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Bicycling

How — and Why — To Start a Neighborhood E-Bike Library

A person wearing black pedals a bike away from the camera on a wide street lined with trees beginning to turn yellow in the autumn. The rider is using a protected bike path that's separated from the adjacent car lanes by barriers including a brick-paved median island in the lower left foreground.

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Cambridge Bike Lane NIMBYs Lose Again In Court

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Alewife bike parking

MBTA Seeking Upgrades to Station Bike Parking

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Two Massachusetts Projects Rank Among ‘America’s Best New Bike Lanes’

Although the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail bridge over Route 2 is still officially closed for construction, people are making their way around the existing barricades and riding their bikes on it. The left photo shows the paved portion on the south side of Route 2, while the right photo shows the unfinished, gravel portion on the northside just a few feet away. Both photos were taken this past Saturday, June 25th.

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Trails

New Trails We Can Look Forward to In 2024

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

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