Christian MilNeil
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Next Monday: Somerville Hosts Public Hearing On Broadway Bus Lanes
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On Monday evening, Somerville will host a public hearing at City Hall to discuss early traffic and transit data from the city’s new bus and bike lanes on on Broadway in Winter Hill. The meeting will be hosted by the City Council’s Traffic and Parking Committee and the city’s Traffic Commission. Following a presentation of […]
Cambridge Will Ax Two Car Lanes From Harvard Square
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After a truck driver struck and killed a 67-year-old retiree in Harvard Square earlier this fall, Cambridge officials announced that they will remove car lanes from Brattle Street and Massachusetts Avenue around the square’s central plaza as part of a construction project scheduled to begin next June. Since 2017, the City of Cambridge has been […]
‘Uncommon Noise’ Pulls New Orange Line Trains From Service, Again
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The MBTA’s new Orange Line trains, which debuted this summer, have been taken out of service indefinitely while engineers investigate an “uncommon noise” coming from the underside of the new trains. “With safety as a top priority and out of an abundance of caution, the decision was made to temporarily remove the new cars from […]
Drivers In Worcester Have Killed Two People in the Past 24 Hours
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In two separate incidents, drivers killed two people walking on the west side of Worcester.
Many Holdups, Little Accountability For Delayed Street Projects
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Some delays in complex construction projects may be inevitable. But in a state with serious traffic and transportation challenges, and with millions in taxpayer funds at stake, it’s reasonable for Massachusetts citizens to expect better outcomes.
DCR Kicks Off Redesign For Arborway In Jamaica Plain
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The state Department of Conservation (DCR) is kicking off a comprehensive redesign project to improve safety and create a new, separated bike and pedestrian route along the Arborway in Jamaica Plain. At a public meeting at the Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Thursday evening, DCR officials explained that they are about to hire a team […]
MassDOT Allston Plans Would Plant A Highway Over the Charles River
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In order to make room for construction workers, project planners have proposed relocating the Soldiers Field Road and Paul Dudley White bike path to a "temporary" mid-river highway that would remain in place for ten years while the rest of the project is built.
Walsh Administration Delays West Roxbury Safety Proposal
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Universal Hub reports that interim Boston Transportation Department Commissioner Gregory Rooney is delaying its decision on his staff’s Vision Zero proposal to fix the deadly four-lane layout of Centre Street in West Roxbury where a person driving a car killed Marilyn Wentworth earlier this year. The self-described West Roxbury Safety Association, a neighborhood group that […]
Globe Puts Spotlight On Beacon Hill’s Gridlocked Car Culture
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The Boston Globe has debuted its latest Spotlight report, “Seeing Red,” with a hard look at how state politicians are failing to deal with the region’s burgeoning traffic problems. “Massachusetts is moving in the wrong direction — barely moving at all, in fact — on efforts to reduce congestion. In the last five years in […]
Bus Lanes On Warren Street Could Save Riders Millions of Hours Every Year
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Planners from the Boston Transportation Department’s transit team shared some early concepts to bring bus-priority lanes to Warren Street, a heavily-used bus route that carries over 20,000 bus riders every day, at a public meeting in Roxbury last Thursday evening. To set the stage for the discussion, project planner Lindiwe Rennert shared a presentation with […]
State House Leadership Issues Final Draft of Distracted Driving Bill
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Leaders of a conference committee in the State House have finally submitted a final version of a distracted driving bill that passed by overwhelming margins in the House and Senate earlier this spring, and the bill could face a final vote this week. The bill declares that “no operator of a motor vehicle shall hold […]
Street Safety Advocates Hold ‘Day of Remembrance’ Vigil This Sunday
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The state’s leading safe streets advocacy organizations are holding a vigil on the steps of the Massachusetts State House this Sunday to commemorate those who have been injured or killed by motor vehicles. The Massachusetts event is one of hundreds of vigils being held globally on the World Day of Remembrance on November 17, 2019. […]