I happened upon another blog posting stating that: Tina Dolen, the Executive Director of the Aquidneck Island Planning Commission, announced that they had secured $500K from RIDOT for a “holistic,” island-wide traffic study. “We made proposal to RIDOT to conduct a corridor study,” said Dolen, “A comprehensive analysis of how traffic moves across this island,… read more
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Ask RIDOT: Bicycle traffic-light sensors are not coming any time soon
I sent a question about traffic-light sensors into “Ask RIDOT” a while back and just happened to notice they answered it. The bottom line appears to be: RIDOT does not currently use bicycle detection at signalized intersections. The Department has not researched the operation and efficiency of these detection systems yet. That does not mean,… read more
Bike lanes on Blackstone Blvd: Part 2
The first Boulevard bike lane striping entry on this website attracted far more comments – pro and con – than any other topic that has ever appeared on this site. So it wasn’t terribly surprising that the public meeting, held Monday March 3 at School One, was well attended. However, despite memories of a rancorous… read more
Sheldon Brown Memorial
From the NBW email list: A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. March 2, at the First Unitarian Society in Newton, at 1326 Washington St. (across the street from Harris Cyclery) West Newton. For those pedaling to the memorial service, there will be a designated bicycle parking area. A police detail will be… read more
Bike Lanes on Blackstone Boulevard? For real. Read on…
Years of work has led to the scheduling of a public meeting regarding striping bike lanes onto Blackstone Boulevard. It is imperative that as many bike lane boosters as possible be in attendance to show the City that the community is behind the project. The meeting will be at 7 pm on Monday, March 3,… read more
STC Meeting Update
A small contingent from Bike-To-Brown, Brown Cycling, and other concerned cyclists attended todays State Traffic Commission (STC) meeting. The agenda item we were most interested in was the RIDOT proposal restricting bicycles from the Henderson Bridge roadway during the upcoming construction project. I wrote up an extended post on the Bike-To-Brown website, so take a… read more
City of Providence bike plan map
The version of the city’s bike plan map currently posted on the planning dept. website is not the final version. This one, however, is.
RIDOT Asking to Ban Bikes on Henderson Roadways
I posted this over on the Bike-To-Brown site as well, but it’s important enough to repeat it here. RIDOT has a request listed on the agenda for the February 13th, 2008 meeting of the State Traffic Commission (STC) to: approve the restriction of bicycles to use the sidewalk area only on the Henderson Bridge. Naturally,… read more
Ride Of Silence
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008, 7:00 PM Cranston Parkade, outside KMart A free worldwide event on a single day, at a single hour. Visit http://www.rideofsilence.org This is a 14 mile, slow paced bicycle ride to remember victims of automotive carnage, raise “Share the Road” awareness, and save lives. Bring a bike in good repair, and a… read more
RIP Sheldon Brown
One of the country’s most knowledgeable and passionate cycling advocates, Sheldon Brown, passed away on Sunday. A VeloNews article points readers to a memorial blog for Sheldon Brown where they are encouraging people to submit their stories and memories. I’d encourage anyone who knew Sheldon Brown to submit their comments to the blog.
Cyclist Told He Shouldn’t be on the Road – By Police
This morning’s Projo had a letter to the editor from a cyclist who was told he shouldn’t be on the streets, by a police officer. The cyclist was out for a ride on New Year’s day and returned through Providence. As he was heading Down North Main Street, I went up Smith Street, past the… read more
Bills Want RI Drivers to Hang up Cell Phones
From an article in yesterday’s projo, Amid growing reports nationwide of fatal car accidents tied to cell phone use, Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a pair of bills that would ban hand-held mobile telephones and prohibit text messaging while driving. As we reported earlier, there was a teen killed in Taunton not long ago, where… read more