As we head into the weekend that George Bush and his gang figured to be a good one for day light savings it’s been a quiet time for biking. We’ve been enjoying some good rides and the travel time has returned to pre-snow times for my usual trips.
Questions abound as we head into the construction season…. How will the Dot Ave half assed job go this year? Will any of the Share the Road signs or NO PARKING in BIKE LANES signs appear? Will get get an equal expansion of lanes and sharrows as we got last year? Will anyone come back and finish the jobs left undone for 9 weeks last fall?
The laugh I got this week was talking to a friend of mine from near Fargo, North Dakota. She said she’d been in Boston on a cruise. She booked a bike tour in down town and had a blast! That was the source of my suggestion for a name for the ill-fated bike share program which I actually submitted. Tourista-Ride. Just honest advertising in my name. Since they’re with the T they could put a circle around the T in tourista (the first or/and second one in fact).
Even though there isn’t much snow the Glen Road portion of Franklin Park has entered into its Glacial Period. Thanks Mr. Lynch!
The new bike shop in Dorchester looks like it will be awesome. I heard they even sold a bike already! Otherwise they’re cleaning off a lot of dust and finding screws as I slowly bring my aged fleet down and have them repaired beyond levels most of them have seen in years. Ashmont Cycles, or as I affectionally call it Jack’s Pelleteria. (the owner’s name is Jack Pelletier…) is one of the best things to come along for Dorchester in a while. There’s a lot of folks trying to do good things and this is a great example. I hope he makes a million!
Pedal on and we’ll see you out there somewhere!
There’s a survey out on the “Missing Link” between the Neponset and Harbor pathways. Glad to see they went back to our description. It is so true. Let’s hope there’s some real progress on it this year.
Otherwise dotriderblog may well be turning more attention to disc golf. We have already helped start one that is due to be constructed in the next six weeks on Nantucket. There’s one waiting to spring forth in Pope John Paul II (yuk who picked that name?) Park. We’ve done a demonstration at Franklin Park’s Snow Fest and we’re invited to their opening day on May 14th. See you there!
