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Boston Bikes
Boston Bikes is part of Mayor Menino's vision for a vibrant and healthy city that benefits all its citizens. It seeks to make Boston a world-class bicycling city by creating safe and inviting conditions for all residents and visitors.

Bike Boston focuses on improvements in all five universal bike planning areas: Engineering, Enforcement, Education, Encouragement, and Evaluation.


 
     
  Mayor Announces New Benefits for Bikers  
     
Mayor Announces New Benefits for Bikers
Less than a year ago, Mayor Menino stood alongside the City's new Bike Coordinator Nicole Freedman in front of members of the biking community and explained how Boston would soon become a better biking city. This week, he proudly announced new bike lanes and racks across the city, per resident recommendations. He also announced that the City has released a request for information for bike sharing, where one can rent a bike and tour the city using multiple pick up and drop off locations.
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  Bike Rack  
     
Bike Rack Map Now Available
Trying to find a bike rack in Boston? Have a suggestion for where a rack should be installed?
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  Green Awards  
     
Now Accepting Nominations for the Bike Friendly Business Awards
Our Bike Friendly Business awards will recognize your company for taking steps to be more bike friendly.
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  Boston Bikes Newsletter  
     
Boston Bikes Newsletter
The Boston Bikes e-newsletter keeps you abreast of all the news and activities surrounding Mayor Menino's exciting new bicycling initiative.
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  Youth Biker  
     
Hit The Road
Boston is blessed with countless organizations and businesses dedicated to helping you get started on the road to cycling. And if you don’t have a bike—that’s no excuse. You can either rent a bike or many of the classes provide bikes for free.
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Northeastern Student Project: Charlesgate Design
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Get Involved!
Here are a few ways you can get involved with the Boston Bikes Initiative ...
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Help create Boston’s first complete bike map… and have some fun, too!
The best bike maps are those created by cyclists for cyclists. So, whether you ride one day a year or every day for the last fifty years, we want to hear from you.
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Calendar
City CalendarSee a listing of upcoming bike events throughout the City.

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News & Press Releases
Summit Charts the Future for Boston Bicyclists
The Daily Free Press, 10/27/07
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Boston Improves as a Bike City
Boston Globe, 5/9/08
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Pedal Pushing: Menino Mounting Bid to Make the City a Bicyclist's Dream
The Boston Globe, 9/20/07
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