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The Claire Saltonstall Bikeway, also known as the Boston to Cape Cod Bikeway, is a 135-mile bikeway marked as Bike Route 1 that starts on the Charles River Bike Path near Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts and winds along Boston's Emerald Necklace, using mostly back roads and bike paths with occasional stretches of secondary highways.
Bluebikes, originally Hubway, is a bicycle sharing system in the Boston metropolitan area.As of 2023, the system had deployed 480 stations with a fleet of over 5,300 bikes in the 10 municipalities it served.
Boston has an active Critical Mass ride group, and MassBike is a bike advocacy group active in supporting cyclists in the area. [15] [16] The LivableStreets Alliance, headquartered in Cambridge, is an advocacy group for bicyclists, pedestrians, and walkable neighborhoods. [17]
Map from 1946, where Boston & Maine Railroad (B&M) passes along the route of today's Minuteman Bikeway The path comprising the current Minuteman Bikeway has a long history. The trail closely approximates the route that Paul Revere took on his famous ride in 1775, which heralded the beginning of the American Revolution.
The Somerville Community Path extension connects the Boston end of the Charles River Path to the network of mixed-use trails to the northwest. Sequential connections heading north starting at the Watertown Branch Rail Trail , the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway , the Fresh Pond Bikeway, and the Alewife Brook Parkway Path, also connects to the ...
At the end of the 19th century, cycling was especially popular in Boston, and Outing Magazine at the time described Boston as "the bicycling paradise of America". [2] The city's cyclists were pivotal in the formation of the national organization League of American Wheelmen , and Massachusetts had the largest per capita membership in the league ...
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The Cape Cod Rail Trail (CCRT) is a 25.5-mile (41.0 km) paved rail trail located on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. [2] The trail route passes through the towns of Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, Brewster, Orleans, Eastham, and Wellfleet.