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2003 Past Massachusetts Bicycle Meetings

Natick Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee
Monday, January 6, 7:00 - 9:00 pm, in the Natick Police Dept.'s Conference Room
Agenda
For further information, Contact Dick Miller, chair at TheMillers@millermicro.com

Friends of the Community Path
Monday, January 13, 7:00 - 9:00 pm, 112 Belmont Street (off Highland just after Somerville Hospital) Somerville, MA

Framingham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee
Tuesday January 14 7:30 pm, Lower Nevins Conference Room
Agenda

Assabet River Rail Trail
Wednesday, January 15, 7:00 pm, Hudson Town Hall in the 2nd floor auditorium
"Anticipating award of the Marlborough-Hudson construction contract this spring we will be trying out a new computer slide show. The subject is design features of the trail, and it is based on the actual construction plans."

Boston Bicycle Advisory Committee
Wednesday, January 22, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, City Hall Room 721
We'll discuss the 2002 Annual Report and plan Bike Week events.

Mass. Legislature Rails to Trails, Bicycles, and Pedestrian Caucus
Tuesday, January 28th, 1:30 pm, State House Room 350
Co-Chairs Senator Pamela Resor and Representative Anne Paulsen invite you to the next exciting meeting, where the guest speakers will be Boston MPO Chairman Dennis DiZoglio and MBTA Bicycle Coordinator Steven Woelful.
A representative from the Transportation Realty Associates, which provides leasing arrangements for rails trails, is also tentatively scheduled to speak.
Please contact the office of Representative Paulsen (617) 722-2140 or Senator Resor (617) 722-1120 if you need further information.

Massbike Events/Communications/Outreach Committee
Tuesday, January 28, 5:30 to 7:30, Classroom A.
We'll be planning and looking for volunteers to help make the following events happen in 2003: Please contact Robin Schulman if you'd like to attend so we can plan larger space if needed, or if you want to be kept posted on volunteer opps. We need volunteers to help make all of the above happen, and will need as many fun and creative ideas as possible for the statewide event planning for 2003.

Somerville Bicycle Committee
Tuesday, January 28, 6:30 PM, City Hall, 93 Highland Ave., 3rd. Floor Conf. Room.
Meetings are open to the public, and we welcome inquiries.
Included on the agenda will be updates on mapping the city, bike racks, the MassHighway Linear Path improvement (Davis Sq. crossing), IKEA at Assembly Square, pedestrian ad hoc committee, and discussion on our Bicycle Guidelines for the city.
For further information, drop an email to sbc@ci.somerville.ma.us.

Arlington Bicycle Advisory Committee (ABAC)
Monday, February 3, 7:30-9:30pm. Arlington Town Hall, Annex Building, 1st floor conference room. (Enter from Academy Street side - toward rear of building.)
Agenda
Featured Discussion Topics
Updates
Upcoming Events
New and occasional participants are always welcome to attend.

Natick Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee
Monday, February 3, 7:00-9:00 pm in the Natick Police Dept. Conference Room
Agenda
For further information, contact Dick Miller, Chairman.

Action Group of Friends of the Community Path
Monday, Febuary 10, 7:00-8:30 p m12 Belmont Street #2, Somerville, MA (Between Summer St and Highland Ave two Blocks east of Somerville Hospital)
Agenda:
Please RSVP if you can to Joel Bennett (617)776-7769, http://www.pathfriends.org.

dt>Boston Bicycle Advisopry Committee Meeting

Wednesday, February 26, 5:30-6:30 pm at the Milky Way 403-405 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain,
Agenda
  1. Introductions and Updates
  2. Bikes Belong Grant application for education program.
  3. Jamaica Plain streetcar
  4. Other business and announcements
Anyone interested is welcome to stay afterwards for bowling and pizza.

Assabet River Rail Trail Meeting
Wednesday, February 26, 7:00 pm, Walker Building in Marlborough.
We meet in the auditorium on the top floor. The Walker Bldg is on the opposite side of Main St from City Hall, and one block west toward Rt 495. It is a former high school, spotlighted at night, occupying a whole block, with on street parking all around the building. Use the entrances at either end of the building. See www.arrtinc.org for complete directions.
We will begin with a slideshow of the trail in Marlborough and Hudson and a handout of some design features. The construction contract for this section is to be awarded in early March. The business meeting follows the slideshow. Light refreshments.

Arlington Bicycle Advisory Committee
Monday, March 3, 7:30-9:30pm, Arlington Town Hall, Annex Building, 1st floor conference room. (Enter from Academy Street side - toward rear of building.)
New and occasional participants are always welcome to attend.
Agenda
  • Introductions.
  • Accept minutes from prior meeting.
  • Featured Discussion Topics:
    • Planning discussion for the "Revolutionary Ride" mobile workshop tour of the Minuteman Bikeway, for the Rails-to-Trails/TrailLink National Conference (June 28). Conference website is at http://www.railtrails.org/traillink2003/.
    • Status/discussion on warrant article on bicycle parking for Arlington Town Meeting.
    • Discussion on developing grant proposals for bicycling-related projects in town.
  • Updates:
    • Roadway transportation.
    • Minuteman Bikeway maintenance.
    • Status on working with Arlington Schools on safe routes and bicycle education programs.
  • Upcoming Events:
    • National Bicycle Summit, Washington DC - March 5-7, https://league2.securesites.com/events/summitinfo0303.htm. Jack Johnson of ABAC will be among the "Massachusetts delegation" traveling to Capitol Hill next week.
    • BIKE-Arlington Tour - Sunday, May 18.
    • Rails-to-Trails/TrailLink Tour of Minuteman Bikeway - June 28, http://www.railtrails.org/traillink2003/

    Framingham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee
    Tuesday March 11, 2003 at 7:30 PM, Lower Nevins Conference Room 1
    Agenda
    7:30 pm
    • Review meeting minutes, correspondence, and recent newspaper reports.
    • Report on the February 28 meeting of Downtown Solutions at which FBPAC was represented.
    • MASSBike is sponsoring a program to help public service groups to provide bicycle lights at below market cost. How could a distribution program be established in Framingham to take advantage of this opportunity?
    8:00 pm
    • Review the impact of the Danforth Farms development on pedestrians in the Saxonville village area. George Dixon, a Saxonville resident and Town Meeting member, will explain his concerns.
    8:45 pm
    • Public comment

    Assabet River Rail Trail monthly meeting
    Tuesday, March 25, 7:00 pm at the Stow Library.
    Town updates and Spring activities.

    New England Greenway Symposium
    Saturday, April 12, 2003, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
    This year's Symposium will have an expanded focus on New England and Beyond: Making Connections Across the Northeast. We will be inviting speakers from all of the New England States, as well as nearby states in the Northeast, such as New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, as well as the province of Quebec. Our goal this year is to increase the dialogue on the boundaries of New England and to learn of the innovative greenway planning, design, and management within the greater region.
    For more information, go to the New England Greenway Consortium web site.

    Bedford Friends of the Minuteman Bikeway Annual Meeting
    Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 pm, Bedford Town Center, 12 Mudge Way*, Bedford, MA
    Beyond Depot Park - Extension of the Minuteman Bikeway to Concord and Billerica
    "Where does the Bikeway go from here?" cyclists who've reached Depot Park, a focal point where the Minuteman ends and unimproved trails branch west and north toward Concord and Billerica on a pair of abandoned railroad beds, frequently ask. Good question! To catalyze discussion of the answer, the Friends have prevailed upon Craig Della Penna, called by The Ride Magazine "the most effective advocate for bicycling and rail-to-trail issues in the eastern United States," to give a talk describing conversion efforts underway in Eastern Massachusetts and the social, political, and funding issues they face. Following Craig's presentation, representatives from Minuteman towns and towns planning Bikeway connections will, using his extensive knowledge and experience as a resource, debate the trail network's future.

    About the "Minuteman Extension" and the "Narrow Gage Rail Trail"
    The abandoned "Reformatory Line" to Concord, a segment of the Bay Circuit Trail now referred to as the "Minuteman Extension," is currently a hard-packed dirt trail greatly favored by walkers and off-road cyclists. To better serve these users, the Bedford Rotary is constructing an automobile parking area at the west end of the path at Route 62. Given the several housing developments planned or in progress along the Extension and its potential as a conduit from them and west Bedford to the Town Center, cycling advocates sees this as an opportune moment seek upgrading of the path to a paved surface.
    Going north from Depot Park, the Narrow Gage Rail Trail (tracing the route of the nation's first two-foot gage railbed) is currently surfaced with stonedust to the Billerica line. Plans are to link it to the proposed Yankee Doodle Bikeway that town is designing.

    * The Town Center is located in Bedford's municipal complex on Mudge Way, just off Route 225 (The Great Road). To get there, ask an on-line mapping service (MapQuest . www.mapquest.com, is one) for directions to the Great Road/Mudge Way intersection, or find the intersection on a suburban street atlas and plot the best route yourself. Once on Mudge Way, take the first left, past the police station, to an expansive parking area on the right. Park and walk toward the Town Center, a yellow-painted, wooden, former school building with brick wings on both sides just to the south of the Town Hall, an impressive brick structure with a cupola on top. At the Center, look for signs directing you to the meeting, held in a large ex-classroom upstairs and to the right.

    Friends of the Community Path
    Monday, April 14, 7:00 pm, 12 Belmont St., Apt #2 (between Summer St. and Highland Ave., a couple of blocks from the Somerville Hospital)

    Assabet River Rail Trail Monthly meeting
    Wednesday, May 21, 7:00 pm at the Acton Library.
    This is the last meeting before the annual election of officers and directors on June 19. Town updates will be covered, and your inputs on ARRT are invited.

    Framingham Rail Trail Public Forum
    Monday June 23, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Memorial Building - Public Hearing Room, 150 Concord Street, Framingham
    If you live in Framingham or Sudbury, you are strongly urged to attend this critical meeting regading the proposed Framingham to Sudbury Rail Trail.
    In 2002, Framingham created a town committee to explore the possibility of converting an unused CSX rail line in Framingham and Sudbury into a rail trail. This trail would connect to the proposed Bruce Freeman Trail, and to the proposed Mass Central Rail Trail.
    Last fall the Framingham Rail Trail Task Force hosted 3 abutter meetings. The idea was to introduce them to the concept and listen to their concerns. Angry abutters turned up in force.
    This meeting will be the first and probably the only meeting which is targeted at the general public. The idea is to get input from the public, but primarily from Framingham and Sudbury residents.

    TrailLink 2003: Designing for the Future
    June 26 - 29, Providence, Rhode Island
    Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's International Trails and Greenways Conference

    Framingham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee
    Tuesday July 8, 7:30 pm, Lower Nevins Conference Room 1
    Agenda:
  • 7:30: Review meeting minutes and various correspondence.
  • 7:45: Framingham resident Bill Williamson recently attended Trail Link 2003: Designing for the Future, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's International Trails and Greenways Conference in Providence. He will present a synopsis of the sessions he attended and give his impressions on the status of the rails to trails movement. For background on the conference please visit http://www.railtrails.org/traillink2003
  • 8:15: Public comment.
  • 8:30: Work session to compile the results of the street surveys for pedestrian, bicycle, and wheelchair accommodation.

    Friends of the Community Path Monthly Meeting
    Monday, September 8, 7:00-8:30 pm, 112 Belmont Street, #2, Somerville (Between Summer St. and Highland Ave. One block east of Lowell St.)
    Agenda:
    1. ) Update on Volmer & Assoc. design contract(Should be starting any day)
    2. ) Update on EPA study into rail contamination
    3. ) Update on Active Living by Design Grant
    4. ) Update on Artbeat/Bike Canoe fundraiser(This was so much fun)
    5. ) Organizing for proposed Davis Square study
    6. ) East Somerville outreach
    7. ) S_T_E_P and the green line extension
    Please RSVP if you think you can make it.
    For more info, email friendspath@yahoo.com or call Joel Bennett at 617-776-7769.

    Framingham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee
    Tuesday, September 9 at 7:30 pm, Lower Nevins Conference Room 1
    Agenda
    • 7:30 pm: Review meeting minutes, various correspondence, and status of the FBPAC Web site.
    • 7:45 pm: Discuss the Disability Commission's preliminary proposal for construction of a significant number of sidewalk curb cuts for wheelchair access across intersections.
    • 8:15 pm: Review the bicycle and pedestrian accommodation survey and cover letter prior to submission to DPW. We can add any pertinent updates due to recent repairs.
    • 8:30 pm: Public comment.
    For further info, email FBPAC@rcn.com.

    Assabet River Rail Trail Monthly Meeting
    Wednesday, Sept 24, 7:00 pm at the Stow Library.
    Construction of the Marlborough-Hudson section of the ARRT is expected to start Sept 29 in Marlborough. See our web site, www.ARRTinc.org to stay current on progress.

    Moving Together
    October 22, 2003, 7:30-3:45 pm, Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Worcester.
    Massachusetts annual statewide bicycle and pedestrian conference, will be held on October 22, 2003, in Worcester. The conference is sponsored by the Executive Office of Transportation and Construction, MassHighway, the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, Massachusetts Division of State Parks and Recreation, the Executive Office of Public Safety, the Governor's Highway Safety Bureau, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Moving Together is geared to a variety of interested people who have a commitment to better bicycling and walking conditions. Bicyclists and pedestrians, planning and highway officials, law enforcement officers and traffic safety advocates, wellness and injury prevention professionals, emergency medical staff, educators, school administrators and nurses, and community-based organization representatives are among those expected to attend this event. Workshops will cover many aspects of bicycling and walking, including designing communities, trails and roadways, promoting health and safety initiatives, and working with the media and municipal agencies.
    To be placed on the conference mailing list, please contact the Roads Program at (413) 545-2604, or by e-mail at: baystate_roads@hotmail.com.
    An Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file of the announcement is here.
    Online registration is here on the Baystate Roads Program website.
    Check the Baystate Roads Program website for the most uptodate information.

    • Last updated December 10, 2003 by Doug Mink

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