:Cyclostat

Dear Boston Bikers,

As a fervent advocate of procrastination, I like to check out the websites of local governments and catalog cyclist oriented budget expenditures, and report them here – on my amazing blog. If anyone else wants to check out the proposed 2010 budget for somerville, you can find it here.

The first thing I’d like to talk about are bike lanes. Hey! They’re coming! I know that 2 miles isn’t much, but it’s more than nothing. Plus, somerville is really only 4 square miles.

Figure 1: Two miles of bike lanes in the budget.

I was really happy to see that urban cycling initiatives still made the list, albeit nearly last on most lists.

Figure 2 Shape up somerville

The fiscal year 2010 goals gives away where next years bike lanes are going to be. Elm (woo!) Mauslin (?) and Washington (that just makes sense).

Figure 3: List of Goals

Oh and this is the first I’m hearing of a Cambridge, Somerville, Belmont bikeway (figure 4). WTF is this? They are budgeting for both design and engineering projects, so I assume that they are still figuring out how to work it.

In any case, I’m psyched that this was budgeted in. I’m sure a lot of people in the know (Shane, I’m looking at you) already had an idea of these projects, but a) I don’t keep up with this and b) you don’t really ever know until the budget comes out.

Figure 4: The Bikeway

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