The town could be getting safer for bikes in the coming months. The Board of Selectmen is scheduled includes an item entitled "bicycle safety initiative" tonight, according to their agenda posted on the Town website.
The Board will look at the issue as part of their Monday night agenda, scheduled for 9:15 p.m. tonight.
The Selectmen have in the past discussed the notion of forming a bike committee at the last meeting with bike safety on the agenda. Such a committee would be made up of members of the police, department of public work, school committees, and selectmen, as well as advocates from the cycling and pedestrian communities in Wellesley.
At a previous meeting with the Board of Selectmen, cyclists around town thanked the Board for being willing to discuss the topic, and added that they generally feel unsafe while riding the town's roads.
At that same meeting, the brother of Alexander Motsenigos, Spiros, came to a Board of Selectmen meeting and was "heartened by level of sophistication of discourse."
He added, "It speaks volumes about the quality of the people here."
Alexander Motsenigos was the cyclist killed in July 2012 at the intersection of Linden Street and Weston Road. That crash among the driving factors in the discussions of bike safety in Wellesley.
The Board of Selectmen meet tonight at 7 p.m. at Town Hall. The discussion of bike safety is slated for 9:15 p.m., according to the agenda.
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