May is National Bike Month and this year’s theme is One Ride, Many Reasons. To highlight and celebrate the many benefits of bicycling, throughout May the League of American Bicyclists will bring you the personal reflections and inspirations of a diverse collections of bicyclists from coast to coast with daily 31 Days, 31 Reasons blog feature. And who better to kick it off than the U.S. Secretary of Transportation himself?

The Greater Bridgeport Regional Planning Agency has applied for a $150,000 grant that would set up a professional bike-sharing program.

A public workshop on the Merritt Parkway Multi-Use Trail Feasability Study that took place at Osborn Elementary School in Fairfield Tuesday night was aimed at uncovering concerns and opportunities and suggestions the Connecticut Department of Transportation could consider implementing if the trail ever comes to fruition. Click on this environmental headline for more on this story from Environmental Headlines.

A critical passenger railroad right-of-way corridor is under attack by rails to trails advocates. Their plan would eliminate the possibility of direct passenger rail service between New London and Hartford. If revived as a passenger rail corridor, this could be one of the most spectacular scenic train rides in New England.

This week, Connecticut Post reporters have been walking, biking and taking trains and cars to work and facing the challenge of getting around mass transit’s missing links. Read more about this story by clicking on this environmental headline above.

This week, the Alliance for Biking and Walking released its 2012 Benchmarking Report, and the timing is impeccable. As Streetsblog points out, the release coincides with the soon-to-appear national surface transportation bill, and in the tri-state region, it comes just after state legislatures have gotten into full swing. With statistics, case studies and loads of
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The Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) and Metro-North Railroad (MNR) are requesting customer feedback on the pilot study of bike mounts on the New Haven Rail Line.

Dave Bonan Gave Away His Car In 2001 And Has Since Logged Thousands Of Miles On His Bike

After nearly two decades on the drawing board, supporters of a planned 37.3-mile bicycle and pedestrian path on the historically designated Merritt Parkway hope a pending $1.4 million study to consider the envisioned route will help move the project forward.

New Haven’s intrepid cyclists politely crashed an I-95 groundbreaking with a show of pedal power and a written plea to the governor: While you prepare to spend another $357 million on cars, consider spending some more money on bike paths too.

With its unique assets, you might think the country’s leaders would be foursquare behind the two-wheeler and support pro-biking policies. Unfortunately, you would be wrong.

Bicyclists are finding numerous flaws and inefficiencies in ctbikemap.org, which launched this year to alert riders of hazardous conditions on state roads.

Georgette Yaindl, a bicycle advocate from Hawaii is relocating to West Hartford to head the Bike Walk Connecticut advocacy group.

The arrest of an off-duty Windsor Locks police officer in the Oct. 29 accident that killed a 15-year-old bicyclist is prompting legislative leaders to consider revamping standards by which candidates for police work are trained and evaluated. via Windsor Locks Bicyclist’s Death Spurs Legislative Interest – CTnow.

In its continuing efforts to cut campus pollution, University of Con­necticut staff and student leaders will actu­ally be taking a cue from the university’s past. The Undergraduate Student Government is working with the university’s Office of Environmental Policy, the Homer Babbidge Library and the EcoHusky student group to create a program called “UConn Cycles.” via
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Bicycles and pedestrians are beginning to get some long-overdue attention as road users. About 150 people gathered at Central Connecticut State University for the state’s first Bike-Walk Summit Saturday, Nov. 13. Participants learned about the latest developments at the Connecticut Department of Transportation, heard about national trends in community planning such as “Complete Streets,” got
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Paul Hammer will explain the issue of bikes on trains at the next CT Rail Commuter Council meeting, which begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, at the CT DOT offices in New Haven.

UConn’s Storrs campus is initiating a bike sharing program that will ease transportation around the sprawling campus, improve traffic congestion, help the environment and likely burn a few calories for those who do the pedaling.

In October, Paul Hammer, John Binford and Jongwook “Wookie” Kim officially launched CaBike!, a dream of theirs almost two years in the making.

The recently-unveiled route for the Naugatuck River Greenway, a proposed 22-mile regional trail stretching from Thomaston to Beacon Falls and designed to promote local residents’ enjoyment of the outdoors, if built will run through several undeveloped borough-owned parcels. via Greenway would pass through brownfields | Citizen’s News.