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Register online to join our bike ride to celebrate Earth Day and BiCiCo West’s 1st Birthday, Saturday April 22nd, 2023. Arrive by 8:30am at 616 New Park Ave, West Hartford (across from the southern tip of the Trout Brook multi-use trail), meet new friends, sing a birthday song, enjoy a snack, and roll out at […]

View and print the two-page PDF version Data-Driven Approach Needed to Prioritize Areas for Safer Road Design Board members of Bike West Hartford call on the West Hartford Vision Zero Task Force to explore the data: Where did motor vehicle crashes with injuries happen in West Hartford from 2018-2022? Our analysis of CT Crash Repository […]

Bike West Hartford calls on the West Hartford Vision Zero Task Force to use crash data to prioritize actionable steps. Explore our interactive West Hartford Crash Map, based on police reports to the UConn Crash Data Repository, to identify areas with the highest number of motor vehicle crashes causing injuries or deaths. Learn how it works […]

From Brussels to Tokyo, these women prove the opposite UPDATED: We have a FULL HOUSE for our Sat April 15th showing, so we have paused registration. You can still show up, but we cannot guarantee seating. Saturday April 15th 2023, 7pm at BiCiCo West, 616 New Park Avenue, West Hartford A new documentary film by […]

Get involved in the Capitol Region Council of Governments (CRCOG) East Coast Greenway Study: “CRCOG has initiated a study to identify the preferred alignment of the East Coast Greenway through the last remaining 12-mile gap in the Capitol Region in Simsbury, Bloomfield, Hartford, and East Hartford. The East Coast Greenway is an off-road walking and biking route stretching 3,000 miles from Maine to Florida.” The Study Area: […]

View a 2-page PDF version of this flyer West Hartford will benefit from studying the experience of Hoboken, New Jersey, which has a population of about 60,000 people, similar in size to our community. In 2019, Mayor Rhavi Bhalla and stakeholders launched Hoboken’s Vision Zero Task Force to eliminate fatal and serious injuries on roadways […]

View this open letter as a two-page PDF document To: Town Engineer, Pedestrian & Bicycle Commission, and Vision Zero Task Force, Town of West Hartford From: Bike West Hartford Board Members: Jack Dougherty, Ethan Frankel, Tracy Frankel, Jim Head The Town Engineer recently described a proposal to resurface a portion of Boulevard (about 0.7 miles […]

Read Michael Walsh’s March 1st article in CT Insider to learn more about the Town of West Hartford’s proposed May 2023 resurfacing of a 0.7-mile section of Boulevard, between Mountain Road and Riggs Avenue, which currently has 12-foot car lanes and parking on both sides. Walsh writes: The plan “would eliminate the parking lane on […]

The West Hartford Vision Zero Task Force announced its first meeting will be held on Monday, Feb 13th 2023 at 5pm in Town Hall Room 400. See agenda and packet on the Town of West Hartford meetings page. Below is a letter sent to Task Force members by the Bike West Hartford board: February 11, […]

Register online to reserve a seat for this free screening and discussion of “The Street Project” on Saturday Feb 11th from 7 – 8:30pm at BiCiCo West, 616 New Park Avenue, West Hartford. “The Street Project” is an inspiring documentary about the global fight to make streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists, by local Emmy-winning […]

Thomas Broderick’s Feb 3rd op-ed for We-Ha.com connects the “Morley Moms” of the early 1970s with current demands that West Hartford town leaders improve safety for pedestrians. He recounts how these mothers organized their neighborhood and “planned to blockade Trout Brook Drive if the Town of West Hartford didn’t make it safer for their children […]

Attend a Thursday Feb 2nd 2023 public presentation and open house of the West Hartford Center Infrastructure Plan, from 6-8pm at Town Hall Auditorium, 50 South Main St. The project team from Stantec planning consultants will offer “preliminary concept designs that have been prepared for key roadways like LaSalle and Farmington. These and a series […]