Bike the Seaway Trail!

Biking Buffalo-Niagara? Do you have your Regional Transportation Council Bicycle Route map for the region? Pick up the latest, 2009, edition at the Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center in Hamburg on Route 5! You can also download them from the Regional Transportation Council in two parts - one and two - but they are awfully large and more useful as paper maps in your hands! Come pick up a free copy at LESTC or from one of several other distributors of this fine resource.

The Seaway Trail Guide to bicycling the Trail (for the eastern region of the Trail). This is available for purchase at the Center or by mail order for $5, plus $2.50 s/h. Send check to Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center, PO Box 97 Hamburg NY 14075. A reference copy is also available at the Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center in Hamburg.

If you are a fan of bicycling and appreciate its history, a visit to the nearby (Orchard Park, New York) Pedaling History Museum is in order! Update: some sad bicycling news: Bicycle Museum collection has been sold and the Museum will close in 2009.

Courtesy of bikely.com members, user-created maps of interesting Buffalo-area bike rides, Niagara County and Erie Canal bike rides, and Chautauqua County ride

Blazing The Trail on Two Wheels feature article from The Great Lakes Seaway Trail Journey magazine.

Business First of Buffalo reported in December 2008 that a regional council has adopted a bicycling master plan designed to make bicycling and walking an integral part of daily life in Erie and Niagara counties. The Greater Buffalo-Niagara Regional Transportation Council, a federally designated metropolitan planning organization for the region, adopted a bicycle and pedestrian master plan in late November. The plan, which follows others adopted in 1981 and 1997, sets projects and policies for the next 10 years. Previous master plans were for initiatives such as the Riverwalk, the Scajaquada pathways and the Outer Harbor plan, said Timothy Trabold, principal transportation analyst with the transportation council. The council includes membership by the cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, the two counties, Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, state Department of Transportation and the NYS Thruway Authority.