A good day in the neighborhood!

Dotriderblog was already in a good mood riding to work on this beautiful October Wednesday. He was smiling, thinking about today’s post extolling the hard work and community connection of Meeting House Bank’s President Tony Paciulli. It was he who said OK to putting a bike rack in front of his branch in Lower Mills. He indicated he took a rack after quite a hoo hah was stirred up by Dotbike’s request to put one in front of the Ice Cream Smith at the other end of the block. Dotbike’s request seemed reasonable given there’s a sign in the window indicating that there are bike maps for sale… We know we took photos from there for the dotbike flickr site with bikes strapped to sign posts in front of said establishment, but they haven’t shown up (we have a couple more hard discs to search…). Sadly the property owner isn’t the same person as the business owner and the property owner strenuously objected. Well we’ll keep on working on Tony to find a way to get to his testy neighbor so he may relent one day… But back to why I was REALLY smiling by the time I got to work in JP… It would appear as though Columbia Road has bike lanes! Here’s a link to the dotbike flickr site which may be the first to hit the digital world. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotbike More later! Columbia Road is basically an east west spur (although it heads southeast from its origin in South Boston all the way to Blue Hill Avenue in it’s completeness) through Dorchester. Historically and in pure Dorcester manner it is the unfinished link in the Emerald Necklace. We’ll have to take a ride down to see how far the lanes go, but now another two block segment of dotrigerblog’s ride from Dot to JP is covered by lanes! In the past two years dotriderblog has seen a sharo installed on the 100 yard segment of American Legion Parkway we ride, installed lanes on Circuit Drive in Franklin Park, added lanes and a segment of dangerous sharrow on Talbot Avenue and now added the segment of Columbia Road we ride. Slated are sharrows on the segment of Dot Ave we ride each morning…(Gotta measure that stretch for sure…). For all dotriderblog’s complaining something good is happening! We’re happy today, but of course we want more to be satisfied!

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