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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

On Two Wheels

Somerville Should Have 10 Bicycle Corrals—8 New Ones—by April

The DPW will reassemble the two that it stored over the winter and install eight new ones.

There will be many more places to park your bicycle in Somerville this spring. The city should see 10 corrals, which each hold 14 bikes, installed at destinations by April 1, according to transportation planner Sarah Spicer.  At the Somerville Bicycle Advisory Committee's March 20 meeting, Spicer, who serves as a liasion between the committee and the city's Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development, told members that it was likely that corrals would be installed here:  Somerville attained the corrals through a grant from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. In November, Spicer asked members of the bicycle committee and the public to tell her where they thought they should go.  The city will distribute brochures about the …

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Chris Orchard

11:01 am on Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Thanks for catching that, Courtney. Should be fixed now.   more ›

Monday, October 31, 2011

On Two Wheels

Bicycle Committee Continues to Urge City to Repair Beacon Street

Plus: more bicycle corrals might be coming to Somerville; the scope of the Hubway bicycle share program is growing and the committee is pushing for a bike lane on Temple Street.

The Somerville Bicycle Committee will continue to urge the city to smooth the uneven pavement on Beacon Street, according to minutes from the Oct. 18 meeting.  The committee has sent a letter to the mayor, the Department of Public Works and the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure asking officials to repair the road, which is the one bicyclists use most in the city. In the letter, the committee suggested that the city lay new pavement over the sections of the street that are in the worst condition, and it calculated that filling the potholes and flattening the patched ones would cost about $75,000. However, the DPW doesn't have enough money to repair the road before 2013, when the city will receive money from the federal …

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Jonah Petri

10:00 pm on Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Just checked at bostonmpo.org, and Somerville is still scheduled to get around $4M for Beacon St in 2013. (IIRC that's the federal fiscal year of 2013, so the money would be available on October 1, 2012...)   more ›

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