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Accessibility

Changes Coming to Jamaica Plain’s Arborway Parkway

Five college students in winter clothes stand around an older man wearing a Franciscan monk's habit, and a poster-sized display board with the title "Listen to Me! Stories of the unnoticed" on a grassy lawn in Boston Common. Downtown high-rises are visible on the horizon under grey skies.

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Emerson Students Amplify Under-Represented Voices from Boston’s Streets

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Christian MilNeil

A diagram showing recommended installation heights and four varieties of signage from MassDOT's bike route signage design guide. Gray outlines of a person walking and a person riding a bike are shown for scale against a light grid of horizontal lines that indicate height in 1-foot increments. The four example signs all have 7 feet of clearance underneath them. The leftmost sample sign, which is indicated as 18 inches tall by 24 inches wide, shows icons of a bike rider and pedestrian in white on a blue background above the words "Linear Route Name." To the right, the next sample sign shows two signs mounted on a single pole: the top sign is a smaller 8-inch-tall blue-background "Linear Route Name" indicator sign; below it, a green sign split vertically into three sections has three white arrows pointing in various directions next to three copies of the word "Destination." To that sign's right, a third sample sign shows the same 18-inch-by-24-inch blue "Linear Route Name" sign over a smaller sign with a single, bold white arrow on a green background. The fourth and rightmost sign, specifed as 6 to 8 inches tall, says "Street Name" in white on a green background.

New Wayfinding Guide Aims to Help Riders Find Their Way Across the Commonwealth

An animated GIF showing Congress Street in Fort Point as it is today – a wide two-lane street with on-street parking on both sides – alongside a rendering of how the street will look after a reconstruction project is finished, with protected bike lanes and widened sidewalks.

Boston Planning New Bikeways, Widened Sidewalks for Fort Point

a white car is parked in between two trees planted in the street.

What Planting Trees In the Street Could Look Like in Boston: Learning From Other Cities

A chain-link fence blocks the entrance to the JFK/UMass Red Line station.

Citing Structural Hazards, T Shuts Down Critical Access Point to JFK/UMass Station

children and parents play inside the new playscape next to City Hall.

PHOTOS: Boston City Hall Plaza’s Grand Opening

a paved bike and pedestrian path surrounded by trees next to a parking lot.

Bedford Voters Reject Minuteman Extension at Town Meeting

electric cars parked on a one way street with electric charging stations along both sides.

Cities and Feds Work on Accessibility Guidelines for Curbside Car-Charging Stations

Kea Wilson

Why Do People With Disabilities Have to Sue To Get Accessible Sidewalks?

Connecting people to information about how to improve walking, biking, and transit

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