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Boston Planning Additional Crosswalk, Bike Lane Upgrades Around Public Garden
The proposed intersection improvements around the Public Garden would upgrade the "Connect Downtown" bike lanes, give more space to people on foot, and transform a former right-turn lane into new parkland for the Boston Common.
December 14, 2021
Free Passes For Boston’s Main Street Workers Boost Transit, Bluebikes Ridership
Workers who got a $60 CharlieCard rode transit an average of 8.3 times during the first four weeks of the program, while workers with a smaller $5 CharlieCard took only 2 transit trips in the same period.
December 8, 2021
Inventories Take Stock of Growing Access to Bluebikes, Safer Bike Routes
Thanks to system expansions into more diverse neighborhoods, by 2021, non-white residents living in Bluebikes communities are slightly more likely to live near a bikesharing station than white residents.
December 6, 2021
Mass. Ave. Bridge Users Praise Improved Bike Lanes: ‘I Hope We See More of This’
MassDOT plans to leave the cones in place over the winter and evaluate the new layout for permanent implementation next year after analyzing its effects on user safety, bike traffic, car traffic, and bus speeds on the MBTA’s Route 1.
November 24, 2021
MassDOT Makes Plans to Extend Northern Strand Through Downtown Lynn
The project would build new two-way, curb-separated bike lanes along the south side of the Market Square roundabout (pictured above), the Lynn Common, and Market Street.
November 22, 2021
City of Boston, MBTA Win Funds to Transform Blue Hill Avenue
City officials have estimated that the project would benefit roughly 20,000 bus riders in Dorchester and Mattapan, reduce their collective commuting times by 800 hours every day, and, with less time wasted in traffic, allow the T to make over 100 additional daily trips on existing routes using the same number of buses and drivers.
November 18, 2021
MassBike Hands Out Free Lights for the Long Nights
MassBike’s “lights brigade” program sends boxes of bike lights to teams of volunteers to help make bike riders more visible during the long winter nights
November 8, 2021
Travel Guide: Wayland’s Aqueducts and the New Cochituate Rail Trail
I initially stumbled on the Cochituate Rail Trail in Framingham by chance last year. Since then, two substantial bridges over major roadways were craned in, and earlier this fall, the trail’s new extension into Natick Center officially opened to the public.
Juliana Cherston
November 6, 2021
A Roundup of Holdups
Updates on bus lanes in Brookline, the Bruce Freeman bridge in Concord, Orange Line slow zones, and more.
November 5, 2021
Dorchester’s Mass. Ave. Bikeway Project Delayed ‘Til 2022
In an email to project stakeholders on Wednesday afternoon, the Boston Transportation Department announced that its contractor would not begin work on the project until 2022.
October 27, 2021
