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Somerville planners Brad Rawson (left) and Justin Schreiber in front of the city's new bus lanes at the top of Winter Hill on November 22, 2019.

Next Monday: Somerville Hosts Public Hearing On Broadway Bus Lanes

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 6, 2019 | No Comments

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 […]

Brattle Street in Harvard Square next to the Out of Town News kiosk, shown in a May 2019 file photograph.

Cambridge Will Ax Two Car Lanes From Harvard Square

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 5, 2019 | No Comments

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 […]

DCR Kicks Off Redesign For Arborway In Jamaica Plain

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 21, 2019 | No Comments

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 […]

A MassDOT sketch of a proposed mid-river highway installation that would carry Soldiers Field Road and the Paul Dudley White bike path for the decade-long reconstruction of the Massachusetts Turnpike through Allston. Courtesy of MassDOT.

MassDOT Allston Plans Would Plant A Highway Over the Charles River

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 20, 2019 | No Comments

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.

The cover of the Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Boston Globe, with the first of three stories from the "Seeing Red" Spotlight report.

Globe Puts Spotlight On Beacon Hill’s Gridlocked Car Culture

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 19, 2019 | No Comments

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 […]

The "Roxbury Love" mural on Warren Street near Dale Street.

Bus Lanes On Warren Street Could Save Riders Millions of Hours Every Year

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 18, 2019 | No Comments

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 […]

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