“People need to reimagine what’s possible in terms of exercising outside, riding to work when it’s colder.”
BEHIND THE CURVE
Hubway’s low-income program goes regional, but infrastructure’s still inadequate As the bike-sharing industry becomes a multibillion-dollar race across the country, cycling options for Bostonians are getting more affordable and more competitive. In Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, and Somerville, Hubway reigns due to exclusive contracts with those cities. The publicly owned and privately operated service, which was […]
JAMMED UP
Is Boston cycle infrastructure getting better faster than congestion gets worse? Matt bikes daily. He says that one of those days last summer, while biking past the Harvard Coop in Cambridge, he saw a car with an Uber sign parked in the bike lane. When he began to steer around the Uber, the car almost […]
THE BALLAD OF BIKING IN BOSTON
Dispatches from my daily dance with death en route to work I edge off the sidewalk. I look left and then right. Then left and then right again. One more time to be sure. I merge towards the rightmost edge of the street, but there is no bike lane so I teeter between the curb and the […]
VICIOUS CYCLE (DATA EDITION)
Boston’s ugliest intersections for cyclists If you’ve visited the streets of Boston for all of five minutes, you know that each commute is a gamble for those of us who ride on two wheels. An hour spent navigating the Hub’s bike-hostile infrastructure teaches the average cyclist how to anticipate threats — an adjacent car blindly drifting into the bike […]