The Revitalist

Mayor Menino is determined to make Boston more bike friendly. He has hired former Olympic cyclist Nicole Freedman to be the city's bike czar. The first phase of his pro-bike initiative will include 250 new bike racks and an online map for scouting best routes. He wants to implement a network of bike lanes that serve the major avenues and connect the city through the Emerald Necklace. The Globe article points out that these sorts of initiatives have started and stopped in the city before. But this time several members of the administration are cyclists, and Menino, himself, has been tooling around his neighborhood on a silver Trek. There is also a certain amount of inter-city competitiveness around the country to see who can make his city more green, more transit-friendly, etc. This might just be the nudge that the city needs to go from talk to execution.