Doug Mink

MassPaths
Webmaster

• experience bicycle issues first hand on a year-round bicycle commute of 20 miles a day (12 of them on bikepaths) from the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston (where the hills are) to my job as an astronomical software developer for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• serve as vice-chair of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Metro Boston Chapter
• manage the MassPaths web site,
• manage the massbike mailing list,
• work on bikepaths as a member of the Neponset River Greenway Council and the Emerald Necklace Greenway project,
• serve on the board of the Boston Natural Areas Network (formerly the Boston Natural Areas Fund), which sponsors the Neponset River Greenway Council as well as the East Boston Greenway Council, which is developing a bikepath, too,
• dream of connecting bikeways throughout Massachusetts
• plan those bikeway connections by working on the Massachusetts portion of the East Coast Greenway since 1991.

I have

• been president of the Boston Area Bicycle Coalition three times, and was a board member for all all but the first three years of its existence,
• been the first president of the Bicycle Coalition of Massachusetts, which grew out of the BABC and is now the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition,
• served on the boards of those organizations for 15 years from 1980 to 1995 (and again from 2004-2006),
• served on the Boston Bicycle Advisory Committee until its demise in 2003.
• planned bike routes with the City of Boston,
• advocated bikes on trails as chair of the Statewide Trails Advisory Board for three years during the 1980's,
• worked on bikepaths as an advocate for the extension of the Charles River Bikepath and the construction of the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway,
• co-coordinated Boston Bike Days in 1986, 1987, and 1988.
• worked on, and sometimes run Bike Weeks from 1980 through 2011,
• worked on Bikes on the T and other intermodal issues for almost 20 years.
• made some changes in my life in 2011