The Boston Cyclists Union sponsored a pop-up park along the Centre Street bike route in Jamaica Plain for Park(ing) Day 2019.
We're ending the week on an optimistic note. This morning, thousands of people are convening in downtown Boston to demand faster, bolder action to cut greenhouse pollution in Massachusetts (which will require building cities with fewer cars).
The Climate Strike coincides with the annual Park(ing) Day, when designers and street safety advocates reclaim on-street parking spaces to create pop-up parks, and help their neighbors envision how much more inviting our streets could be when we replace storage for automobiles with public space for people. Dozens of parking spaces across the state are being replaced with pop-up parks today, from Boston to Pittsfield.
The Boston Cyclists Union set up a one--block bollard-protected bike lane on Cambridge Street for Park(ing) Day 2019. Cambridge Street is a busy bike route between the Longfellow Bridge and downtown Boston that currently lacks any bicycling facilities.For Park(ing) Day 2019, the Boston Cyclists Union set up a one-block bollard-protected bike lane on Cambridge Street, a busy bike route between the Longfellow Bridge and downtown Boston that currently lacks any bicycling facilities.
Cambridge Bicycle Safety took over a block's worth of parking spaces to establish a "bike lane-protected" bike lane on the eastbound side of Massachusetts Avenue near Central Square for Park(ing) Day 2019.Cambridge Bicycle Safety took over a block's worth of parking spaces to establish a "bike lane-protected" bike lane on the eastbound side of Massachusetts Avenue near Central Square for Park(ing) Day 2019.
Without a formal project agreement in place, MassDOT will receive only $8 million out of a $335 million "reconnecting communities" grant that the Biden administration had pledged.
The change comes just weeks before the MBTA rolls out a new bus lane enforcement system, which is expected to improve bus service considerably – at least on the dwindling number of streets where dedicated bus lanes still exist.
The state's final budget gives the T about $80 million less than it had planned to spend in the coming fiscal year to cover its payroll and other transit operating costs.
"Overall, residents of predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods are about four times more likely than residents of predominantly white neighborhoods to be struck as a pedestrian."
