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Free Passes For Boston’s Main Street Workers Boost Transit, Bluebikes Ridership

Bluebike station locations in 2010, 2016, and 2021. When the system launched a decade ago, it primarily served higher-income, whiter neighborhoods in central Boston. However, thanks to new stations, non-white and lower-income residents of these cities and towns now enjoy more equitable levels of access to the bikesharing network.

Bluebike Station growth since 2010

Inventories Take Stock of Growing Access to Bluebikes, Safer Bike Routes

Portrait of Whitney Zhang of Boston on the Cambridge side of the Mass. Ave. Bridge on Nov. 23, 2021

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Mass. Ave. Bridge Users Praise Improved Bike Lanes: ‘I Hope We See More of This’

Rendering of the proposed Northern Strand on-street bikeway on South Common Street, approaching Market Street, in downtown Lynn.

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MassDOT Makes Plans to Extend Northern Strand Through Downtown Lynn

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City of Boston, MBTA Win Funds to Transform Blue Hill Avenue

Riders on a bike path show off their new bike lights.

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MassBike Hands Out Free Lights for the Long Nights

The new section of the Cochituate Rail Trail in Natick opened earlier this year, and connects the village of Saxonville in Framingham to Natick Center.

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Travel Guide: Wayland’s Aqueducts and the New Cochituate Rail Trail

Protected bike lane on Washington St in Brookline

A Roundup of Holdups

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Dorchester’s Mass. Ave. Bikeway Project Delayed ‘Til 2022

An architect's rendering shows two bridges crossing a river. The illustration of the new bridge, on the right, shows a bridge with large arches swooping over the water. The illustration is superimposed on a photograph that shows an existing, plainer railroad bridge on the right.

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Baker Admin Commits Funding for Proposed Mystic Greenway Bridge