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Two people sit on a wide granite bench with wood slats on the benchtop beneath a canopy of cantilivered steel blades on an under-construction bridge. To the left water is visible beyond a chain-link fence.

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Walking

Eyes On the Street: An Upgraded Freedom Trail Across the New North Washington Street Bridge

A rendering of a street with three moving vehicle lanes in the middle, a parking lane on the left curb, and a two-way bike path along the right curb. In the middle distance is a crosswalk and a white-and-yellow MBTA bus is approaching in the opposite lane.

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Street Design

City of Newton Plans Protected Bike Lanes, Road Diet For Washington Street

A sunset view down a mostly-empty, wide four-lane street lined with small businesses and parked cars.

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Bicycling

Eyes On the Street: West Roxbury’s New Protected Bike Lanes

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A bike lane, marked by two parallel white lines, with a row of flexible-post bollards in between the two white lines. In the foreground is a speed hump marked with white triangles. A row of cars is parked on the left side of the street. The Lamartine Street traffic signal is visible in the distance.

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Eyes On the Street: Safer Side Streets In Jamaica Plain

A photograph of a bridge with a bike lane at left, and a man riding a bike toward the camera, and two car lanes to the right. A column of white flexible-post bollards with a handful of orange construction cones occupies the buffer zone between the bike lane and the car lanes. In the distance, at the end of the bridge, are some trees and the tall buildings of the Boston skyline.

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Protected bike lanes

Eyes On the Street: Posts Replace Cones on Mass. Ave. Bridge

A long line of cars waits in two lanes of stopped traffic on the right, while on the left, a single car drives down a roadway next to a wide bike lane. A concrete median divides the two sides of the road, and on the edges of the photo are large, mature leafy trees.

Arborway traffic congestion

DCR Plans Confirm There Will Be Less Space for Bikes In the Arborway’s Most Dangerous Intersection

Several people in business suits ride Bluebikes across the bricks of City Hall Plaza under blue skies. Boston's concrete City Hall is visible in the right background.

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Bikesharing

Mayor Wu Announces Discounted Bikeshare Passes for Boston Residents

State Parks Agency Will Reduce Space for Bikes to Expand Traffic Jams On the Emerald Necklace

Two people on bikes ride on a green-painted bike lane towards an arched bridge on the horizon. Next to them are four lanes for motor vehicles being used by two cars, and a wide sidewalk on their right.

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Advocacy Opportunities

Advocates Organize for Safer Access Across Boston University Bridge

A paved bike path runs alongside a two-lane road (right) and a sidewalk (left) under some trees. In the middle distance in the upper-left corner is a brick school building.

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Eyes On the Street: Dutch-Style Infrastructure In the Suburbs of Springfield