The Huntington News introduces us to Dylan Mitchell, who endlessly bikes around Northeastern's Centennial Common, next to the Ruggles T stop, doing stunts to the sounds of disco and funk blaring out from his bike-mounted speaker.
Although he suspects passersby assume his hobby is performative and that people view him as “that crazy guy with the bike,” he said he has no intention of being seen.
A bicyclist suffered critical injuries in a crash at Albany and East Berkeley streets in the South End shortly after 11:10 a.m. Read more.
The Huntington News reports on a community meeting in South Boston last week about plans to add more BlueBike stations, which some residents boisterously declared would hurt families, young children, senior citizens and people in wheelchairs. A possible site next to the neighborhood Vietnam Veterans Memorial was decried as "sacrilege."
A woman in her 20s was taken to a local hospital after she was struck by a driver of a Ford F-250 at Western Avenue and Academic Way around 11:30 a.m. Read more.
Cambridge Day reports work that includes widening the pedestrian/bicycle path and reducing the speed limit on Memorial Drive outbound from the BU Bridge starts Monday.
Streetsblog Mass reports the driver who hit and killed John Corcoran on a pedestrian/bicyclist path next to Memorial Drive has had his license suspended during an investigation but has yet to be charged with anything: Read more.
Streetsblog Mass reports on the fatal crash near the BU Boathouse and BU Bridge, along a stretch of Memorial Drive that safety activists had urged DCR to do something about, but it didn't.
The city today formally opened a "bike town" at Moakley Park in South Boston aimed at giving kids a way to safely learn how to ride a bike in an urban setting. Read more.
First up, we have the Globe's Brian McGrory, who argues Boylston Street bike lanes are a major mistake, that even pedestrians love the sheer exuberance of a traffic-clogged thoroughfare full of life and the essence of Boston, and man, who doesn't love just driving down the boulevard looking up at all the tall buildings and it's where the Marathon bombings were and besides, there are bike lanes on parallel streets, leave Boylston Street alone! Read more.
Mayor Wu announced today the city will offer vouchers, ranging in value from $800 to $2,400, to help lower-income residents, seniors and people with disabilities afford a battery-powered bicycle. Read more.
Momentum introduces us to CargoB, a sort of Bluebikes-like bike-share service, only for people who have stuff to move around as they glide and pedal on their e-cargo bikes. Currently available in Jamaica Plain, Porter Square and Winter Hill.
Tony Ursillo was among the (fully clothed) people watching naked, half-naked and faux naked people riding down Northern Avenue on bikes, skateboard and, yes, at least one penny farthing last night as part of the annual World Naked Bike Ride Boston, which started at Stony Brook in Jamaica Plain.
Cambridge Police report a woman bicycling on Hampshire Street died this morning after the driver of a box truck heading in the same direction turned right onto Portland Street, killing her. Read more.
Update: Bicyclist died.
Cambridge police, firefighters and EMTs responded to Hampshire and Portland streets around 8:25 a.m. for a bicyclists on the ground following a crash with a truck. The bicyclist was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, after police, who arrived first on the scene, administered CPR.
A Florida woman on a bicycle turning from Mt. Auburn Street onto DeWolfe Street in Harvard Square around 4:30 p.m. died when hit by a box truck whose driver was going in the same direction but then decided to make a turn, Cambridge Police and the Middlesex County District Attorney's office say. Read more.
A woman bicycling through Charles Circle at Cambridge and Charles streets was hit by the driver of a dump truck who kept going - until he was flagged down by state troopers around 8:30 a.m. yesterday. Read more.
The daughter of man dragged and then crushed by a dump truck at Massachusetts and Huntington avenues in 2022 today filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against both the driver and the New Hampshire company that owned the truck. Read more.
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