Ride Boldly!

Bikes, bicycling, and road safety.

October 8, 2010
by julie
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Ongoing Saga on Jefferson Avenue

Bikeway Arrow Dramaz I’ve written before about the saga of making St. Paul’s Jefferson Avenue an official bike boulevard. As I’ve noted, it was on a 1998 Twin Cities bike map as a good bicycle option. There’s been a lot … Continue reading

August 24, 2010
by julie
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St. Paul Flashback: 1998 Bicycle Routes Map

Yesterday, I posted the Chain Gang 1998 map of Minneapolis bicycle routes. The other side of this fold-up map features the equivalent for the Saint Paul side of the river. My scan accidentally cut off a wee bit of the … Continue reading

August 23, 2010
by julie
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St. Paul Finally Fixes Mississippi River Trail

I was along Shepard Road in Saint Paul this weekend, and saw a beautiful sight: The section of trail between the Highway 5 bridge and the I35E bridge is being regraded, widened, repaved, and generally upgraded from ‘OMG suck’ to … Continue reading

July 24, 2010
by julie
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Saint Paul Bicycle Coalition Forming

In the ongoing movement for municipalities and cities to have their own advocacy groups to extend and support the work of state-wide organizations like the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota, a new bicycle coalition is forming in St. Paul. Locally-oriented groups … Continue reading