Bikes Lanes On Com. Ave. Meeting Tonight At Boston Public Library, Speak Out For More Bike Lanes!

There’s important meeting tonight, the City of Boston will propose installing bike lanes on Comm Ave from Kenmore to the Public Garden.

The meeting is on 8/31 at 6PM at the Boston Public Library. (THAT IS TONIGHT!!!!)

For the success of this project, it will be particularly critical to have as many project proponents as possible that live or work on the street or in the neighborhood (or commute on Commonwealth Avenue on a regular basis by bike). I have it on good authority that a certain neighborhood group is planning on opposing this bike lane. This bike lane would be a valuable addition to bicycle infrastructure in this city. If you support such a thing go and make your voice be heard!

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Public Meeting: Green Line Extension Project

Got the following today, perhaps someone could go tell these people that we would like to see some way to take bikes on the green line, especially if they are going to take an already woefully bad line and make it bigger…

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Monday, March 9th Brooks elementary school, 388 high street Medford
Wednesday, March 11th Somerville High School, 81 Highland Ave somerville

5:30 project open house
6:30-8:30 meeting presentation and questions

The Green Line Extension Project is an initiative of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation in coordination with the MBTA. The project will extend existing MBTA Green Line service from Lechmere station through the communities of Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford with an extension of the main line to Route 16 and an adjunct line to Union Square.

EOT will present an overview of the project, an environmental analysis, recommendations for station sites, and the preferred project alignment.

You are invited to attend either of the meetings public input results in better projects.

To request access of language accomodations, please call Regan Checchio at 617-357-5772 at least ten days in advance.

Directions and more project information are available at www.greenlineextension.com

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DCR To Hold Meeting On Neponset Bridge Rehab

As anyone who has ridden over this thing can tell you, it can be a bit of a hard slog. It would be great to see some improvements made for bikes…and to have that f-ing HUGE pothole fixed (on the Quincy side of the river heading north…holy crap is it big). I would also be down with fixing up the sidewalks so people wont break a leg when walking over it…maybe some bike lanes….you know that sort of thing. If you think the same way I do get your butt to this meeting and let the DCR hear about it!

(thanks Dotbike for the heads up)

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Replacing the deck on the Neponset River Bridge between Dorchester and Quincy will be on the agenda at a Department of Conservation and Recreation meeting next Tuesday. The rehabilitation is part of Gov. Deval Patrick’s Accelerated Bridge Program, which will spend $3 billion statewide and $906 million on DCR bridges. The work on the Neponset bridge is set to begin in late 2009. The public is invited to give input on the project on Tues., Feb. 10, 6 p.m. at Quincy City Hall, 1302 Hancock St., Quincy.

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BU and Craigie Bridges Update: January 27, 2009

BU and Craigie Bridges Update: January 27, 2009

Boston-Area Cyclists: Please Attend This Meeting!

The DCR is holding this follow-up meeting for the first two projects in the Accelerated Bridge Program. The initial public meetings on the BU and Craigie Bridges were very well-attended by the cycling community. When the DCR presented plans that did not adequately address bicycling, the negative response from cyclists was immediate, and the DCR heard you! The DCR has now promised a series of steps to ensure that bicycling needs are better addressed on these bridges and throughout the rest of the program. At this meeting, the DCR will show us their revised plans. We need lots of bicyclists at this meeting to give a strong response to whatever we see, good or bad. Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 6-8 pm, Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center, MIT, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge.

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