Revolutionary Ride:
Bicycle Tour for Rails-to-Trails

On June 28, 2003, the communities of Bedford, Lexington, and Arlington hosted a bicycle-tour workshop on the Minuteman Bikeway for participants of TrailLink, Rails-to-Trails' national conference.

The 11-mile "Revolutionary Ride" bicycle tour covered all of the Minuteman Bikeway, from Bedford to the Alewife MBTA Station in Cambridge. Brief talks along the tour featured railroad and colonial history preservation efforts, ongoing trail maintenance and renewal, urban and rural trail-extension projects, multimodal transportation connections, and some of the many positive community developments stimulated by this popular rail-trail. At the tour's refreshment reception held in Arlington Center, a proclamation for Alan McClennen, Jr., was read to honor his role in creating the Minuteman Bikeway

Earlier this spring, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy featured the Minuteman Bikeway as RTC's Trail of the Month.

Volunteers from Arlington, Lexington, and Bedford (wearing yellow t-shirts) escorted the bicycle tour. Some photos from the tour appear below.

Community volunteers from Arlington, Lexington, and Bedford meet to lead the bikeway tour for Rails-to-Trails conference participants.

The whole group assembles for a photograph before the ride.

Starting the ride in Bedford.

Starting the ride in Bedford at the trailhead of the Minuteman Bikeway, where a vintage railroad passenger car has been situated in the new Bedford Depot Park.

The tour group heading east on the Minuteman Bikeway from Bedford.

PHOTOS taken by Scott Smith and Jim Shea.