Bicycles And The MBTA Presentation At BU

For those of you interested in this sort of thing. Thanks Marcie for the heads up!

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Despite facing many challenges (among them perennial funding and maintenance problems, an aging infrastructure, and a wide range of vehicles), the MBTA has embraced intermodal connectivity and multimodal trips by adding extensive and innovative bicycle parking, outfitting its buses with bike racks, expanding bicycle access to MBTA vehicles, and partnering with the City of Boston to combine bike sharing and public transportation.
Speaker(s): Erik Scheier is Project Director for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
When
Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:00pm until 9:00pm on Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011
Where
CAS (426)
Who
Open to General Public
Admission is free
Contact
City Planning and Urban Affairs
Enrique R Silva
[email protected]
617.358.3264

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Update: Pedestrian Injury Near BU

Got this just now, anyone have details?

Thanks for the update Galen.

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Just heard preliminary news of a fairly severe accident at BU’s central campus, outside of 675 Comm Ave (Stone Science), corner of Granby St. Bike on car, the rider’s a girl, police arrived and closed down street, EMS on scene and likely transported biker to hospital. Lots of witnesses. Bad news, I hope she isnt hurt bad.

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I have reports that it was a pedestrian and not a cyclist? Anyone got any other information on this. It wouldn’t surprise me at all the way people drive/cross the street in that area. While I am never happy when anyone gets injured, it would be nice to not have any more cyclists go down.

the young woman struck by a vehicle on Comm. Ave. was a BU student and was walking, not riding — there was no bike involved. She was taken to the hospital

Thanks for the tip Jenny

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Invitation To Boston Bicycle Safety Summit

Got this in the email, has details about the safety summit.

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Please join us for Mayor Menino’s Bicycling Safety Summit on Wednesday April 21, 2010 from 5:30 – 7:00 PM at BU’s Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA.

The Summit will gather area bicyclists and high-ranking city officials to discuss ways of improving safety for everyone who uses Boston’s roadways. The session will feature short speeches followed by a longer, open question and answer session. Our goal is to collectively begin to understand how to make Boston’s roads as safe as possible for all users.

Featured speakers and/or panelists include:
Mayor Thomas M. Menino
Boston Police Commissioner, Ed Davis
Boston Transportation Commissioner, Thomas Tinlin
Boston EMS Chief, James Hooley
State Transportation Secretary, Jeffrey Mullan
MBTA General Manager, Rich Davies
Boston Bikes Director, Nicole Freedman

The Mayor’s announcement of the Summit comes in the wake of a third recent bike accident and ahead of Boston Bike Week next month. For more information, please see: http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?id=4624

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