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Join our neighbors for the Octagon Cycling Club’s 2nd Annual Tour of Bloomfield, Sunday August 28th. Register for the ride at https://www.bikereg.com/BloomfieldTour Learn more about the Octagon Cycling Club at https://www.octagoncyclingclubct.com Check out their awesome ride videos and photos at https://www.facebook.com/OctagonCycling

While Tony Cherolis is taking a long-distance biking break from Hartford, he found time to write this August 19th CT News Junkie op-ed that illustrates how several communities are taking a do-it-yourself tactical urbanism approach to improving transportation safety and quality of life in their neighborhoods. When your state or local government is not getting

Bike West Hartford welcomes this opportunity to advocate for our August 2022 recommendations, which are consistent with the July 25th WHPBC letter to the Town Engineering Division. We ask supporters to help us identify good examples of separate and fully protected 2-way multi-use paths that would be appropriate for this site, similar to those featured

We’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of the international Cycling Without Age non-profit organization, which began in Copenhagen, Denmark and now has over 2,700 chapters in 52 countries. The CWA West Hartford chapter is one of the first three in the United States — and the first in the Northeastern US — and was launched in

Bike West Hartford is proud to co-sponsor another Hartford Bike Party! Join us on Saturday Aug 27th at 6:30pm at the Bushnell Park Carousel, and we roll out at 7pm. Wear your helmet and bring lights and water! See more details at on the Facebook Event Page. Thanks to organizers Rob Peters and Emily Oshinskie!

Bike West Hartford encourages readers who support our recommendations to express your views in an email to any Town officials listed below, with a link to this post, and to cc: BikeWestHartfordInc@gmail.com To: WH Town Engineer Greg Sommer (Greg.Sommer@WestHartfordCT.gov), WH Assistant Engineer James Brennan (james.brennan@westhartfordct.gov), New Park Avenue Complete Streets Project (newparkavenue@westhartfordct.gov), WH Town Manager

Transport Hartford and sponsors hosted two walk audits in July 2022 around the Elmwood Fastrak station — New Park Avenue — New Britain Avenue area of West Hartford and Hartford. Tucker Salls, the walk audit organizer, will present findings and recommendations at the Monday September 12th 7pm meeting of the West Hartford Pedestrian and Bicycle

Professor Mary Donegan, a board member of Bike West Hartford, was quoted in this August 1st Hartford Business Journal story about Complete Streets development projects: Mary Donegan, a professor in urban and community studies at the University of Connecticut, said the complete streets concept has been around for awhile, but need and vision for it

Transport Hartford at the Center for Latino Progress announces the 5th Annual Northeast Multimodal Transit Summit online on Monday Nov 21st, 2022 from 11:30am to 7:30pm. Learn more and register. A day of discussion on making our modes of transportation environmentally sustainable, equitable, and accessible. The Transport Hartford Academy program at the Center for Latino Progress will host the

Jack Dougherty: Kerri Provost tweeted on August 1st about the newly-released UConn Crash Data Repository diagram report on the car driver who killed pedestrian Bob Oneal in West Hartford Center on June 2, 2022. Kerri writes: This diagram shows how Bob Oneal was killed in West Hartford Center in June 2022 as he stood on