Ride Boldly!

As part of the opening of the National Bicycle Summit, the Bikes Belong Coalition introduced their new advocacy campaign: People for Bikes. The web site is live at http://peopleforbikes.org, and operates on the principle that there are 250,000 bicycle advocates, but 50 million cyclists.
The campaign aims to link the two.
Much of it was developed by [...]

Been pretty busy lately, but as the (first) thaw gets underway, there are goings on here in the tundra and elsewhere.

The Winona Bridge, about which I have written a billion times following its brief closure in Summer 2008, is now scheduled for ‘rehabilitation’ in 2014. Everyone gets to take their chances on this fracture-critical structure [...]

The St. Paul Grand Round is probably one of the best-known and best-mapped routes in St. Paul. Pieces of it show up in many routes through St. Paul, including several in the maps area of Ride Boldly!
As such, it’s always nice to see new rest stop opportunities open up along the route. Yesterday, near Raymond [...]

In winter, Minnesotans have meetings. Well, they do in summer too, but…
If you want to speak out for or against various plans surrounding cycling in the Twin Cities, a few more opportunities are upcoming:

Public Hearing for Bryant Avenue S Bicycle Boulevard (Minneapolis) – This will be happening on February 9 at Bryant Square Park in [...]

Winter is a good time to clean out the buckets of bike stuff and attend… swap meets!

Twin Cities Bike Swap Meet – February 14, at the National Sports Center. $5 admission to a really giant event. Tables $40 to sell.
TCBC Swap Meet – March 27, at the Hopkins VFW. Free entry, free to sell for [...]

The Met Council is looking at funding several trail projects in Anoka County – one to build a ‘missing link’ in the Rum River Trail corridor, and a second to build two canal-crossing bridges, from Anoka’s Mississippi Community Park nearly 2 miles up the river to the undeveloped Mississippi West Regional Park in Ramsey.
Meanwhile, Senators [...]