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Blue Bikes Update: Over 75,000 Trips Taken During The Winter Challenge
Written by Boston Biker on Mar 07From the email:
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We’re pedaling through the final day of the Bluebikes Winter Challenge and ending this month on a high note. Despite the snow, sunshine, and even some rain, Bluebikes riders have taken more than 75,000 trips in February. That’s 30% more than the number of trips taken this time last year.
To celebrate this record-breaking February and the end of the Winter Challenge, join us for the Winter Challenge Rider Meetup, Thursday, March 7th. The event is free and open to anyone who took at least one trip during February. Stop by and pick up your challenge prizes, enjoy great food and music, and meet other Bluebikes riders.
- Where: Beat Brew Hall, 13A Brattle St, Cambridge
- When: Thursday, March 7th, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
If you took a Bluebikes trip, be sure to check your inbox for your email invite and RSVP to the event. Haven’t taken a trip this month? There’s still time! Take one quick Bluebikes trip by the end of the day today, Thursday, February 28th, and you’ll receive an invitation to the party via email. We’re excited to see you there!
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BnB Bike-A-Thon Update
Written by Boston Biker on Mar 0732nd ANNUAL BIKE-A-THON registration begins today March 1st through March 31st: 1/2 price for only $15!
Join the Bikes Not Bombs Community on its 32nd Annual Bike Ride for Social Change!
Our annual Bike-A-Thon is our largest community gathering and fundraiser of the year, with over 700 riders and volunteers! Bike-A-Thon participants like you are ambassadors of BNB’s mission to promote environmental sustainability and social justice. Whether you’re an experienced cyclist or a new rider, no matter what your age, everyone can ride and raise funds to help empower underserved communities locally and internationally. All fundraising goes directly to making Bikes Not Bombs’ local youth and international partnership programs possible!
Let’s get more people than ever before to ride together with us for social change on June 9th!
Contact Jennifer Licht, Director of Marketing and Communications, for sponsorship opportunities at [email protected]
Check out our Bike-A-Thon FAQ or [email protected] if you have more questions!
Highlights from last year’s 31st Annual Bike-A-Thon
Photos clockwise from top left taken by Donrick Pond, Diane Simpson, Donrick Pond, Donrick Pond, William Daniels
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The Boston Neighborhood Bike Organizing Leadership Institute
Written by Boston Biker on Mar 07- History of Transportation Organizing in Boston area led by Stuart Spina and Lee Matsueda from ACE
- Strategies for building a mass movement and changing public perception by Cicia Lee from Momentum
- Community Organzing 101 (relational organizing, moving power, choosing an issue and building a campaign, tactics and targets, 1:1s and leadership development)
- Infrastructure 101 (tools for designing and planning safe roads, aka, What is a “road diet” anyways?)
- Civics 101 (Who has the power to make this happen? What role does DCR, BTD, MassDOT, Boston City Councilors, State Reps, and City officials play.)
- A chance to develop and deepen relationships across neighborhoods and discuss our collective organizing strategy
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Cyclist Killed By Truck Driver
Written by Boston Biker on Feb 17In another in a sad series of drivers of large vehicles killing cyclists, Paula Sharaga age 69 was killed in Cambridge after being hit by a cement truck.
She was a peace activist, a librarian and will be missed sorely by her husband and family.
Details of the incident are still unclear, but what is clear is that whenever we hear of a pedestrian or cyclists being killed most of the time its someone driving a very large vehicle through a very crowded city. Almost always the very large vehicle is lacking basic safety gear that would make the vehicle more safe in these situations.
How many people will need to die, before we make massive changes to what sort of traffic we allow in our cities, and what sort of safety equipment we require for them to have? Large vehicles should have mandatory side guards, side mirrors, low mandatory speed limits, backup cameras, make them drive at non-peak traffic times, and for very very large vehicles mandatory front and rear safety vehicles to drive with them.
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Boston City Council Once Again Trying To Lower Speed Limit To 20mph
Written by Boston Biker on Nov 16As someone who has been hit by a couple cars, let me tell you 20mph or below is how fast you want the cars going.
From UHub:
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports. In 2016, the city reduced the default city speed limit from 30 to 25. You may recall that before the city did that, councilors approved a reduction to 20 but were stymied by state law. Councilors say that today, as then, the issue is safety – for pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers themselves.
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The Word On The Street
Here is what people are saying
- Blue Bikes Update: Over 75,000 Trips Taken During The Winter Challenge March 7, 2019TweetFrom the email: —————– We’re pedaling through the final day of the Bluebikes Winter Challenge and ending this month on a high note. Despite the snow, sunshine, and even some rain, Bluebikes riders have taken more than 75,000 trips in … Continue reading →Boston Biker
- Blue Bikes Update: Winter Challenge March 7, 2019TweetFrom the email: —————– We’re pedaling through the final day of the Bluebikes Winter Challenge and ending this month on a high note. Despite the snow, sunshine, and even some rain, Bluebikes riders have taken more than 75,000 trips in … Continue reading →Boston Biker
- BnB Bike-A-Thon Update March 7, 2019Tweet32nd ANNUAL BIKE-A-THON registration begins today March 1st through March 31st: 1/2 price for only $15! Join the Bikes Not Bombs Community on its 32nd Annual Bike Ride for Social Change! Our annual Bike-A-Thon is our largest community gathering and fundraiser … Continue reading →Boston Biker
- The Boston Neighborhood Bike Organizing Leadership Institute March 7, 2019TweetGot this sent to me, looks awesome! ——————— The Boston Neighborhood Bike Organizing Leadership Institute. It will be held on Saturday April 13 and 27 from 10am-4pm at 550 Dudley Street in Roxbury. Participants are expected to attend both days so please sign up with that goal … Continue reading →Boston Biker
- Cyclist Killed By Truck Driver February 17, 2019TweetIn another in a sad series of drivers of large vehicles killing cyclists, Paula Sharaga age 69 was killed in Cambridge after being hit by a cement truck. She was a peace activist, a librarian and will be missed sorely … Continue reading →Boston Biker
- Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston petition on Change.org February 15, 2019TweetOne Joshua Grolman has published a petition on Change. org asking for “protected bike lanes” on Centre Street, the main street through the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston. Centre Street is two-way, narrowed by parallel parking on both sides everywhere … Continue reading →jsallen
- Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston petition on Change.org February 15, 2019TweetOne Joshua Grolman has published a petition on Change. org asking for “protected bike lanes” on Centre Street, the main street through the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston. Centre Street is two-way, narrowed by parallel parking on both sides everywhere … Continue reading →jsallen
- Non-responsive signal actuators in Waltham November 30, 2018TweetWhy are we still seeing traffic-signal actuators which won’t trigger the signal for bicycles or motorcycles? I have made a short video of a Waltham intersection, Bedford and South Streets. This illustrates the problem which a bicyclist or motorcyclist faces … Continue reading →jsallen
- Non-responsive signal actuators in Waltham November 30, 2018TweetWhy are we still seeing traffic-signal actuators which won’t trigger the signal for bicycles or motorcycles? I have made a short video of a Waltham intersection, Bedford and South Streets. This illustrates the problem which a bicyclist or motorcyclist faces … Continue reading →jsallen
- Non-responsive signal actuators in Waltham November 30, 2018TweetWhy are we still seeing traffic-signal actuators which won’t trigger the signal for bicycles or motorcycles? I have made a short video of a Waltham intersection, Bedford and South Streets. This illustrates the problem which a bicyclist or motorcyclist faces … Continue reading →jsallen
