Posts Tagged ‘biking’
South Water St. will restore traffic lanes, expand parking, move bike lanes. Not till 2025, for $4M
Photo: Pamela Bhatia, Artistic Images In a statement from Providence Mayor Smiley’s office: New plan eases traffic congestion caused by Washington Bridge, addresses key concerns of cyclists, saves the City money: Mayor Brett P. Smiley, Councilman John Goncalves, and the Providence Department of Planning and Development today announced plans for the development of a new…
Read MoreBig Blue Bike Barn event in Newport – off-street, ride-safe family event
The Bike Barn campus, located on Sunset Blvd adjacent to Miantonomi Park, is a public space, excellent for bike riding in a safe, off-street area. The free community event – The Big Blue Bike Barn will be held there on Saturday, June 3rd, 2023, from 2 to 5pm, and it will be a fun-filled afternoon…
Read MoreHope Street biking fun derails on data, money and influence
The eight-day Hope Street bike trail trial ended at 6 pm on Saturday with what appears to have been a bike-a-thon to the street in the final few days. The results of the trial will be inconclusive because the survey the PVD Streets Coalition said they were conducting failed to reach out to the community…
Read MoreProvidence City Council wants a quick plan to transport students. Will biking be a part?
Transportation for Providence Students At last night’s Providence City Council meeting, and with RIPTA’s warning that fixing their driver shortage problems is a longer term issue, a resolution was passed calling on the Providence Public School District (PPSD), Providence administration and the RI Department of Education to “quickly” develop a public transportation plan for Providence…
Read MoreRiding the Washington Secondary Bike Path – a hidden jewel – Jeff Gross
Editor’s Note: Our Friday Fishing Tips writer has “Gone Fishin’” – in Maine – and, unfortunately, the internet didn’t go with him at his present location – so we’ll rerun a popular column from 2021 – his trip riding down the Washington Secondary Bike Path. Stay tuned for more “Friday Fishing Tips” next week. Back…
Read MoreCOVID-19 presents unique opportunity to invest in bicycle infrastructure
by Bradly J. VanDerStad, biking enthusiast, for RINewsToday It’s deeply embedded in human nature to resist change. We have seen it across history: the 18th-century English Luddites destroyed machinery to protect their jobs and way of life, counter-protestors marched during the civil rights movement and in response to the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, and now, there…
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