"Bike program gives youth a path for life" July 25, 2011|By Bella English, Globe Staff
On My Way, On My Bike, a pilot program which started earlier this month, is a collaboration among the nonprofit Bikes Not Bombs, which is dedicated to peace and social change, the city of Boston, and Brandy Cruthird, who runs a nonprofit fitness program in Roxbury for city youths....
Cruthird does outreach and enrollment, and many of the children are referred to her by neighborhood clinics. She takes their weight and body mass index periodically, charting their progress.
Related:
"Researchers calculated the body mass index - a standard measurement of size.... There is growing debate about the accuracy of the standard method of calculating whether someone is overweight.... the system would put nearly half of NBA players in the overweight category"
How fast can you pedal away from lies, kids?
Cruthird, Sarah Braunstein of Bikes Not Bombs, and Neil Leifer, who left his law firm a year ago to focus on children’s public health issues, are always on site at Cruthird’s gym or on the rides, overseeing bike lessons and repairs....
I should have known.
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"Biking violations unpunished; Law meant to keep pedal-pushers in line turns out to be toothless" by Peter DeMarco, Globe Staff / August 8, 2011
A newly enacted provision called for police across the state to begin ticketing bikers $20 for civil motor vehicle violations starting last January. For the first time, police could use the same ticket book for motorists and bicyclists, with copies of every ticket going to the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
But, as police, court administrators, and Registry officials became aware this spring, the law also inadvertently did away with punishments for bicyclists who fail to pay tickets.
Without any clear way to collect fines or punish those who ignore tickets, authorities have been left with a procedure reliant on the honor system. As a result, it appears that a number of police departments are choosing not to ticket bicyclists. Boston police, as of last week, had issued 60 warnings - but zero tickets - to bikers since the Hubway added 600 bikes to city streets.
They shouldn't be anyway, not in a free country.
Boston police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll acknowledged in an e-mail that the department was aware of the lack of teeth in the law....
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Related: Boston looks to make city safer for bicycles
Boston by bike is a smooth ride (even if the cab and the subway proved faster)
Taxi a fast but costly trip in race against bicycle, subway
Subway a cheap second in race against bicycle, taxi
Also see: Skipping the Boston Globe Bike Ride
Bikes and Burritos in Boston
Where is the nearest bathroom?
Update: Bike sharing programs save lives, study finds
Related: Morning Bike Ride in Boston
So how many more fatal lies are you going to tell in your endless agenda-pushing, Globe?
