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On the morning of November 29, 2023, a motor vehicle driver struck a pedestrian in the location of 333 North Main Street, near Bishops Corner intersection of West Hartford. Journalist Michael Walsh reported on social media that the pedestrian had non-life threatening injuries, and that the West Hartford Police Department did not plan to release

Reporter Michael Walsh has written several important news stories on road safety, and also compiled this interactive map of West Hartford driver crashes with pedestrians and cyclists for 2023 to date. Click on red markers on the map to read about each crash, based on his reporting and police data submitted to the CT Crash

We thank the Town of West Hartford Engineering Department for adding buffered bike lanes to a 0.4-mile portion of South Quaker Lane (between Flatbush and Talcott), as part of its regular milling and repaving scheduling, in compliance with the Town’s Complete Streets policy. We also thank the West Hartford Pedestrian-Bicycle Commission (PBC) for recommending improvements

Rachel Martin, a West Hartford parent of young children, writes in her Nov 14th letter in We-Ha.com, “We Need to Make Our Roads Safe for Kids and Families.” …If we really want to make West Hartford a great place for families we need – desperately – to rethink the ways we design our roads and

Jim Head writes:“I saw this election cycle Town Council candidates (yes, more than one) mentioning they specifically support bike lanes. This is great to see!I wanted to take a moment to talk about what it means to me and others who ride…”Read https://we-ha.com/letter-in-support-of-bike-lanes

On Wednesday, October 25th in Hartford there was a positive and productive Complete Streets conversation with AARP Connecticut, the Connecticut Department of Transportation, Smart Growth America, Transport Hartford, legislators, and community leaders. If you missed this panel, you can watch the CT-N video here. The three speakers were: The panelists consisted of the above speakers

Bike West Hartford welcomes three new Ambassadors through our partnership with Cycling Without Age and Aviva Senior Living West Hartford. Thomasina Clemons (Aviva resident), Maureen Browne-Springer (Aviva activities director), and Kevin Sullivan (Cycling Without Age West Hartford chapter lead) worked together to relaunch and promote this program, where volunteer pilots offer free rides on an

The West Hartford chapter of Cycling Without Age, sponsored primarily by Bike West Hartford, Inc., is now partnering with AVIVA Senior Living at Hamilton Heights, West Hartford. Volunteer pilots offer free rides on our trishaw (a three-wheel electric-assist rickshaw or pedicab) to help people with limited mobility “feel the wind in their hair.” AVIVA staff

View this YouTube video of our New Haven bike tour with Adam Weber Bike West Hartford co-hosted a bike tour on August 9th 2023, led by Adam Weber, a civil engineer and project manager with the City of New Haven, who focused on traffic-calming and cycling infrastructure. He also posts videos on his EverydayEngineering TikTok

Bike West Hartford held our first New Britain Avenue Walk Audit on Friday June 30th 2023, co-sponsored with State. Rep. Kate Farrar (be sure to check out her awesome short video on Facebook or Instagram). Twenty people joined our event and shared observations and ideas for improving safety and services for walkers, bike riders, and