Wednesday, March 28, 2012
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 …
Monday, November 21, 2011
Catch up on news about bicycling in Somerville and suggest spots for parking.
The city plans to install seven more bicycle corrals this spring through a grant from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, according to Sarah Spicer, a representative from the city's department of transportation and infrastructure. The announcement elicited a collective "wow" from the members of the Somerville Bicycle Advisory Committee, who met Nov. 15 at City Hall and who regularly encourage city officials to expand bicycle infrastructure. The Department of Public Works recently installed two bicycle corrals, one of which takes up a parking space in front of Davis Square's Diesel Cafe and another in front of Union Square's Bloc 11 Cafe. Each holds 14 bicycles. True Grounds, in Ball Square, will receive a corral in the spring, …
Monday, October 31, 2011
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 …
Chris Orchard
11:01 am on Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Thanks for catching that, Courtney. Should be fixed now. more ›