Some Good News For Dorchester Biking

From DotBike:

A few things are shacking up this spring on the Dorchester bike scene.  Sorry, my editor is on a break, so I am going to drop a load of poorly edited information and highlight the essential parts.

Jen Rowe is a recently hired enthusiastic Active Transportation Planner for the City of Boston. Among other things, she is scouting for new Bluebikes station locations in Dorchester.  On Wednesday, we took a walk around Fields Corner.  We should soon get a year around location in front of the T station, and possibly another one at another location yet to be determined, which would be amazing.  We spotted three potential spaces in Fields Corner for a second permanent station. Each one seems technically possible, but may present some authorization/permitting challenges. Other areas are also under serious consideration, this includes Shawmut and Ashmont. There are actually more new stations in Dorchester/Mattapan than I realized; it’s just that I don’t happen to live near them! I copied below a map from the City’swebsite on bike share expansion.

Next is the text from an email I received from Eliza Parad, Director of organizing at the Boston Cyclist Union.  It has some important announcements. Please join if you can -especially the ride with Councillor Andrea Campbell.  Unfortunately, I will be out of town that day.

*  First of all, I am reaching out to let all the groups that signed on to our letter about Mass Ave to the City to share the news that the Mayor announced in his proposed transportation budget that bike lanes will be extended down Mass Ave to the intersection with Columbia Road! Planning will start in the fall and implementation will happen in 2020. He didn’t say what kind of bike lanes, so as always, we will need folks to come out and advocate for protected bike lanes, but this is a big step forward and it’s thanks to advocacy from so many people and groups, including DotBike!

*  I wanted to share that if anyone in DotBike lives in Andrea Campbell’s district, we are hosting a ride with her next Friday so she can experience what cyclists feel when they ride on unprotected lanes (or roads with no infrastructure at all). This is part of our Boston Bike Budget Campaign to raise the funding level this year for Vision Zero and the Strategic Bike Network. 

*  We also have a City-Wide Glacial Pace of Progress Rally and Ride (at a much more accessible time for most people than the ride with Andrea Campbell) on Sunday, May 5 at 2pm. We hope to have hundreds of folks at that ride and wanted to make sure DotBike knows about it. 

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