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A wide 5-lane street at sunset with three traffic lights mounted on yellow poles showing red lights.

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Street Design

Highway Engineers Sought Exemptions From Safe Street Design Requirements In Springfield’s $19 Million Rebuild of ‘The X’

A rendering of a bus rapid transit station with red-painted bus lanes in the center and large boarding platforms on either side. Signs on top of the canopies above the platform say "community college". On either side of the platform are crosswalks and multiple lanes for car traffic.

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Bus lanes

Boston’s Next Bus Rapid Transit Line Would Link Downtown, Sullivan Square Before the End of This Decade

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Regional Transit Authorities

New Year, No Fares: Beacon Hill Bankrolls Dozens of Free Bus Routes Statewide

A concept plan shows a grid of new streets – most of which are 4-5 lanes wide – overlaid on top of the vacant triangle of land between Cambridge Street and I-90 in Allston. Four new streets, labelled (from west to east) Seattle St. Connector, Stadium Way Connector, Cattle Drive Connector, and East Drive Connector – would run north-south from I-90 to Cambridge Street. Four other streets would run east-west, roughly parallel to I-90 and the Worcester Line train tracks: two streets are essentially frontage roads for I-90, the northerly (eastbound) which is labelled "Lincoln St. Connector". A block north is a street labelled "Cambridge St. South." And in the northeastern tip of the triangle, running only between Stadium Way Connector and Soldiers Field Road, is a street labelled "Hotel Way"

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Highways

Allston Project’s Next Challenge: Keeping the Turnpike’s Traffic Jams Out of A New ‘Transit-Oriented’ Neighborhood

A row of docked blue, white, and black ValleyBike shared bikes parked along a paved street under the shade of some leafy trees.

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Bikesharing

City of Northampton Seeks Bids to Reboot ValleyBike By April

Although the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail bridge over Route 2 is still officially closed for construction, people are making their way around the existing barricades and riding their bikes on it. The left photo shows the paved portion on the south side of Route 2, while the right photo shows the unfinished, gravel portion on the northside just a few feet away. Both photos were taken this past Saturday, June 25th.

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Trails

New Trails We Can Look Forward to In 2024

A young black woman with glasses and a black puffy winter coat and a young Hispanic woman in a blue winter coat holding up two fingers in a peace sign pedal on new electric Bluebikes through City Hall Plaza. Behind them are rows of more new bikes and office buildings in the distance.

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Electric Bluebikes Have Arrived in Boston

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Housing

New Transit-Oriented Housing Law Has Yet to Produce Much New Housing In Boston’s Suburbs

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Worcester Council Will Consider 25 MPH Citywide Speed Limit

A photo of a street in Chinatown. In the distance on the left, several construction workers shovel asphalt to patch a hole in the street, which is roped off around the construction site. On the right, a Boston Police officer in a green high-viz vest talks on his phone while watching the work.

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New Boston Police Contract Will Let Civilians Direct Traffic at Some Construction Sites