Christian MilNeil
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A Walk Audit of Worcester
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If Worcester has ambitions to become a more walkable, transit-oriented city, streets like West Boylston Street in the city’s Indian Lake neighborhood – a bit over a mile north of downtown – present a major obstacle. West Boylston Street was historically the main road leading north of the city towards its eponymous suburb. Then, in […]
Eyes On the Street: I Survived Worcester’s New Kelley Square
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When the StreetsblogMASS website launched in the spring of 2019, one of the original three stories on the home page was about Worcester’s Kelley Square, and a MassDOT plan to completely rebuild the seven-way intersection with a peanut-shaped roundabout. Two years later, that project (pictured above) is mostly complete. This past winter, I took my […]
New Plan Plots a Course for Cross-State Trail Through Central Massachusetts
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A newly-released feasibility study gives the state a detailed plan for finishing the Massachusetts Central Rail Trail (MCRT), a proposed 104-mile pathway from Northampton to downtown Boston that would largely follow the railbed of the abandoned Massachusetts Central Railroad. About one third of the trail’s length has already been developed for bike and pedestrian traffic […]
It’s Worcester Week on StreetsblogMASS
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We’re focusing our coverage this week on Worcester, New England’s second-biggest city. After decades of destructive urban renewal schemes, Worcester can be a challenging place to get around for people who don’t own a car. Compared to the rest of Massachusetts, Worcester has higher-than-average rates of injury-causing crashes, and lower rates of transit ridership. Which […]
Downtown Boston’s Tontine Plaza to Be Made Permanent
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Millennium Partners hopes to start construction on the new plaza in June.
Help Pick A Route for the Silver Line Extension Through Everett
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Planners seek feedback on potential alignments that would extend the Silver Line busway from its current terminus in Chelsea into Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, and downtown Boston.
Advocates Pan Proposed Expansion of Policing in Baker ‘Safety’ Bill
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Advocates remain in the dark about what's being proposed, and are concerned about the administration's focus on policing instead of preventing crashes.
MassGeneral Expansion Plans Include Space for New Blue Line Station
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The MBTA is also budgeting $15 million for "planning funds to extend the Blue Line to Charles/MGH."
Logan Airport Invites Travelers to Honor Earth Day By Incinerating Gasoline
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The airport argues that driving to the airport and paying for their on-site parking is "good" for the environment because it's only half as bad as driving there twice for a pickup and drop-off.
Trot, Trot to Boston With New Bus and Bike Lanes in Lynn
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The quick-build project helps connect the newly-extended Northern Strand Trail to the city’s downtown district.
Malden City Council Endorses More Bus, Bike Lanes for City Center
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The current Centre Street is a four- to five-lane street built in the late 1970s, shortly after the city's new Orange Line station opened, over the buried headwaters of the Malden River.
Boston Aims to Launch E-Cargo Bike Delivery Pilot in 2022
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The city wants to change its financial and political incentives to encourage more bike deliveries.