Hey! Boston Cops and EMS good job integrating bicyclists into your statistics. Fascinating to see that Mass Ave is perhaps the most dangerous stretch of road in Boston for cycling… Dot Ave came in the top 25 too. The self reported accidents had several at Blue Hill and Talbot and two in the stretch of Talbot Avenue that got sharrowed… Glad to see the T at least trying. That’s like trying to turn the Titanic. We got a number to complain everytime a bus stupidly pulls by me within 50 feet of their next stop. That’s good. Mass Dot? Don’t see much help there, although if I were the least bit interested in going over the Charles River they might be of more interest. Vineet Guptka of the Boston Transportation Department? He knows his stuff, but I believe I met him about 12 years ago at a Melville Park Association meeting where we were trying to get some traffic calming, most notably speed bumps. I believe it was he who swore to me up and down that there wasn’t ANY speed bumps on any road in Boston, which caused me to ask him when Eliot Street in JP was annexed into Brookline… (I did some research and Mr. Guptka had just begun his tenure in 1998 when he assure me of same, so perhaps I should cut him some slack since he may not have known about JP…) It must have been when it was indicated that South Street and Centre Street in JP is wider than Dot Ave south of Glover’s Corner that my memory of that Melville Park meeting arose setting off that Dorchester Chip on my shoulder. Perhaps the narrowest spot and certain stretches, but certainly NOT the entire stretch of that road. If they can alternate from lane to sharro and back in JP, why not in Dorchester?????…We’ll do the work to get it ALL figured out for our friends in Transportation… Thanks Nicole! I feel like I am doing something positive after you said I should do this. I like being positive instead of negative. Engage me more like this and actually respond and my loud complaints can easily turn into praise… It’s more fun for me to be for something than against something that’s for sure. I can’t say I think the ride share has been worthy of the time and effort you’ve put into it, especially with so many other worthy tasks to take on. More safety summits and/or open public meetings around other issues like organizing strategies to support biking at a community level would be good. Or perhaps a more interactive and attentive digital existance instead of more tiring meetings? If the Mayor has challenged us to see how it goes in the community, remember many of the folks yelling from their cars at riders urging us to get off the road show up at community meetings too and argue against ANY accomodation for cycling. So… watch for the dotriderblog survey of Dorchester Avenue.
