Rhode Island Bicycle Coalition

The post below first appeared on the Bike Newport blog. Source:   Pick Your Ride with Clean Ocean Access

The post below first appeared on the Bike Newport blog. Continue at source –  Bike Newport Night 2019!

Bike Newport Night 2019 – new location! We LOVE our friends at our past location – Midtown Oyster Bar – thanks for all the great years upstairs! And we LOVE our friends at our NEW location – PARLOR Bar & Kitchen – THANK YOU for bringing us to the ground floor where even more of us can celebrate BIKE PROGRESS. We can’t wait for this party! There’ll be singing, dancing, thrilling and chilling – and lots of great food and drink as we celebrate Bike Newport and fundraise for the PUMP TRACK at the Big Blue Bike Barn! Fantastic food, amazing auction items, VeloSprint Racing,  the best live music, and the annual GRAND PRIZE bike! What’s this Pump Track, you ask? Well, just as we’re breaking ground, cutting doors, designing gardens, planning the murals and trails for our spring buildout at the Big Blue Bike Barn – the Housing Authority has generously DOUBLED the land they’re making available to us. Talk about partners! Why? Because they know that our young people STILL need a place to ride and play away from cars – and what better place than a PUMP TRACK? The kids are too stoked for words – and so are we – so let’s build this thing! And yes – of course, YOU can ride there, too! we’ll just let the kids go first 🙂 The Pump Track will make a great thing even better –  The Bike Barn already has work underway for program areas and shelter from the sun. For solar panels and community gardens and a connecting trails into Miantonomi Park. Now we’ve added a Pump Track to the plan. This is all thanks to YOU – our fellow dreamers and doers – and your support and enthusiasm. And we couldn’t be more grateful. Exciting silent auction donations are rolling in from many of our business friends. Check back often – here and on our Facebook Event page – and do spread the word! So COME TO BIKE NEWPORT NIGHT and CELEBRATE. Questions about the event? Want to volunteer or donate to the auction? Whatever you need, just contact Allyson McCalla (401) 619-4900 allyson@bikenewportri.org. See you soon! The kids are waiting! The post Bike Newport Night 2019 – Fund The Pump Track! appeared first on Bike Newport.

The post below first appeared on the Bike Newport blog. Link to article: Big Blue Bike Barn Plans Just Got BIGGER!

(Newport, RI) There’s an exciting project sprouting on the north side of Miantonomi Park, and it just got even more exciting. The campus of Newport’s Big Blue Bike Barn – due to open this Spring – is getting a lot bigger, READ MORE

The post below first appeared on the Bike Newport blog. See the original article here –  The Second Annual Farm to Farm Ride!

The post below first appeared on the Bike Newport blog. Continue reading:  Get Ready for the Second Annual Farm to Farm Ride!

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has withdrawn proposed changes to State Transportation Improvement Program.  This includes the proposal to cut $27 million from bike/ped projects in Transportation Alternatives. Citing an unanticipated influx of $70 million in federal funds allocated READ MORE

RIDOT wants to divert $27 million away from projects intended to make biking and walking in the state better.  State Transportation Improvement Plan (STIP) Major Amendment 11 proposes to reduce the Transportation Alternatives program by nearly $27 million in the READ MORE

The Town of Portsmouth, RI, is planning to vote on a resolution at the next town council meeting in response to RIDOT’s proposed Statewide Transportation Improvement Program Major Amendment #11. The Amendment proposes to cut $26.52M from the Transportation Alternatives READ MORE