1999 Past Massachusetts Bicycle Meetings

Bike to the Sea Meeting

Thursday January 7, 7:00 pm at 83 Jacob St. in Malden

We'll be planning events for next year, including Bike to the Sea VI and our Bike Helmet Sign that will be along Route 107 in Saugus next week.

For information, contact Steve Winslow, SteveNine@aol.com.

Framingham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee

Tuesday January 12 at 7:30 in Room 130 of the Memorial Building, 150 Concord Street, Framingham.

MassBike/Pioneer Valley Meeting

Wednesday, January 13 at 7:00 PM, Room 304, Seelye Hall, Smith College, Northampton

Preliminary Agenda

Identification of PV Hot Spots

Bicycle Pavilion (Hadley Bike Museum) -- Vicki Elson/Matt Blumenfeld

Northampton Cycling Club -- John Frey

RailTrail updates

Progress report and action plan for Bike/Ped Committees (Northampton, Agawam...)

Update on Hadley Route 9 shortcuts -- Dave Crout?

Route 9 Coolidge Bridge update and action plan (Rosenberg meeting; media contacts; MassHighway responses; critical mass ride)

Organize breakfast with elected officials (Olver, Storey, Flavin, Rosenberg, Neal, Nagle, etc.) to put forth our general agenda?

As always, refreshments will be served.

For further info, email james@velo.phast.umass.edu.

Assabet River Rail Trail 1999 Kickoff Meeting

Thursday, January 14, 7:00 p.m., Maynard Town Hall, Room 201

Please join ARRT supporters as we get 1999 off to a good start. Presentations will include:

Review of 1998 accomplishments

Town by town updates, key issues in each town

1999 grant applications

Volunteer opportunities

1999 calendar of event

Note: Assabet River Rail Trail towns are Marlborough, Hudson, Stow, Maynard, and Acton.

MassBike/Worcester Meeting

Wednesday, January 20, 7:00 pm in the Banx Room of the Worcester Public Library, Salem Street, Worcester.

Directions: Exit 13, Kelly Square off Route 290, follow Vernon Street (Route 122) down the hill 100 yds to Kelly Square and bear right on Green Street. Travel ~0.5 miles to traffic light, continue straight on Franklin St. to traffic light. Turn left on Salem Street and proceed to municipal parking lot.

The featured speaker will be Ann Johnson of the City of Worcester's Office of Planning and Community Development. She will speak about the status of Worcester's efforts towards cycling accomodations, future plans, and ways for MassBike to comment and offer guidance on cyclists' needs.

This is our first formal meeting with city officials and will set the stage for establishing a constructive relationship. Thus, we would like to have a good showing of cyclists to demonstrate our commitment to improved accomodations.

For further information, contact Greg Root at groot@ma.ultranet.com

Natick Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee

Monday, February 1, 7:00 to 8:00 Sharp, Natick Town Hall Selectmen's Meeting Room (Second Floor)

Route 135 & Park St. (Near 135 & 27 & Natick Commuter Rail Station)

Selectmen exclude FOOD and BEVERAGES from this facility.

Help us build support for the Proposed Cochituate Rail Trail. Submissions for Trails that you have enjoyed are being solicited. We will videotape this meeting for broadcast on the "Natick Channel" so we will honor the 1-hour format.

All participants are welcome

For further information, contact George Eckert, ggeckert@worldnet.att.net.

Framingham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee

Tuesday February 9 at 7:30 in Room 130 of the Memorial Building, 150 Concord Street, Framingham.

TIP 2000 Planning Forums

Tuesday, February 9 Hopkinton Town Hall, 18 Main Street

Wednesday, February 10 Newton Library, 330 Homer Street

Thursday, February 25 Weymouth Town Library, 46 Broad Street

Friday, February 26 Peabody City Hall, 24 Lowell Street

All meetings begin at 8:30 A.M. and will last approximately 2 hours

Purpose of the meetings:

A series of educational meetings to explain the steps a community should take in getting a transportation project from concept to completion. Information will include:

Pre-construction issues concerning planning, design, local funding, environmental concerns needed before a project can be placed on the TIP

Steps involved in programming a project into the Boston region's Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)

Taking a project from the TIP to construction and completion

An overview of state and federal transportation funding for the next several years, including state bond 6ills and TEA-21

Who should attend?

Local officials involved in the planning and design of community highway and transit projects

Representatives of planning councils, planning boards and environmental organizations

Interested citizens

For more information about the TIP forums or the TIP process, contact David Mohler, Boston MPO TIP Coordinator, at (617)973-7144 or visit the Boston MPO website at http://www.ctps.org/bostonmpo

Framingham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee

Tuesday March 9 at 7:30 in Room 130 of the Memorial Building, 150 Concord Street, Framingham.

Also Tuesday, April 13.

MassBike/Pioneer Valley Monthly Meeting

Wednesday, March 10, 7:00 PM, Room 304, Seelye Hall, Smith College, Northamp ton

Preliminary agenda:

Coolidge Bridge updates

Critical Mass

Parking garages

Amherst Give-Your-Car-A-Break Week (Kaynor?)

Bike/Ped Committees

Route 9 in Williamsburg (Boas?)

UMass (recent pedestrian injuries, cars vs. bikes...)

Valley Greens: Transportation forum

PVPC: bike/ped workshop

Refreshments will be served -- but this time we'll try pot luck! All are welcome.

Assabet River Rail Trail Volunteers' Meeting

Thursday, March 11, 7:00 p.m., at the Acton Town Library, room A.

Among the topics to be discussed:

Date and plans for Marlborough clean-up

Spring town meetings

Town-by-town updates

The library is on Main St (Rte 27). Turn west (L from the south, R from the north) onto Woodbury Lane, directly across from the war memorial. Turn right into the parking area behind Town Hall and keep going, taking turns and jogs as appropriate to get you into the parking lot behind the library. The room is on the lower (entrance) level, on the left just beyond the children's section.

Natick Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee

Monday, April 5, 7:00pm to 8:00pm, Natick Town Hall, 11 E. Central Street Near Route 135 & 27 as well as Natick Commuter Rail Station. Selectmen's Meeting Room (Second Floor)

To reserve presentation time or for more information, contact ggeckert@worldnet.att.net, or call (508)653-6913

MassBike/Pioneer Valley Meeting

Wednesday, April 14 at 7:00pm in Room 304, Seelye Hall, Smith College, Nort hampton

Preliminary agenda:

Amherst Give-Your-Car-A-Break Week: final planning -- come help!

Bridge updates

Critical Mass report

Bike/Ped Committees moving forward

MassBike Tour '99: July

National Bike Week -- adopt City Council resolutions?

Pioneer Valley Planning Commission: new Bike/Ped plan

Dues!

Starting tonight, we'll try potluck refreshments. Can't wait to see what people will bring!

For further information, contact James Lowenthal, james@velo.phast.umass.edu

Bedford Friends Of The Minuteman Bikeway Annual Meeting

Wednesday April 28, 7:30 PM, Bedford Town Hall, 2 Mudge Way, Bedford, MA General Purpose Meeting Room

Awards, Guest Speaker, Newsletter

Everyone Welcome. Refreshments will be served

Help us support your enjoyment of the Minuteman Bikeway!

For More information contact: George Eckert Secretary, Bedford Friends of the Minuteman ggeckert@worldnet.att.net

MassBike Board Meeting

Monday, May 10, 6:00 - 9:00 pm, Volpe Transporation Center on Broadway in Cambridge

Read our Open Meeting Policy.

Check out the tentative agenda.

MassBike Pioneer Valley Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, May 12, 7:00 pm, Room 304, Seelye Hall, Smith College, Northampt on

Framingham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee

Tuesday, May 11 at 7:30 in Room 130 of the Memorial Building, 150 Concord Street, Framingham.

For more information, email fbpac@ma.ultranet.com

North Shore Greenway Visioning Workshop

Thursday, May 13, 4:00 to 7:00 pm, Boxford Community Center, Elm St., Boxford

Help the Appalachian Mountain Club envision the future greenways north of Boston for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management by attending this workshop. This meeting is part of the development of a Statewide Greenways and Trails Plan.

RSVP to Colin Novick, cnovick@amcinfo.org or (617)523-0655 x385, by May 12.

MassBike Worcester Chapter Meeting

Monday, May 24, 7:00 pm, Banx Room, Worcester Public Library

Saxonville Branch Right-of-Way/Cochituate Rail Trail Public Meeting

Wednesday, June 9 at 7:30 in Room 130 of the Memorial Building, 150 Concord Street, Framingham.

Joint meeting of the Natick and Framingham bicycle committees.

For more information, check out Dick Miller's web site.

MassBike Advocacy/Education Committee Meeting

Wednesday, June 23, 1999 at 5:30 p.m. at the offices of Goldstein & Manello, P.C. on the 20th floor at 265 Franklin Street, Boston.

The purpose of the meeting is to further organize our advocacy initatives; to generate a complete list of our onging projects, and then assign responsibility for specific projects to specific committee members. Also, to establish an e-mail address list for all concerned and to start to develop guidelines for the undertaking of new projects or initiatives in the name of MassBike.

All cyclists interested in advocating for safer roads, more trails and other measures to make bikes belong are welcome.

MassBike North Shore Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, June 30, 7:00 pm, Smith Hall, at the Essex Agricultural and Technical Institute (Essex Aggie) 562 Maple Street, Route 62, Danvers (just west of US 1 and I-95).

MassBike Worcester Chapter Meeting

Monday, July 12, 7:00 pm, Poppy's Ice Cream on Mill Street, Worcester (just north of O'Coins department store)

MassBike Pioneer Valley Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, August 11, 7:00 pm, Room 304, Seelye Hall, Smith College, Northampton

MassBike/Pioneer Valley Meeting

Wednesday, September 8, 7:00 PM, Seelye Hall Room 304, Smith College, Northa mpton.

Potluck refreshments -- you bring 'em, you eat 'em

Tentative agenda:

Catherine Ratte of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission will visit us to introduce herself and present a suggestion for making a PV-wide grassroots network of Rail Trail supporters, to advocate for funding for all the planned, and oftentimes even approved, trails that still haven't been built (or even designed in most cases...) (See note below on the UMass Rail Trail Connector status. Catherine's last position was as Bicycle Safety Coordinator for the State of Wisconsin; since her arrival at PVPC she has already secured a major Transportation Demand Management grant to support next May's Bike Week 2000 in the Valley.

UMass Rail Trail Connector: in jeopardy. Come pick up material and info to help prevent a funding fiasco.

Framingham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee

Tuesday September 14 at 7:30 PM in Room 130 of the Memorial Building, 150 Concord Street, Framingham.

MassBike/Pioneer Valley Meeting

Wednesday, October 13, 7:00 PM, Seelye Hall Room 304, Smith College, Northam pton.

Potluck refreshments -- you bring 'em, you eat 'em

Assabet River Rail Trail Monthly meeting

Thursday, October 14, 7 pm, Maynard Town Hall, Main Street, Maynard, MA 01754 (978-897-1000)

For further information, e-mail railtrail@gis.net

MassBike Board Meeting

Monday, October 18, 6:00 - 9:00 pm, MassBike office, 44 Bromfield Street, Boston. MassBike members welcome! Mail crisley@massed.net if you are coming.

Read our Open Meeting Policy.

Access Boston 2000-2020

Tuesday, November 9, 6-8 pm, Boston Public Library, Mezzanine Conference Roo m, Johnson Building

This group provides the opportunity for community leaders, businesses, and residents to formulate a comprehensive transportation policy for Boston. Your voice is critical to the sucess of this effort. All pedestrian, bicycle and public transit activists should attend this meeting on "Serving the Neighborhoods."

Framingham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee

Tuesday November 9 at 7:30 PM in Room 130 of the Memorial Building, 150 Concord Street, Framingham.

For further information, e-mail fbpac@ma.ultranet.com.