Jason Wang, our newest Bike West Hartford board member, explains why we need safe bike lanes on the newly-paved section of Boulevard, and calls on Town of West Hartford leaders to keep their promise to add them to fulfill our Vision Zero and Complete Streets policy.
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Read Jason Wang’s May 12th op-ed in We-Ha.com, “Re-Imagining Our Town Center Begins With Re-Imagining Parking,” where he watched parking spaces in front of several stores in West Hartford Center on a Saturday afternoon and found:” – During those 2 hours, 0 people parked in any of the 7 storefront spaces and walked in. Again,
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Watch Jeremy Chen’s NBC TV 30 May 10th news report on our Bike+Walk+Bus to Shop in West Hartford campaign to improve people-centered road design, including interviews with Rick Thibodeau, Sandy Fry, and Jennifer Boyd.
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Thank you to Bike West Hartford supporters for making our voices heard for a people-oriented redesign of West Hartford Center. In April, all of us were very disappointed to hear town administrators present their “semi-final” plan, which “rolled back previous proposals… to reduce parking spaces and expand sidewalk space significantly while also providing a buffered
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Bike West Hartford proudly announces our newest board member, Richelle Efland. As the parent of a four-year-old who enthusiastically pedaled along with our recent group ride, she wants West Hartford to become a safer community for all children to walk, bike, and ride the bus. Richelle is drawing on her experience as an educator to
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Good news! Bike West Hartford will receive a $5,000 Active Transportation Microgrant funded by the CT Department of Transportation, and managed by the Capital Region Council of Governments, to launch our bike safety education workshop and distribute 300 free helmets to local youth in spring 2024. Our first workshop will be held at Charter Oak
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A big thank you for the outpouring of public support for a people-first vision for West Hartford Center and the Option A redesign. If you haven’t already done so, email TownCouncil@westhartfordct.gov (with cc: to BikeWestHartfordInc@gmail.com) to speak up and share your views. You can also tell local businesses that you’ll support them through construction. Tell
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We need your help to make sure West Hartford doesn’t roll back promises of safety and undo years of summer fun in the Center. Are 32 street parking spaces worth risking the lives of pedestrians and cyclists? Are those 0.6% of total Center parking spots worth losing the vibrant “gardens of eating” that have made
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See also March 15th article about Tri-Point Greenway by Michael Walsh in CT Insider (gift link) Bike West Hartford is thrilled that the Town of West Hartford has submitted a $125,000 planning grant application to CT DEEP for a comprehensive study into the exciting Tri-Point Greenway concept. If funded, this planning grant will bring us
Tri-Point Greenway: An Important Step Closer! Read More »
Adam Weber, host of Everyday Engineering on YouTube and TikTok and an engineer with the City of New Haven, shared this 8-minute video of a recent field trip to see road safety infrastructure in Hoboken, New Jersey. He emphasizes how Hoboken embraced its #VisionZero safety with a systematic approach involving lots of cost-effective steps to
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