Nashua has great trails for recreational bike riding but lacks an intergrated infrastructure of bike lanes, bike sharing, bike stations, and a regional approach to the interconnection of bike routes. (I.E. Hudson has a master bike plan and route map) Nashua could create a similar document (as Hudson’s) to promote bike commuting.
Attention!!!!
This idea needs a champion, someone who has a sharp wittyness about them and strikingly good looks (Because they are fit from riding bikes all the time!). If you would like to promote the creation of safe accessable bike routes and facilities in the City of Nashua please adopt this idea as your own and campaign to get others to like this idea. The first two downtown public ammenity ideas that get to 200 likes get a feasablity study/promotion by Renaissance Downtowns to help the idea grow and build support for action!
Here are some great videos and informational bits about the progress of biking in cities…
Copenhagen Bike Revolution (video): (10 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rstEWMD89L8
Ottawa Cycling Network (video): (5min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDOtvXenLw8
Complete Streets Informational Brochure (PDF):
http://www.completestreets.org/webdocs/factsheets/cs-modeshift.pdf
I would love to see some way of making Nashua’s streets safer for bicyclists; especially Amherst Street!
Great idea, but the rail trail is not maintained and has become a dumping ground for garbage and abandoned furniture. There is no point in building more trails, if the city cannot maintain the one it already has.
Different sections of the rail trail have been “adopted”, but some of them are seriously neglected. We should start with cleaning up what we have first, before building more.
It would be great if the riverwalk, rail trail, library trail, and riverfront promenade were all connected to make one downtown trail system!
Check out what Portland, Oregon did with their problematic “Zoobomb” bikes:
http://bikeportland.org/2007/10/02/zoobomb-pyle-will-become-official-public-art-5369
They hired an artist to make a public sculpture to serve as a bike rack.