Photos: Three New Trails To Look Forward To in 2021
Three new trail projects in Boston's suburbs are poised to open for traffic in early 2021: the Cochituate Rail Trail in Natick, the Cambridge-Watertown Greenway, and the extension of the Northern Strand Trail in Revere, Saugus, and Lynn.
December 28, 2020
Meet Peter Cheung, MassBike’s ‘Advocate of the Year’
If you ride a bike in the Boston area, odds are pretty good you've run into Peter Cheung: he's often leading the pack for large group rides like the Ride for Black Lives and the Boston Bike Party, and he's also the person behind many of the region's ghost bike memorials to the victims of traffic violence.
December 27, 2020
Brookline Considers Bus Lanes For Its Biggest Transit Bottleneck
The proposal would benefit the town's busiest bus corridor, a heavily-congested bottleneck where three busy bus routes converge near the Boston border.
December 23, 2020
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We're thinking about how we can grow and improve StreetsblogMASS in the new year, and we want to hear from our readers.
December 22, 2020
Massachusetts Will Join Conn., R.I. and D.C. in New Transport Cap-and-Trade Program
e set aside to fund transit, bike, and pedestrian improvements, in order to give New Englanders more options to get around without burning gasoline.
December 21, 2020
It’s #Sneckdown Season
One silver lining to the recent snow: it's left thousands of "sneckdowns," places where snowbanks have narrowed down the roadway and forced cars to slow down considerably (a "snow neckdown").
December 21, 2020
BTD Backtracks On Safety Improvements For Deadly Section of Mass. Ave.
"We will reinstall protections for the bike lane basing our work on the crash evaluation," said BTD Commissioner Greg Rooney in a statement.
December 17, 2020
Biden Admin. Appoints Pete Buttigieg for Sec. of Transportation
Buttigieg will have a major responsibility in making sure the Biden administration meets its climate goals.
December 15, 2020
Could Flipping Parking Lots Help End Car Dependence?
Miami-based startup REEF Technology made headlines last month when it raised $700 million to buy up parking lots and rapidly transform them into a range of more profitable uses.
December 15, 2020
T Board Approves Scaled-Back Package of Transit Service Cuts
"We're glad to see them walk back some of the cuts, but we still believe these cuts are rushed and unnecessary," said TransitMatters executive director Jarred Johnson.
December 14, 2020
