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Christian MilNeil

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Elections and Politics

Hand-Count of Ballots Gives Incumbent Marjorie Decker Apparent Victory In Close Cambridge State House Race

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Make A Plan to Vote In Today’s Primary Elections

A new sidewalk-level bike lane under construction adjacent to a two-lane city street. Cones and construction barrels litter the bike lane. In the foreground is a raised crosswalk next to a traffic signal.

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Street Design

Eyes On the Street: Somerville Fits In Some New Bus, Bike Infrastructure Near Union Square

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Bicycling

Friday Video: How (and Why) To Paint a Ghost Bike

Two pedestrians cross a crosswalk in a wide street with a potholed concrete median. The street is lined with new mid-rise buildings, about 8 to 10 stories tall.

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Boston Will Build Another New Curb-Protected Bike Lane On Harrison Ave. Next Year

An MBTA subway diagram highlighting slow zones on the system as of August 29. Clusters of slow zones remain on the Braintree branch of the Red Line in lower right and the ends of the Orange Line, with a scattering of other individual slow zones on the inner-core segments of the Red, Green, and Orange lines.

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MBTA

Last Week’s Red Line Closure Fixed 6 More Slow Zones

A map of the Harvard Square area illustrating route changes for the MBTA 66 bus, which will now run through the Harvard bus tunnel to connect to the Red Line underground.

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T Updates Routing for Bus 66 Through Harvard Bus Tunnel

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Advocacy Opportunities

Bill Would Finally Ding Automakers’ Safety Ratings on Huge Cars That Kill Pedestrians

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Travel guides

Travel Guide: Biking From the Border to Boston

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Housing

New Plans for Riverside Green Line Station Call for More Housing, Less Parking

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