Where Should Massachusetts’s Next Car-Free Street Be?
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Last year, New York City banned cars on 14th Street; this month, San Francisco did it on Market Street. The results have been impressive and politically popular, as traffic has seemingly vanished without a trace. So, where should Massachusetts create its own car-free success story? StreetsblogMASS put the question out to several local advocates. Here […]
‘Safest Driver’ Data Reveal Where Boston’s Most Dangerous Driving Is
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Data collected from a city-sponsored safe driving competition reveal that Boston’s notoriously bad drivers are at their worst behavior on major high-speed state roadways that lie outside of the city’s direct control. In 2019, the City of Boston’s Office of New Urban Mechanics re-launched its “Boston’s Safest Driver” contest, an app-based competition that challenged travelers […]
America’s Mayors: Cars are Ruining Our Cities — But We Won’t Do Much About It!
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“I was really struck … about [the mayors’] unwillingness to support or implement things that we in transportation planning know are evidence-based ways to make roads safer for vulnerable road users,” said Katherine Levine Einstein, a Boston University political science professor.
Boston Starts Outreach For Hyde Park Ave. Bus and Bike Improvements
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Planners from the City of Boston and the MBTA held their first open house on Tuesday evening in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood to solicit ideas for “complete streets” and transit-priority improvements to Hyde Park Avenue, a major transit corridor and one of the only north-south routes into the neighborhoods of Hyde Park and Readville. […]
Everett, Somerville Advance Silver Line Extension Project
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A grant application document submitted to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission requests $425,000 for the “planning and design of the MBTA Silver Line bus rapid transit service from its current terminus in Chelsea, through Everett, Sullivan Square, and Washington Street in Somerville, and terminating at appropriate MBTA Red Line and/or Green Line intermodal facilities.”
State Proposes Modest Tweaks to Somerville's Deadliest Intersection
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A $5 million safety improvement project for the dangerous intersection of Mystic Avenue and McGrath Highway will provide basic accessibility upgrades to sidewalks and crosswalks, but largely will not address the reckless, high-speed driving behavior that killed two people in hit-and-run crashes in the area over the past year, according to plans presented by MassDOT […]
Helsinki Accomplished ‘Vision Zero’ in 2019
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Helsinki, home to 631,695 people, recorded zero pedestrian or cyclist fatalities on its streets for the entire calendar year.
State Breaks Ground On New Links To Northern Strand Trail
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The Baker-Polito administration announced last week the groundbreaking of a $13.7 million project to complete the remaining unbuilt sections of the Northern Strand Trail to Western Avenue in Lynn by the summer of 2022. Two separate projects – one by the City of Everett to extend the southern end of the trail to the Mystic […]
City, Encore Casino Studying Two New Gondola Links In Everett
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The City of Everett is seeking funds for a $200,000 gondola study that would include ridership projections, conceptual alignments and station designs, permitting needs, and budget estimates.
Advocates Spotlight Strange Math In MassDOT East-West Rail Study
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MassDOT believes that adding more passenger rail service between Springfield and Boston would cost more than twice as much – and attract fewer than one fifth as many riders – as a similar higher-speed rail upgrade on the Hartford Line between Springfield and New Haven.
The Green Line Is Taking A Summer Break
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The C and E branches will each close for a month this summer to accelerate track work and intersection upgrades. Will MassDOT give buses the space they need to pick up the slack?