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D.C. Cyclist Jim Pagels Killed by Driver Hours After Tweeting About Unsafe Roads
April 13, 2021
Protecting Non-Motorists Makes NTSB ‘Most Wanted List’ For the First Time
For the first time in its 54 year history, the transportation sector's most influential investigative agency wants America to focus on protecting vulnerable road users. What took so long?
April 7, 2021
Opinion: Safe School Transportation Has A Place in the Next Infrastructure Package
April 5, 2021
New ‘Controlling Criteria’ Will Require Sidewalks, Bike Lanes In State Road Projects
The newly-adopted controlling criteria for bike, pedestrian, and transit facilities lay out minimum standards to help ensure that all roadway users are considered from the beginning of a project's design process.
March 22, 2021
Bike Light Legislation Renews Debate Over Policing’s Role In Traffic Safety
"There are concerns we have that this would be enforced through police interactions, and we know those to be inherently inequitable, and that they lead to more drastic incidents for people of color."
March 19, 2021
Plan for Franklin Park Would Ban Cars From Circuit Drive
"We want to elevate multimodal routes for bikes and pedestrians," said Lydia Gikas Cook, a landscape architect working on the plan, on Wednesday.
March 10, 2021
Northampton Resets Its Planning Process for Main Street Redesign
Northampton plans to reconstruct its Main Street in 2025, and the project presents an opportunity to redesign the wide Main Street corridor from the intersections of Elm and West Streets, at the edge of the Smith College campus, to Market and Hawley Streets, near the railroad viaduct.
March 1, 2021
Before Its Teardown, Somerville’s McGrath Highway Could Get A Road Diet
An obsolete six-lane expressway that slices through East Somerville will, by the end of this summer, become a four-lane expressway with wide buffered bike lanes.
February 24, 2021
Somerville Council Requests New Design with Protected Bike Lanes for Highland Ave.
District Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen said that "I have become increasingly convinced that it is indeed possible - not only possible, but really essential - that we include protected bike lanes on Highland Ave."
February 15, 2021
