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Seasonal Station Removals Put Dorchester’s Bluebikes Network on Ice

<p>Sam Mintz is currently the editor of <a href="https://brookline.news/">Brookline.News</a>, a nonprofit news website covering the Town of Brookline. Before moving back to the Boston area in 2021, Sam spent five years in D.C. covering Congress and federal agencies for Politico and E&amp;E News.</p>


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A woman wearing a sweatshirt, patterned skirt, and bike helmet pedals a battery-powered e-bike with a large cargo compartment that's covered in a red fabric tent in front of her handlebars.

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Prospective Buyers Await Details of Mass. E-Bike Rebate Program

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How To Bike Through a New England Winter

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A diagram showing recommended installation heights and four varieties of signage from MassDOT's bike route signage design guide. Gray outlines of a person walking and a person riding a bike are shown for scale against a light grid of horizontal lines that indicate height in 1-foot increments. The four example signs all have 7 feet of clearance underneath them. The leftmost sample sign, which is indicated as 18 inches tall by 24 inches wide, shows icons of a bike rider and pedestrian in white on a blue background above the words "Linear Route Name." To the right, the next sample sign shows two signs mounted on a single pole: the top sign is a smaller 8-inch-tall blue-background "Linear Route Name" indicator sign; below it, a green sign split vertically into three sections has three white arrows pointing in various directions next to three copies of the word "Destination." To that sign's right, a third sample sign shows the same 18-inch-by-24-inch blue "Linear Route Name" sign over a smaller sign with a single, bold white arrow on a green background. The fourth and rightmost sign, specifed as 6 to 8 inches tall, says "Street Name" in white on a green background.

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New Wayfinding Guide Aims to Help Riders Find Their Way Across the Commonwealth

An animated GIF showing Congress Street in Fort Point as it is today – a wide two-lane street with on-street parking on both sides – alongside a rendering of how the street will look after a reconstruction project is finished, with protected bike lanes and widened sidewalks.

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Boston Planning New Bikeways, Widened Sidewalks for Fort Point

A photo illustration of a proposed new shared-use path. A wide, paved path runs through the middle of the image and is lined on both sides by trees and shade. To the left is a wooden guardrail and a two-lane roadway.

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DCR Proposes New Trail Connection from Hyde Park to Blue Hills

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Bedford Voters Reject Minuteman Extension at Town Meeting

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Could North Washington Bridge Delays Create Space for a Permanent Busway to Charlestown?

Two people ride bikes along new bike lanes, separated from the car lanes by rows of white flexible-post bollards, on Massachusetts Avenue near Dana Street in Cambridge.

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Cambridge to Upgrade Hampshire Street Bike Lanes in 2023

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Travel Guide: A Cozy Weekend Getaway To the Coast