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 Not off the road in the cool mountain biking sense. This, from Simsbury Patch, appears to be the best reporting so far on the stupid s...

I was hoping for a rope swing to get over the busway at Flower Street. A source has forwarded an email to the beat bike blog from the ...

You may recall that the Putnam Bridge was supposed to be refurbished and the DOT declared that a bike/ped lane was impossible. There wa...

Connecticut government is much maligned. Rightly so, for the most part, but the General Assembly and Government got their shit together ...

Quick update: SB 445 didn't get even get called for a vote in committee. Looks like we can be as irresponsible as we like on our sid...

Remember how recreational land use reform was supposed to be a foregone conclusion after last legislative session? Well, it's not. T...

Some Hartford voters As part of the beat bike blog's ongoing civic engagement initiative, we're reminding you to go vote again....

Apparently, after hundreds of years of oppression, we may be able to buy liquor on Sundays by the end of the year. See here.  I'm no...

When you nail a pothole that should have been fixed five years ago and wonder who to complain to (besides your friends and at The Beat Bike ...

I like my Mondays oppositional. Read this and feel the same way.

Public hearing season is almost done and there's one more recreational liability bill up for a hearing, this time it's before the ju...

Even this trail! Remember the MDC trails? Remember CT's flawed municipality liability law? Me too! So, let's go testify again, this ...

At times, I've considered getting rid of my car. I don't drive it very much and I have pay for its upkeep, taxes & fees, attempt...

Tomorrow, I turn 26 and you what that means: I have to get a new drivers license. So, this morning I went over to the DMV in Wethersfield. T...