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Eyes On the Street: Better Bike Lanes For Allston and Brighton
The Boston Transportation Department has been busy in Brighton this fall: the city has reconfigured three neighborhood streets to calm traffic and add separated lanes for bikes and scooters.
October 15, 2024
Blue Cross Offers Free Bluebikes Trips for World Mental Health Day
For World Mental Health Day, Blue Cross, title sponsor of Bluebikes, is offering free Bluebikes day passes on Thursday, Oct. 10.
October 10, 2024
Bluebikes Celebrates 25 Million Rides With $25 Credits
The following brief is a lightly edited version of a Bluebikes press release.
October 2, 2024
Somerville To Start Implementing New Bike Plan With Connections Near Porter Square
A year after adopting a plan for a citywide network of protected bike lanes, the City of Somerville is getting ready to implement protected bike lanes and numerous pedestrian safety improvements on a trio of streets between Porter and Davis Squares.
September 20, 2024
Boston Will Start Building Dartmouth Street Protected Bikeway This Fall
Within the next few weeks, the City of Boston will start work on another link in its growing network of protected bike routes with a new two-way on-street bikeway on Dartmouth Street in the Back Bay neighborhood.
September 12, 2024
Eyes On the Street: Somerville Fits In Some New Bus, Bike Infrastructure Near Union Square
This summer, the City of Somerville is re-building Washington Street, a key bus and bike route west of Union Square.
September 2, 2024
Friday Video: How (and Why) To Paint a Ghost Bike
Roadside memorials can make the human costs of our traffic violence crisis visible — at least until someone tears them down. That's why filmmaker made it his mission to restore two ghost bikes that had vanished from Boston roads.
August 30, 2024
Travel Guide: Biking From the Border to Boston
The Border to Boston trail is a proposed 70-mile route that will eventually connect Seabrook, New Hampshire to downtown Boston via Newburyport, Salem, and Lynn along abandoned railroad rights-of-way.
August 27, 2024
More Bluebikes Coming Soon: City of Boston Plans 100 New Bikesharing Stations Across the City
Editor's note: this article is an edited City of Boston press release.
August 12, 2024
Local Advocates Will Bring National Youth Bike Summit to Roxbury in 2025
Advocates from two local nonprofits – the Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition and Bikes Not Bombs – will help host the annual Youth Bike Summit in the city of Boston next summer.
August 8, 2024
