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Bike to Work Day This Friday, and More Bike Month Events
May is MassBike's Bay State Bike Month, with dozens of bike rides, bike repair clinics, and other events all over the commonwealth. You can find a lot more events at MassBike's BayStateBikeMonth.org website, but here's a brief summary of some highlights:
May 17, 2022
Our Next Book Club Event Discusses ‘Right of Way’ with Angie Schmitt
Schmitt’s book provides a detailed investigation into how pedestrian deaths have increased by 50 percent in the past decade, and how our nation's persistent patterns of racism and economic inequality play into this under-reported public health crisis.
December 7, 2020
MBTA Board Updates: Details Emerge on Tobin Bus Lanes, Budget Cuts
MBTA budget planners now predict a $584 million budget deficit for the 2022 fiscal year, which starts next summer.
November 23, 2020
Saturday: ‘Celebration of Life’ Ride Aims to Bring Black Men Together on Bikes
Black men and other men of color are being invited to reflect, mourn, and heal together in a "Celebration of Life" bike ride through Roxbury this Saturday.
October 23, 2020
Rep. Ayanna Pressley Makes Surprise Appearance at Boston’s ‘Ride for Black Lives’
On Sunday, hundreds of riders gathered in Franklin Park for the summer's third Ride for Black Lives in Boston, which featured an appearance by Rep. Ayanna Pressley, co-chair of the Congressional Bike Caucus and a co-founder of Washington's Future of Transportation Caucus.
September 1, 2020
Exploring Boston’s Unbuilt Highways
Imagine a version of greater Boston where ten-lane expressways slice through Cambridgeport and Jamaica Plain, a freeway trench has replaced the Muddy River parkland through the Fenway, and a ten-story-high stack of interchange ramps looms over Nubian Square.
June 12, 2020
From the Editor: We’re Starting A Book Club
People Before Highways documents anti-highway activist movements in the Boston region in the 1960s, when unlikely coalitions stopped freeway proposals that would have demolished beloved neighborhoods and caused disproportionate harm to communities of color.
May 14, 2020
‘Public Process’ Without Public Meetings
As cities and towns across Massachusetts embrace increasingly strict "social distancing" measures to try and slow the spread of COVID-19, hundreds of public meetings across the state are being cancelled and major public planning initiatives have been put on hold while governments scramble to address the mounting public health crisis.
March 16, 2020
City of Boston Preliminary Elections Are Today
Today's top 8 vote-winners among a field of 15 at-large candidates – and the top two vote winners in each district race – will move ahead to compete in the general election on Nov. 5.
September 24, 2019
Photos: It’s Park(ing) and Climate Strike Day
And we've got another new Orange Line train.
September 20, 2019
