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PARTNERS | HEALTHY CITY | HOW HEALTHY | VISION | SUMMIT | PRIORITIES | FUNCTIONS | CITY OF FALL RIVER |
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At the invitation of the Fall
River Bike Committee, the
South Coast Pathway
Committee, and the
Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District
(SRPEDD), over thirty cyclists rode from Warren, RI to Somerset,
MA and the new Veterans Memorial Bridge to demonstrate the vision for a Southcoast
Regional Bikeway from Providence to Provincetown. The bikeway, once
realized, will be a 50-mile continuous system of bike paths (or multi-use
paths) and bike lanes that will connect Rhode Island to Cape Cod. Cities
and towns included in this plan are Swansea, Somerset, Fall River,
Westport, Dartmouth, New Bedford, Fairhaven, Mattapoisett, Marion, Wareham
and Bourne. Several segments of the bikeway already exist in Swansea, Fall
River, New Bedford, Fairhaven and Mattapoisett and are available to riders
and walkers now. Plans
to complete the path through Fall River are currently underway. Click
here
for pictures from the Southcoast Bikeway Summit and here
for the East Bay Bike Path ride. For more information,
contact Fall River Mass In Motion coordinator Julianne Kelly, at 508-324-2405
or Fall River Bicycle Committee Chairman Brian
Pearson. (Bottom
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(Top row, left) Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District (SRPEDD) Transportation Planner Adam Recchia collects liability waivers from the riders. (Top row, center) Mass In Motion coordinator Julianne Kelly greets Frank Menezes. (Top row, right) Fall River Bicycle Committee Chairman Brian Pearson heads out of the Hugh Cole Elementary School parking lot with the group. (Middle row) Riders start off on one leg of a newly-completed bike path in Warren and then ride past the Swansea Mall, on portions of the Swansea bike route through the Swansea Village and into Somerset on Stevens Road. (Third row, left) Cyclists ride past the marina on the Taunton River in Somerset before arriving at Pierce Park for the half-way stop. (Third row, center) Cyclists including Ward Weathers, YMCA Southcoast Vice President & COO Nancy Bonell, Adam Recchia, Healthy City Fall River coordinator David Weed, Logan Wood, Deborah Roher, Frank Menezes and Brian Pearson, enjoy the chance to rest at the park. (Bottom row, left) Adam Recchia finds the park on his map of the South Coast Bikeway, a 50-mile continuous system of bike paths (or multi-use paths) and bike lanes that will connect Rhode Island to Cape Cod. (Bottom row, right) Adam leads the bikers along the new wide bike path to the top of the Veterans Memorial Bridge to Fall River.
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