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This Sunday is the first in a series of Circle the City Events.  http://www.emeraldnecklace.org/circle-the-city The festivities will be happening in Franklin Park on the Playstead.  All sorts of family friendly activities happening including:

• Fitness and Yoga classes, Zumba and Hula Hooping
• Street Hockey clinics with the Boston Bruins and Bruins Defenseman Andrew Ference. Pre-register is…

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A message to all members of JP Bikes

Come to the Connolly Library in JP on Monday at 5:30 for this excellent documentary and forum on how people use public spaces. It's especially relevant given all of the local…

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Saturday Sept. 24th

Move Beyond Fossil Fuels

A global day of action to raise awareness to move ourselves beyond fossil fuels.  Continue

We've been kicking around an idea to rent HubWay bikes downtown and do some sightseeing, eating, drinking, and generally figuring out how to use this new resource to the fullest. Please comment here on ideas of where we could go and what we could do.

I'm well overdue on an update on the progress of the Casey replacement project. Hopefully, this update will get you up to speed and motivate you to get involved since we're at the point where public input will start to sway and shape the opinions of those that will ultimately decide what happens here.



I was chosen to be on the Working Advisory Group (WAG) for this project back in April, representing the Boston Cyclists Union, JP Bikes, and other nearby neighborhood cycling groups.… Continue

We're due for some rides! I've been busy with a new job and some of our other organizers have been busy with a new baby, but if some of you guys can help out, we can still do some of these rides. Normally we'd do one in June, and it looks like this Sunday has some great weather for a change. I'm thinking the bike train up to Rockport might be a nice option. If anyone is interested in heading up that way, then please let me know by responding to this blog post or using our contact page in the… Continue

Here's a survey I put together to get some comments on what cyclists would prefer in the Casey Overpass redesign. Some of these questions are based on a questionnaire that I had to fill out as part of the process. So if you ride through here, or if you want to but don't for some reason, then please fill it out. Here's the link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/L3D7Y37

 

Thanks to everyone that came out on Sunday. The weather was just great, although not quite as warm and sunny as the day before. Just under 100 riders rolled through JP and were greeted by cheery neighbors and a few car horns (mostly friendly), not to mention a very efficient and thorough police escort. Check out the pictures in our photos section, and look for more fun rides this summer at jpbikes.org.… Continue

Update 3: See my comment below asking for desired connections and "desire lines" within the Casey area. I need to provide this feedback at the Working Advisory Group meeting.

 

Update 2: The first public meeting discussing the replacement of the overpass is this Wednesday March…

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The City has just announced a public meeting this Thursday, April 16 at 7pm at the main branch of the Boston Public Library. This meeting will gauge public support for the long-awaited bike lanes on Mass Ave between Symphony Hall and the Harvard bridge over the Charles. This might be the most well traveled and most desired stretch of road in Boston for cyclists, and the most desired for addition of a bike lane. It's very short notice but it's imperative that cyclists get to this…

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Please come to this, it's always neat to think in terms of networks instead of just individual streets or intersections. Please take a look at a recent draft of the network, attached here.

%2B%2BDraft%20Boston%20Network%20Base.pdf

And here's the blurb from the city. See you…

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The first public meeting of the Forest Hills Casey Overpass Project is this coming Wednesday April 6th in the Agassiz School. This meeting will start with an Open House from 6:00-6:30, where the public can view display boards of the history of this area, current conditions, and other interesting info while having access to the project planners and engineers for one on one discussions. Following that will be a presentation by the planners and engineers, followed by time for questions. A…

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(Updated March 30 with plans attached, see below)

 

Just got this from Kyle over at the JPNDC. The flyer is attached below. Basically, they're re-working that whole intersection as part of the Jackson Square redevelopment. It should vastly improve the crosswalk across Centre that links the SWC path at Jackson Square. Right now, the crosswalk and ramps are narrow, and the T-station side is offset from the path such that you have to negotiate a tight turn, often…

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Next Tuesday, March 1, the DRC and Emerald Necklace Conservancy will be holding a public meeting to discuss the Eliot Street and Jamaica Way crossings project. The meeting is to discuss the Eliot Street crossing schedule, but there's always time to talk about other aspects of the larger project, specifically the Kelly Circle crossings which I believe have relevance to bikes as well as peds. The meeting is in the Hunnewell building at the main entrance to the Arboretum, at 7:00.… Continue

We haven't been in touch for awhile but there's lots going on. It's still cold, but riding conditions are about as good as they've been in awhile. I saw some flattened brown grass the other day. And cars (for the most part) aren't parked in the bike lane on Centre any more. So let's join the Boston Cyclists Union for a ride on Saturday afternoon from Copley Square down to Hyde Park for bowling and ice cream. It's probably a seven or eight mile ride each way…

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Dress up yourself and your bike and join hundreds of others in the biggest, loudest bike ride of the year! Meet in front of Green Street station at 8:00pm. Hope to see you there.… Continue