Columbia Greenway Rail Trail

Slow but sure. The Columbia Greenway Rail Trail.

See the latest plans for this rail to trail conversion through Westfield, MA

Safety for Bicyclists

This is a great idea for those bikers how need to share the road with cars.  Form my experience, most car drivers are good about sharing the road, but there are some a@#%^*#s that don't.

Friends, give bikes a wide berth as you slowly pass.

Cyclists, go single file on busy roads.

thanks.

Massachusetts Bicycle Plan

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is announcing that the Draft Statewide Bicycle Transportation Plan is now available for public comment. You can review the plan and provide feedback by clicking the link below.

2018 Statewide Bicycle Transportation Plan

Respond soon, comment period ends 31 January 2019

Be a Transportation Planner!

Design your own streetscape for pedestrian and biking.  Forget adding lanes to deal with your traffic jams, add a bike lane.  You too can be a transportation planner using this cool site 
Thanks to a colleague who shared this neat website.

Western Avenue Improvements include a safe bike lane

Tonight.

Western Avenue Redesign - Information Meeting by the City of Westfield and MassDOT

7PM Tuesday January 26

South Middle School

30 West Silver Street

Westfield, MA

for details see the City webpage:

http://www.cityofwestfield.org/index.aspx?NID=406

Our Stanley Park

The public is invited to a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony with Mayor Dan Knapik for the Anderson Bridge in the Frank Stanley Beveridge Wildlife Sanctuary on Saturday, September 26 at 10:00AM. All are invited for an optional post-dedication Walk, Run, or Bike ride in honor of Doug Anderson. Since 2013, Stanley Park has been raising funds to replace Wildlife Sanctuary trail bridges damaged and washed away in recent storms by hosting the annual Run Stanley 5K, seeking sponsorship, and obtaining grants. Thanks to a generous donation by the Anderson family and public support of the fundraising effort, a first removable floating dock bridge has been installed at the site of the former damaged bridge. This is now accessible from the boardwalk area. An additional bridge farther along the River Trail loop is needed to cross a marshy site where a second bridge was washed away. Raising the remaining funds needed for the second bridge is the goal of the third annual Run Stanley 5k trail run/walk, dog run, and Munchkin Run, to be held on Sunday, October 4 at Stanley Park. Register by September 15 to guarantee a race t-shirt at www.runstanley.com

Biking in Westfield

MassBike has published a report on the "Bikeability" of Westfield Massachusetts and can be found at this link.  Several recommendations are made to make the city a better place for bicycles.  Let's hope the recommendations come true!

Biking

A very popular sport and activity is biking.  Locally you risk your life biking in Westfield, so hopefully these videos will help educate people about biking safety.

See this link.