Photo via the mayor's office.
The city today formally opened a "bike town" at Moakley Park in South Boston aimed at giving kids a way to safely learn how to ride a bike in an urban setting.
Looking like a giant version of those road mats you can get for little kids (UHub affiliate link), Boston's first bike town will let kids get more comfortable riding a bike, even in a big city:
Bike towns are small-sized street networks, often with scaled-down traffic features, designed to teach children how to safely navigate urban street systems and increase their overall confidence in bike riding.
This is just the first bike town planned for Boston. Using a grant from Children's Hospital, the city also plans to put down a similar area for young bike riders at Ross Playground in Hyde Park, with a third park to be named later.