Bike4Life ride to raise funds for LivableStreets
The event is a celebration of the life of Bob Zeeb, a longtime Newton School administrator who died in a tragic bicycling accident in 2009. This year’s ride will benefit LivableStreets, an advocacy group for safe streets and vibrant communities. It will take...Tour de Newton Countdown!
Attention Tour-ists: you have 65 days left to get in shape (as of 8/2)! Lois Levin, Henry Finch and I have spent the last several weeks finalizing the 26+ mile, tour-safe route for the Oct. 6 Tour de Newton. It has been an absolute blast finding the centers of all 13...
Hubway on the Greenway
George Kirby from the Newton Bicycle/Pedestrian Task Force has put together an interesting proposal for bringing the HubWay bike-sharing system to the soon-to-be-built Upper Falls Greenway bike trail. The general idea is to install Hubway stations at the Needham...
Study for Needham bus shuttle falls flat
Given the financial state of the MBTA and the current prospects for a green line extension, Needham has been pressing hard for some way to use the old Upper Falls railroad corridor to spur economic development. Now available from the Metropolitan Area Planning...
The Highlands Link
Village14 regular Adam Peller was just telling me about an intriguing idea – let’s call it the Highlands Link. The state’s Department of Transportation (DOT) is working on plans that will extensively change traffic patterns in the southern side of...
Should Newton be part of Hubway?
I was perusing the minutes from the Newton Bicycle Advisory Committee and came across an interesting exchange about what it would take to bring the Hubway bike sharing program to Newton. The program recently expanded to Cambridge and Somerville with limited expansion...
Crazy Divers: Men be like...
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