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Christian MilNeil

A crowd of people on bikes rides down an empty four-lane highway. On the left side of the roadway are large trees and multi-story brick buildings; on the right is the Charles River with the Boston skyline in the distance.

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Street Design

DCR Will Start Tearing Out Pavement for Memorial Drive Narrowing Project In 2025

Signs alongside a roadway read "Hammond Pond Parkway – Massachusetts Dept. of Conservation and Recreation" and "Hammond Pond Parkway Improvement Contract No. P23-3501-C3A Newton MA" next to some orange construction cones and freshly-laid asphalt and stacks of granite curbing.

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Eyes On the Street: State Conservation Agency Converts Asphalt to Parkland In Newton

Pots of flowers line the edge of a bike lane alongside a wide multi-lane highway lined with trees. In the distance the skyscrapers of downtown Boston are visible on the horizon.

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State Officials Say Work to Improve Safety at Lethal Memorial Drive Crash Site Will Begin On Monday

Several pedestrians and a person on a bike pass each other on a narrow sidewalk next to a wide multi-lane highway.

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Crashes

SUV Driver Kills Bicyclist On Memorial Drive Bike Path in Cambridge

A trail though leafy woods leads to a tunnel under a roadway in the middle distance. Three signs stacked vertically on a signpost next to the trail in the foreground read "End / Bruce Freeman Rail Trail / Ahead"

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Trails

MassTrails Program Grants $12 Million for 65 Trail Projects Statewide

A purple-and-silver MBTA commuter rail diesel train crosses the North Station drawbridge over the Charles River with the high-rises of downtown Boston in the background.

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Will A New Rail Bridge Across the Charles Include a Long-Promised Walkway to North Station?

A gravel path under construction behind a metal fence next to a grassy lawn

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Eyes On the Street: ‘Clippership Connector’ Comes Together in Downtown Medford

Aaron Lu

A freshly-paved two-lane road is lined with orange construction barrels stretching into the distance. The road is surrounded by trees just beginning to grow their leaves. A wide dirt track runs along the right edge of the pavement.

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