Bad Science: Morning Ride Poll

I know this is not statistically or scientifically valid, but on my morning ride in I like to poll the other cyclists I see.

Today I saw the following (all numbers estimates):

about 30-40 cyclists (high for a day like today)
95% wore a helmet
60% ladies
40% gents
30% single speeds
70% geared bikes

I am excited to see so many ladies out riding, I feel like there has been a giant increase in both the amount of people riding and the quality of their riding. Many more people are following the law, riding in a normal manner, and the increase in the number of lady cyclists tells me that the city is starting to feel more bike friendly (ladies tend to have better common sense and take less risks).

What was your morning commute like?

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Bike N Bowl Ride

From the Boston Cyclists Union:

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Bike n Bowl Ride
Saturday, February 26 · 12:00pm – 5:00pm

Starting Location: Copley Square, intersection of Dartmouth & Boylston, across the street from Boston Public Library. 2nd Pick-Up Location: Riverway T Stop, Inbound at 12:45pm—

All this snow have you in the gutter? Its time to get out and go bowling with the Boston Cyclist Union.

Saturday Feb 26th, meet at Copley Sq at 12:00pm for a ride down to Ron’s Bowling/Ice Cream in Hyde Park. $10 gets you shoes and 2 games of candle pin, they even made us a special ice cream cake! Please bring cash since we had to pay in advance to reserve our spot. Bring lights for the ride home ITS THE LAW! Helmets encouraged, and a bicycle lock for when we are bowling. Bring extra money if you wish to buy pizza/snacks/drinks.

More info: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188768411156838

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Tony Kornheiser Is A Moron

Seriously? This is got to be the stupidest thing I have ever had to listen to. Guess the fight continues.

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Make Biking A Priority For Federal Transportation Dollars

Got this in the email, the MPO is where the money is, so this is kind of important, I would urge as many of you as possible to let them know that we need biking to be a serious part of our plans moving forward.

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Boston Region MPO Begins Development of New Long¬-Range Transportation Plan;
Invites Ideas from the Public on Title for New Plan

The Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is beginning work on a new Long-¬Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) that will establish a 25¬year vision for the transportation system in the MPO’s 101¬-municipality area in eastern Massachusetts. The LRTP will provide a foundation for future transportation planning in the region, since the MPO members will look at the visions and policies defined in that planning document when making decisions about which transportation projects and programs to support with the federal transportation dollars they are charged with allocating. The development of the LRTP will involve a robust public participation process, as the MPO aims to develop a plan that addresses the transportation needs of residents of the region and supports regional priorities.

Federal transportation legislation requires MPOs to prepare a new LRTP every four years. The LRTP describes the MPO’s visions and policies, and includes a network of transportation projects and programs that are consistent with those visions and policies. As a fiscally constrained document, the LRTP includes only projects and programs that can be funded by projected revenues. The Boston Region MPO’s last LRTP, JOURNEY TO 2030, was adopted in 2007, and was amended in the fall of 2009. The MPO must adopt the next LRTP by April 2011.

In the new LRTP, the MPO will establish strategies for addressing regional priorities, including: enhancing livability; promoting healthy transportation alternatives; improving mobility, safety, and security for users of the transportation system; advancing environmental justice; addressing climate change and air quality; and improving operations and management of the transportation system. Many of these themes were also a focus in the current plan.

The MPO will approach the development of the new LRTP by conducting a needs assessment that identifies mobility challenges in the region. For this work, the MPO plans to make use of data and analyses from the MPO’s Congestion Management Process, which is used to monitor the performance of the region’s transportation system, and other planning work that has been completed. It will also fold in ideas gathered from other outreach initiatives, such as youMove Massachusetts. The MPO will also invite members of the public to give feedback about their transportation needs.

This work will lead to the development of various networks of projects, programs, and strategies designed to help meet the region’s transportation needs. These networks will be evaluated by using the MPO’s computerized transportation models. With input from the public, the network that would best meet the region’s transportation needs will be selected for the LRTP.

For more information about the development of the LRTP and how members of the public can participate, please visit the MPO’s website, www.bostonmpo.org.

The MPO staff also invites members of the public to help name the new LRTP. The title should reflect the MPO’s desire to promote sustainability in the region. It should also include “2035,” which is the date used as the “planning horizon” for the next LRTP. Title suggestions should be submitted via e¬mail to [email protected] by Friday, March 26.

The Boston Region MPO is responsible for conducting regional transportation planning and for programming federal capital funding for transit and highway projects in 101 municipalities in eastern Massachusetts. The MPO members include transportation and planning agencies and organizations, and municipalities.

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Between The Lanes: A Documentary About Biking In Boston

I may or may not be in this film…my part might have been cut, but either way check it out! Director comments below.

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So, this little movie I’ve been making is finally coming together, and will be screening as part of the Emerson BFA series at the Coolidge Corner Theater THIS Friday.

The show starts at 10am, and my documentary titled “Between the Lanes” is on third in the order, so I expect it to be screening sometime around 10:45.

If you’re interested please come on down and support it. Maybe it’ll go somewhere later this Summer too, but for now this is the only scheduled screening.

What: Between the Lanes, a documentary about biking in Boston
Where: Coolidge Corner Theater
When: 10am, be there by 10:30 to be sure to catch it (be warned: if you come after 10 you will be walking in on someone else’s presentation.)

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