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Harvard To Get 2 Upgraded Bikeways In 2020
In two separate but linked projects, the city is making plans for upgraded bike lanes on Mount Auburn Street from John F. Kennedy Street to Massachusetts Avenue and a new bi-directional bikeway on Quincy, Bow, and DeWolfe Streets.
March 13, 2020
Public Transit and Public Health
The new Coronavirus (COVID-19) started having a major impact on civic life in the Commonwealth this week: public agencies are cancelling meetings, universities are sending students home, traffic congestion has evaporated, and the MBTA started taking additional measures to disinfect stations and vehicles.
March 12, 2020
Livablestreets Report Keeps ‘Go Boston 2030’ on the Agenda, Not on a Shelf
In a new report released this morning, the LivableStreets Alliance says that Boston is making good progress on improving street safety, but by and large has yet to make significant progress on its ambitions to reduce traffic and air pollution by increasing biking, walking and transit use.
March 11, 2020
Boston Pitches Major Transit-Focused Redesign For Blue Hill Ave.
Because the vast majority of Blue Hill Avenue's neighbors identify as people of color, the addition of high-quality bus lanes and stations could offer a major improvement to inequities in the city's bus network, where black bus riders currently spend, on average, 64 more hours every year traveling than white bus riders.
March 5, 2020
City Proposes Road Diet, Protected Bike Lanes On Cummins Highway in Mattapan
The Boston Public Works Department is recommending a major reconfiguration of Mattapan's Cummins Highway to reduce vehicle speeds and add protected bike lanes, but drivers in the neighborhood are pushing back against the city's recommendations.
March 3, 2020
Thursday: Boston Hosts Events On Blue Hill Ave., ‘Connect Downtown’ Projects
City of Boston planners have scheduled two separate public meetings next Thursday, March 5 to present their progress on two major street safety projects: a transit-focused redesign of Blue Hill Avenue in the southern part of the city, and the "Connect Downtown/Southwest Corridor Extension" project, which is aiming to improve bike and pedestrian access into and through the neighborhoods surrounding the Boston Common.
February 27, 2020
State Breaks Ground On New Links To Northern Strand Trail
The Baker-Polito administration announced last week the groundbreaking of a $13.7 million project to complete the remaining unbuilt sections of the Northern Strand Trail to Western Avenue in Lynn by the summer of 2022.
February 12, 2020
DCR Reportedly Backpedaling On Planned Cambridge Safety Project
A proposed road diet for Gerry's Landing Road that would have reclaimed state parkland for recreational uses has been postponed so that DCR can prioritize car traffic.
February 3, 2020
Westfield Breaks Ground On Columbia Greenway Extension
A new trail link in the city of Westfield will extend a network of rail trails that leads all the way to New Haven, Connecticut.
January 30, 2020
Path Upgrades Under Discussion In Boston Common Master Plan
Planners for the City of Boston are preparing a new master plan for the Boston Common under guiding principles that recognize that the park is an important crossroads for people walking between Back Bay, Beacon Hill and downtown Boston.
January 16, 2020
