cyclin Comm. Ave.

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Archive for October, 2010

10/19/2010… BTD on a bike with tickets in tow! ;)

Posted: Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 @ 10:53 am in parking in bike lanes, thumbs up | 6 Comments »

TweetI was SO psyched to see someone riding a Specialized in the Comm. Ave. bike lanes (eastbound near Landry’s) who appeared to be a BTD employee with parking tickets hanging out of his back pocket 🙂 A bike-mounted BTD employee riding the Comm. Ave. lanes and ticketing illegally parked cars… now THAT’S what I’m talking […]

10/18/10

Posted: Monday, October 18th, 2010 @ 11:53 pm in Uncategorized | Comments Off on 10/18/10

Tweet~ 11:15 -> 11:45 am: Only ONE car parked illegally in bike lanes going in either direction Packard’s Corner to Kenmore Square and back. Seemed to be a BU-tian’s Mom unloading stuff to go up to Warren Towers. (I’m not counting the USPS truck parked on the outbound side that could have been out of […]

accident in Comm. Ave. bike lanes Eastbound, near Upper Crust

Posted: Saturday, October 16th, 2010 @ 12:34 am in Accidents/injuries (cyclists on Comm. Ave.) | Comments Off on accident in Comm. Ave. bike lanes Eastbound, near Upper Crust

Tweet A young male Hispanic cyclist was injured at ~11am on Comm. Ave. this morning on the inbound side near Upper Crust in a collision with a white car driven by an older caucasian gentlemen. I arrived after the first BPD officer on scene but before BFD, Boston EMS, additional BPD officers, etc. I spoke […]

Hi Cars!

Posted: Friday, October 8th, 2010 @ 4:12 pm in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

TweetHi all: I’m an urban planning student working on a project to try and address cycling/car/pedestrian behavior in Boston–particularly dealing with infrastructure lag (and getting everyone to use what we have, including our bike lanes, in a less contentious way). One of those ideas is to try and move from an aggressive “taking” of space […]

HELP!

Posted: Thursday, October 7th, 2010 @ 12:13 pm in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

TweetMy name is Lindsay. The last time I rode a bike was in a spin class. What am I doing on this site? Trying to gather some information for an article I’m writing about YOU, Sir/Madam Bicyclist. Someone gave me a bike about a year ago. I rode it down Beacon Street, once. And then […]

anotha day in the Comm. Ave. bike lanes…

Posted: Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 @ 8:46 am in thumbs down | 7 Comments »

Tweet10-5-2010 ~11 am: From Packard’s Corner to Kenmore saw only 2 vehicles parked illegally in the bike lanes: 1 commercial white van parked half in half out in block before Babcock (with plenty of room to move all the way into the legal spot) and the other… Landry’s vehicle double parked with blinkers in front […]

“Day 1″ of bloggin “cyclin Comm. Ave.”

Posted: Friday, October 1st, 2010 @ 12:57 am in thumbs down, thumbs up | 5 Comments »

TweetWelcome all! Yesterday I made it from Packard’s Corner almost all the way to Kenmore Square without one car parked illegally in the Comm. Ave. bike lanes… until a Boston University Housing Authority truck passed me to the left of the bike lane close enough to scare the heck outta me, then pulled over and […]