We don’t post a lot of commuter tips on this blog, perhaps it would be good communal goal to do so in 2010! Here’s a start… I was heading for home on Friday, when I picked up a piece of glass in my rear tire. I was on a tight schedule and was heading for… read more
News Archive
An Evening of Sprints
Tired of riding outside in the cold or alone on the rollers in your basement? Come join us for an evening of RIVeloSprints! RI VeloSprints is an indoor bicycle roller racing tournament. Two cyclists climb aboard bicycles securely mounted to rollers and pedal as hard as they can for 500 meters. There will be nightly,… read more
Broken Grate on River Road
One of our readers reported the following to a traffic engineer at DPW over the weekend: I wanted to bring a situation to your attention that the City needs to fix asap, as it’s quite dangerous along River Road for bicyclists, runners, and walkers. Yesterday I was bike riding with my son through Blackstone Park,… read more
East Bay Bike Path Update
I had to run an errand in Riverside yesterday so I decided to use the bike path. Previous attempts to use the path have been difficult because of the snow cover we have had this winter. The recent warmer temperatures have had a clearing effect; and even though the above picture shows one of the… read more
Good news from USDOT!
Thanks to our friends at Greater City Providence for alerting us to this… USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood is making his mark, and the result will be better opportunities for active transportation projects. Check out this press release. In a nutshell, the criteria used to evaluate projects for funding are expanding. Instead of simply looking at… read more
sunday streets and bike/transit connections
I want to call attention to two items in the latest League of American Bicyclists e-newsletter. One refers to “Sunday Streets.” The article focuses on San Fransisco, noting that due to its past success it is being expanded. On 9 Sundays in 2010 in different parts of the city, some streets (including roadways in Golden… read more
The Copenhagen Wheel
An article on Green.Blorge discusses a new project out of MIT called the Copenhagen Wheel. It was unveiled on December 15th at the United Nations Climate Conference. This wheel is the first of it’s kind which will allow you to retrofit almost any bicycle with an electric assist. But it is so much more than… read more
Bike Highways
This was in the New York Times “Year in Ideas” section today. We have the beginnings of a bike highway here in RI — but as the Danish infrastructure consultant warns, you really need to create the bicycle culture first, not the highway. A bike highway and a dense network of city bike lanes —… read more
Sharrows: it’s official
The 2009 edition of the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD, for those who enjoy alphabet soup) is finally out after a v-e-r-y lengthy delay. The MUTCD is the national guidebook published by the Federal Highway Administration that defines and regulates all traffic control devices, traffic signs, traffic signals, and pavement markings in the… read more
Driver Charged After Hitting Cyclist in Johnston
According to a Projo article, The police arrested a 20-year-old Central Falls man on a charge of leaving the the scene of an accident Friday after witnesses reported seeing his car hit a young bicyclist in the area of Burnett Street and Pleasant Avenue. Fortunately, the 11 year old cyclist managed to escape with only… read more
It is dangerous out there after all
Last week’s news that the Transportation for America’s report Dangerous by Design indicated that the Providence-Fall River-New Bedford region has spent the most federal dollars by percentage on pedestrian facilities ($4.01 per capita between 2005-2008) seems to also indicate that RI has the highest incidence of pedestrian fatalities in New England and is fourth in… read more
Congressman Blumenaur Bikes with NYC Advocates
This video was actually posted on the StreetsFilms a few weeks back and I’m just now getting a chance to post it. If you haven’t yet seen the video, I’d encourage you to take a few minutes and watch it: I think the film format allows them to pack a bunch of information into a… read more