dreaming bike-friendly is easy. But funding bike-friendly is hard.
Every contribution helps! Donations are tax-deductible.
Contributions over $50 will receive a free Bike Newport 2016 membership.
Join us, visit us, be part of the action.
Take a class, rescue a bike, come for a community ride, share your road knowledge, mark the maps, teach a kid to ride or to keep her tires inflated, help park some of the 3,369 bikes at the Folk Festival! Stop by our HQ at 437 Broadway any time and say hello. Grab a Newport Bike Map and a Commuter Guide while you’re here. Visit our Bike Garages and get a tour of the inventory, learn a little about wheel truing from an expert, or how to fix a flat from a recent basic bike maintenance graduate. Bear witness to the crowd of kids circling Miantonomi Park on Bike Library bikes.
We need your help to make it all happen! To keep us in the saddle and at the tables where decisions are made. We need your help to keep the doors open to our Bike Library, the tools busy at our Bike Garages, the routes shared in our Bike Map, the spotlight on local and statewide Bike Plans, and funding for safer on-road biking as well as multi-use paths.
If you have ideas, questions, feedback, please reach out to us. Our email is info@bikenewportri.org. Our phone number is (401) 619-4900.
Explore this website – it’s chock full of great information, maps, and resources.
THANK YOU! For your support, and for being part of Bike Newport.
Bike Newport Board:
Dawn Euer, Chair; Allison McNally, Vice Chair; Don Jagoe, Treasurer; Laura Murphy, Secretary; Sarah Atkins, Renee Kaminitz, Peter Harty, James Ryan, Chip Young
Bike Newport Staff:
Bari Freeman, Executive Director; Mark Chesterton, Director of Education; Liza Burkin, Program Manager
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