Arlington Reapplies To Be A Bicycle-Friendly Community

Arlington MA

04 March, 2021

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Your Arlington Last Updated: 02 March 2021 Written by town planning The Town of Arlington recently reapplied to renew its Bicycle Friendly Community status awarded by the League of American Bicyclists. To help the League of American Bicyclists gain a better understanding of local bicyclists' experiences and perceptions of bicycling in Arlington, the town would appreciate your help in providing feedback by completing a short survey created by the League by March 31. Fill out the public survey >> Arlington has been nationally recognized as a Bicycle Friendly Community at the Bronze level since 2012. The Bicycle Friendly Community program provides a roadmap to improving conditions for bicycling and guidance to help communities achieve their vision for better, bikeable places. With this reapplication, the town is seeking to improve its BFC standing and achieve the Silver award level by reporting on the advances in bicycling that the town has made since the last reapplication in 2016. These advances include: implementing bike lanes on Mystic Street and Lake Street, safety improvements for users of the Minuteman Bikeway in Arlington Center with the Safe Travel Project; expansion of the Bluebikes bike share system into Arlington, updating the bicycle parking zoning ordinance and creating Bicycle Parking Guidelines; lowering the townwide speed limit to 25 mph on most roads, removing the operating hours on the Minuteman Bikeway and the development of Connect Arlington, the Town's Sustainable Transportation Plan. Award results from this round of applications will be announced in May. For more information about biking in Arlington and the reapplication, contact Daniel Amstutz, senior transportation planner in Arlington's Department of Planning & Community Development at 781-316-3093 or damstutz at town.arlington.ma.us. YourArlington.com has provided news and opinion about Arlington, Mass., since 2006. Publisher Bob Sprague is a former editor at The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Arlington Advocate. Read more at https://www.yourarlington.com/about.