Received an invite to Mayor Menino's press conference tomorrow, which will cover "Commonwealth Avenue Bike Lanes, Rack installations ... and one item yet to be announced."
A surprise for Boston's biking community! What do you think/hope it is? Selfishly, I'd like the city to extend the Mass. Ave. bridge bike lane another block to Beacon Street.
Press conference tomorrow at 11:00 in the courtyard of the BU School of Communications, 640 Commonwealth Ave. Bring your bike and your helmet.
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Perhaps a zipcar-like bike sharing program?
By Ron Newman
Mon, 08/04/2008 - 4:30pm
such as recently introduced to great success in Paris?
Excellent guess. John
By Goldie Wilson
Mon, 08/04/2008 - 4:31pm
Excellent guess. John Connolly is gonna get wi-fied!
In Germany
By Neal
Tue, 08/05/2008 - 9:58am
The Deutsche Bahn has had its call a bike program for at least four years. I've never used it, but judging from how many of the distinctive red bikes in DB livery I've seen in German cities, it seems to be quite successful.
and cities like Madison, WI
By pierce
Tue, 08/05/2008 - 4:23pm
and cities like Madison, WI and Portland, OR were doing this in the early to mid 90s
Bike sharing is in the
By J
Mon, 08/04/2008 - 5:49pm
Bike sharing is in the works. 3 or 4 companies are competing for the contract.
The surprise is probably that they plan on removing all bikes locked to fences, benches and trees again because their new bike racks arent enough.
Bike Share RFI, Bike Lanes, and Bike Racks
By tblade
Wed, 08/06/2008 - 10:46am
Here's the press release from the Mayor's Office:
The .pdf of the RFI can be found on the city's Boston Bikes page or downloaded here.