The Boston Cyclists Union organized an ad-hoc people-protected bike lane along Charles Street on Beacon Hill this morning to press the city to add more bike lanes to downtown and adjacent areas.
Bicycling
By adamg - 7/22/22 - 11:55 am
Organizers of the Columbia Threadneedle Investments Boston Triathlon today announced they've postponed the three-event competition until Aug. 20-21. Read more.
By adamg - 7/16/22 - 10:38 am
Erica Mattison was among the scores of bicyclists yesterday evening in Copley Square who set off for the first Boston Bike Party in a long time.
The Fort Pointer captured the procession through the Seaport (and, yes, one of the Seaport's Lambo drivers making the rounds): Read more.
By adamg - 6/10/22 - 3:48 pm
A group calling itself Cambridge Streets for All today sued to block the city from putting in any more bike lanes, accusing the city of recklessly ruining storeowners' livelihoods with plans to create the lanes. Read more.
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By adamg - 5/27/22 - 8:00 am
The Harvard Crimson provides an overview of the growing brouhaha over whether Cambridge should rescind the pandemic-inspired Saturday shutdowns of its river road. On the one hand: Bicyclists and others who appreciate the addition to the long-standing seasonal Sunday shutdown. On the other hand: Nearby residents who say they are trapped in their homes by drivers diverted from the road.
By adamg - 1/24/22 - 9:21 am
Eitan Normand shows us all the traffic cones now sitting on the Charles River below the Mass. Ave. Bridge. The state had put the cones down as part of a pilot to add bike lanes to the bridge.
MassDOT Administrator Jonathan Gulliver is pissed. Read more.
By adamg - 1/8/22 - 11:40 am
Boston Public Works shows us one of their mini-plows clearing the Mass. Ave. bike lane across from the Christian Science Center early this morning.
By adamg - 10/22/21 - 3:50 pm
The new bridge will connect the Assembly MBTA stop with the Northern Strand bicycle path. Read more.
By adamg - 10/2/21 - 9:47 pm
Cambridge Police report a man was robbed of his bike around 3 a.m. outside 359 Green St. in Central Square. Read more.
By adamg - 7/18/21 - 3:17 pm
Bicycle Retailer and Industry News reports a federal bankruptcy judge in Boston has appointed a trustee to oversee the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of CrimsonBikes on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge as it seeks to deal with three creditors - an e-commerce provider, a Boston-based non-profit developer and a customer who pre-paid for a bike he says he never got. Read more.
By adamg - 6/20/21 - 1:11 pm
Watertown News has the details on the Arlington Street crash (scroll down a page).
By adamg - 6/15/21 - 10:12 pm
Harris Cyclery in West Newton closed for good on Sunday after 70 years in business.
H/t Mike.
By adamg - 6/9/21 - 10:01 pm
Mark Anderson spotted this guy riding a penny farthing through the intersection of Washington Street and Ukraine Way this afternoon.
By adamg - 6/9/21 - 9:28 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
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