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There are 12 comments on Mayor: Boston to Be World-Class Biking City

  1. It would be nice if someone paid attention to getting cyclists off the bleeping sidewalks. You never see a cop on a beat stopping these errant cyclists, and I’m not talking about young children. I am ranting about the adults with the speedos and helmits etc. And don’t get me going about how traffic laws are not enfoced in Boston. Red and yellow lights are ignored. People drive into intersections when it is obvious that they can’t clear it before the light changes an NO ONE DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT!. I even see police cars speeding up through yellow lights, not stopping before making a right on red and not using turn signals. What a fine example.

  2. I haven’t seen the lane yet (I’m on the medical campus) but is this a two-way lane? e.g. no passing? 4-5 feet is not that much if there is traffic in two directions. Looking forward to slapping my tires on this new lane!

  3. This is encouraging. However, as Officer Shin points out, bikers have responsibilities, no matter what. The general lack of bike lanes is no excuse to go tearing down the sidewalks. Sometimes it seems a significant number of hotheaded cyclists are trying to make Boston among the worst cities for *pedestrians*!

  4. The bike lanes are a start but we need to stop cars, buses, and trucks from double-parking in these lanes. This is particularly a problem in front of Warren Towers where cyclists have to veer out into traffic to avoid the parked buses. Isn’t there a better area for them to park?

  5. If only cyclists didn’t need to worry about their bike getting “removed” when they lock up their bike on comm ave. Having bike lanes is great, but what’s the point if people can’t lock their bikes to anything on comm ave? Besides being a public relations move, the Boston Bikes program needs to create a functional program that looks beyond riding bikes and addresses what happens to them when they get where they are going. Where are the freaking bike racks!!!!!?!?!?!? More than 20 people ride bikes to BU…

  6. I sent some pics over to Streetsblog.org documenting the constant illegally parked cars in the Boston bike lane.

    http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/08/bostons-first-bike-lanes-a-hit-with-drivers/

    Furthermore, why do BUPD have tricycles and why are they driving around doing wheelies on them?

    And finally, Menino should be chastized for being so selfish in the matter of urban transportaion – specifically bicycles. Only when it was in his interest (ie when he started to enjoy biking) did he start to make Boston bike friendlier. Boston should have always been bike friendly, but we had to wait until Menino found creating a better bike culture was in his best interest.

    Pretty pathetic.

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