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DCR Starts Shutting Cars Out of Park Roads to Reduce COVID-19 Risk
The Department of Conservation and Recreation has announced new limits on vehicular traffic on Chickatawbut Road in the Blue Hills Reservation and a portion of Fellsway West in Medford.
April 5, 2020
Cambridge City Council Considers Opening Streets for Outdoor Exercise
On Monday evening, the Cambridge City Council (with most councilors calling in to participate by teleconference) discussed two policy orders that could give people walking and bicycling more space during the COVID-19 pandemic by closing city streets to car traffic.
March 31, 2020
‘Safest Driver’ Data Reveal Where Boston’s Most Dangerous Driving Is
Data collected from a city-sponsored safe driving competition reveal that Boston's notoriously bad drivers are at their worst behavior on major high-speed state roadways that lie outside of the city's direct control.
February 20, 2020
Baker Administration Promotes Montgomery As New DCR Commissioner
The Baker administration today announced that Jim Montgomery has named as the new Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), an agency in charge of managing the Commonwealth's parklands as well as several high-speed "parkways" in the Boston region.
February 5, 2020
DCR Reportedly Backpedaling On Planned Cambridge Safety Project
A proposed road diet for Gerry's Landing Road that would have reclaimed state parkland for recreational uses has been postponed so that DCR can prioritize car traffic.
February 3, 2020
Baker Budget Portends Changes For Boston’s Waterfront ‘Parkways’
Under the Governor's budget proposal released Wednesday, ownership of four Department of Parks and Recreation roads - Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road, Day Boulevard and Morrissey Boulevard - would be transferred to MassDOT.
January 23, 2020
MassTrails Wants To Fund Your Trails Projects
Grant applications are due by February 1.
January 17, 2020
DCR Kicks Off Redesign For Arborway In Jamaica Plain
The state Department of Conservation (DCR) is kicking off a comprehensive redesign project to improve safety and create a new, separated bike and pedestrian route along the Arborway in Jamaica Plain.
November 21, 2019
For Priority Trails-To-Transit Projects, MBTA Can’t Get Out of Its Own Way
Today's Boston Globe reports on the ongoing efforts to build a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Mystic River to connect Everett to the Assembly Orange Line stop, and how administrative bottlenecks at the MBTA are hampering the project in spite of broad financial and political support.
October 4, 2019
A Network of Rail-Trails Comes Together In Boston’s Suburbs
This fall, trail advocates and officials are celebrating ribbon cuttings on two significant new trail connections in the suburbs west of Boston: a 2.5 mile segment of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail through West Concord, and a 4.5 mile segment of the Wayside Trail (part of the longer Massachusetts Central Rail Trail, which extends from Somerville to Northampton) in Weston and Wayland.
October 1, 2019