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A Common Story: Traffic Engineers Pit Safety Improvements Against Parking In Woburn Center Project
Preliminary designs for a redesign of streets around Woburn's town center aim to improve safety in a crash-prone area, but project designers are also offering an alternative scheme that would remove proposed bike lanes along Main Street to preserve 16 on-street parking spaces.
June 30, 2025
Want to Try Bike Commuting? Try A ‘Guided Ride’ From A Better City
This month, A Better City, a business organization focused on improving Boston's infrastructure, is hosting a series of "guided rides" to give novice bike commuters the knowledge and confidence they need to navigate the Boston region on a bike.
June 16, 2025
Column: What Does the Freedom of Movement Really Mean? Reflections from the Youth Bike Summit
While dozens of young people, many of them young people of color, celebrated each others’ accomplishments at the Youth Bike Summit earlier this month, there was also a heaviness at the weekend’s event regarding the growing presence and threat of anti-immigrant policing in communities across the country.
June 13, 2025
The Kids Are Alright: A Weekend of Connection, Curiosity, and Collective Action at the Youth Bike Summit
In the last weekend of May, young people and their adult allies from all over the country came together at Roxbury Community College for this year's Youth Bike Summit, hosted by the National Youth Bike Council and local nonprofits Bikes Not Bombs, Mattapan Food and Fitness, and sponsors like Transportation for Massachusetts, Boston’s Children Hospital, and the Barr Foundation.
June 11, 2025
Eyes On the Street: A Little Better On the B.U. Bridge
Several government agencies have collaborated on a suite of safety improvements on and around the B.U. Bridge.
June 5, 2025
Photos: The 2025 Youth Bike Summit In Roxbury
Over the weekend, young people and their adult allies from all over the country gathered at Roxbury Community College in Boston for this year's Youth Bike Summit.
June 3, 2025
Photos: Bike to Work Day 2025
Hundreds of commuters – and quite a few people who joined the ride just for fun – joined convoys from all around the region to converge at City Hall Plaza before the workday began Friday morning.
May 16, 2025
MassDOT to Reschedule Public Hearing for Mystic River Car-Free Bridge Project
Update: On Monday afternoon, hours before the meeting was scheduled to begin, MassDOT announced that "this meeting has been canceled and will be rescheduled for a later date." The hearing will now be held on June 24 at Somerville High School.
May 12, 2025
MassDOT Makes More Space for Bikes and Pedestrians In Revised Designs for Medford Main Street
"It really did feel like they really did listen and change a lot of stuff,” says Ellery Klein, a Medford road safety advocate.
May 9, 2025
Region Seeks New Operating Contract for Expanding Bluebikes System
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council, on behalf of the municipal owners of the Bluebikes system, has issued a 'request for proposals' for private-sector operators who can manage the system for the next five years.
May 2, 2025
