Here’s a link to the study cited in the article: http://www.itdp.org/documents/European_Parking_U-Turn.pdf TRANSPORTATION: Reducing parking spaces helps cities cut auto emissions (01/24/2011) (Embedded image moved to file: pic28685.gif) Tiffany Stecker, E&E reporter With bicycle share schemes, smoothly running metros and pedestrian-only streets, Europe has an edge over the New World when it comes to alternatives to… read more
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Take a Stand for Bicycling
The people over at People for Bikes, an initiative of Bikes Belong, have an email campaign going on right now. They are encouraging every cyclist to spend just a couple of minutes and email your representatives, reminding them that there are MANY people who feel bicycles and bicycle infrastructure are important. They even make the… read more
VeloSprints College Series Begins Monday Night. Win a New Fixie!
Announcing the 2011 VeloSprints College Series. $10 with a valid college ID lets you ride all night and pick your best result. $15 w/o a valid ID. Come! Race! Help a great cause! Win a new fixie! More information here.
VeloSprints Resumes!
VeloSprints resumed last night at Eastern Mountain Sports in Cranston. It was great! Some folks who have been kind of checking it out, but weren’t sure tried it and learned that sprinting 500m is a whole different – and engaging challenge – from what they thought. And EMS is a great place for VeloSprints in… read more
Public Hearing – East Providence Wastewater Facility Upgrades
We just received notification from the City of East Providence of a public hearing tomorrow (January 20th) @ 7pm, to: present the City of East Providence’s proposed wastewater improvement project to eliminate sewage overflows. The project involves the installation of a new sewer force main pipe along the East Bay Bike Path… You can read… read more
RI VeloSprints Fundraising Series Resumes Wednesday Evening in Cranston!
It has been a couple of weeks(Old Man Winter and all) but RI VeloSprints will be in its non-pub venue of Eastern Mountain Sports on Sockanosset Cross Road in Cranston tomorrow night beginning at 7:00pm. If you love to ride and want to turn that passion into a force for good in your community, but you’d… read more
CANCELLED – RIVeloSprints Session 3 Tonight @ Fat Belly’s in Wakefield.
Unfinished renovation at Fat Belly’s, Wakefield forces us to cancel tonights VeloSprints session. We’ll be back next Tuesday night to see if anyone south of Providence can spin 500metres faster than Ned Connelly. See you all then. More information about RI VeloSprints at RIVeloSprints.com.
Public Hearing on Canonchet Farm
For those who value the South County Bike Path, there is an important public hearing coming up, on January 18th @ 8pm, to discuss the possible use of Canonchet Farm. This land could play an integral role in one of the final sections of the bike path. The Town Council is having a public hearing… read more
Critical Mass
I think you’d be hard pressed to find any cyclists who doesn’t agree more bikes on the roads means safer cycling conditions for all cyclists. How we go about achieving this volume of cyclists, however, is far more critical. For those who didn’t make last months meeting, we had a pretty lively discussion prior to… read more
Please Clear Those Cars
I’m sure I won’t be the only person who has ever seen a car like the one pictured to the left traveling down the road. It’s also likely I’m not alone in having seen such a car dump it’s load while underway. Certainly those of us who drive have, at some point, experienced such a… read more
I want to bike and walk but…
I’m not sure how we missed this last year. For Earth Day 2010, CTC member Audubon Society of RI challenged students grades 3 – 12 to respond to the lead-in “I want to bike and walk but…” The students addressed their essays, poems or raps to their town’s mayor and submitted their work individually or… read more
VeloSprints Winter Series Session 2 @ EMS in Cranston is cancelled for tonight!!!
See you next week in Crantson at EMS at 7:00 pm.