Working together to make the city we love a place we LUV to ride in.
At HUBLUV, we believe that biking is not only a better way to get around Boston, but it’s also the best way to get out and connect, explore, exercise and enjoy life a little more, and we want to make that option accessible to everyone. That’s why we’re working in partnership with an awesome community of biking advocates. Together, we’re building and maintaining an amazing bike network that improves access to trail systems, connects towns and cities, and gets you wherever you want to go.
About Us
Two wheels. Endless possibilities.
Our Story
The HUBLUV program was started by Alexi and Steve Conine who began their bike-packing adventures in 1999, while living in London without a car. When the Conines moved back to Boston 20 years ago, they wanted to continue biking on an everyday basis, but realized the city lacked access to connected trail systems. They began working with organizations within the biking ecosystem to change that.
Through the Conine Family Foundation they aim to catalyze progress in building and enjoying the biking infrastructure in Boston through philanthropy and by creating the HUBLUV initiative that funds programs in four key areas and celebrates biking for all.
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Our Mission
HUBLUV’s mission is to build a bike network in Boston that would revolutionize the community by safely and reliably connecting people and places. HUBLUV serves as a hub for the eco-system and a place to elevate and celebrate the grantees and partners in the greater Boston area biking community.
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Our Grantees
Supporting organizations that support our mission.
By partnering with other local biking advocates who share our passion for creating a safe, efficient biking infrastructure in Boston, we’re able to move our ambitious community goals forward.
Our funding priorities for the biking community fall into four categories: Infrastructure, Access, Advocacy, and Communications. Here is a listing of some of our Grantees:
AMC guides local communities to support the completion, enhancement, and the long-term protection of the Bay Circuit Trail. The Bay Circuit Trail is a 230+ multi-use trail that transverse Eastern Massachusetts.
The Roslindale Gateway Path Project proposal includes a unique boardwalk through the Arnold Arboretum’s Bussey Brook Meadow Urban Wilds that would enable a shared-use, off-road connection between Forest Hills Station and Roslindale Village.
Bike to the Sea has worked to create the Northern Strand Community Trail: a 11+ mile shared-use path connecting Everett to Nahant Beach. B2C organizes community programming and advocates for trail extensions, improvements and connections. B2C’s recently opened their Bike Kitchen; a Do-It-Yourself space for bicycle repair.
Bikes Not Bombs builds community and improves access to bikes, while recycling thousands of bikes each year. The Youth Pathways Program provides the opportunity for participants to learn everything from basic bike maintenance and city riding skills to professional bike mechanic skills, often leading to paid internships and earned bikes.
BCU is working to transform the streets of greater Boston into equitable and inviting people-centered spaces. Through organizing, advocacy, public actions, and holding city and state agencies accountable, BCU’s goal is to realize a vision of mobility justice on Boston’s streets and make them accessible and safe for everybody.
As the largest landowner in Massachusetts, this state agency plays a critical role in advancing infrastructure. HUBLUV is providing over $1 million in support of a few specific DCR/Mass Trails projects.
ELM is a nearly 125-year-old state-based advocacy organization that has sustainable transportation as a key focus area. We look to ELM to help with HubLuv’s state level policy and advocacy priorities.
Millions of people use the 3+ miles of shared-use pathways along the Charles River Esplanade every year. EA partners with DCR on capital projects, as well as programming, horticulture work and pathway safety initiatives in the park, to further the organization’s mission of maintaining, enhancing, and sustaining the Charles River Esplanade.
LivableStreets Alliance stewards the Emerald Network, a vision for 250+ miles of connected greenways and safe on-road connections that link people to where they live, work, and play.
The Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition is a statewide bicycling advocacy non-profit guided by the vision that everyone should be able to enjoy and benefit from safe and accessible cycling. MassBike educates and advocates for policies and programs that encourage and support community wellness, equity and inclusion, enable sustainable growth, drive economic vitality, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Mattapan Food & Fitness Coalition promotes health in the community through its Youth Development Program which focuses on transportation education and advocacy. Their Vigorous Youth group encourages biking as both exercise and alternative transport. Key MFFC events include the annual Mattapan on Wheels Bike-a-thon.
MAPC is the regional planning agency serving the people who live and work in the 101 cities and towns of Metropolitan Boston. The LandLine encompasses an ongoing plan implementing a 1,400-mile regional network of trails and greenways within the region. Trailmap is a definitive resource mapping all current and future trails and facilities in the region, useful to both recreationists and planners.
The Mystic Greenways Initiative, led by MyRWA in partnership with DCR, is connecting 25 miles of paths, improving hundreds of acres of parkland and engaging thousands of community members from the Mystic Lakes to Boston Harbor.
NepRWA partners with the Neponset River Greenway Council and DCR to carry out maintenance, improvements, signage, and planning for community events along the 13-mile multi-use Neponset River Greenway Trail.
NEMBA is a trails advocacy group dedicated to promoting mountain biking and preserving trails across 5 states with 35 chapters and over 10,000 members. Each year, volunteers lead around a thousand bike rides, run clinics, and advocate for recreational trails, besides hosting numerous trail maintenance events. In total, volunteers contribute 8,000 hours yearly to local parks and forests.
Where You Can Bike
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We recommend these maps and resources for biking in Greater Boston and surrounding areas.
New England Mountain Biking Association Trails
Click here for an interactive riding map on the MAPC website
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