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On Alewife Brook Parkway, Organizing (and Adjusting Traffic Signals) for a Slower, Safer Street
The "walk and talk" event on Wednesday evening brought out dozens of neighborhood advocates, including Somerville city councilors, local transportation engineers from the public and private sectors, state Rep. Christine Barber, and state Sen. Patricia Jehlen.
June 2, 2022
Two New Trail Links Open, Connecting Greenways North of Boston
A tour of the new Charlestown Seawall trail, which connects Draw 7 Park in Somerville to Alford Street in Boston, and the new Watertown-Cambridge Greenway, which connects the Alewife Red Line station to Watertown Square.
May 9, 2022
Arlington Makes Plans to Connect Minuteman, Mystic River Paths
The Town of Arlington is soliciting feedback on a possible new multi-use path that would connect the Alewife Brook Greenway to Arlington Center and the Minuteman Bike Path along the Mystic River waterfront.
April 4, 2022
DCR Issues One More Call for Feedback on Arborway Redesign
A DCR spokesperson told StreetsblogMASS that a timeline for implementing the proposed changes in a construction project hasn't yet been determined.
February 14, 2022
Internal Email Raises Safety Concerns for Dorchester’s Beades Bridge
After David Jones fell to his death on a broken stairway near the JFK/UMass station, a high-ranking @MassDCR official emailed his colleagues with a warning: “This incident gives me new motivation on the Beades issue.”
January 26, 2022
DCR Announces Scaled-Back Memorial Drive Road Diet for 2024
The latest proposal, as described in the ENF, would reconstruct a 0.8-mile length of Memorial Drive and its multi-use pathways between the Eliot Bridge and the Anderson Bridge (JFK Street).
January 18, 2022
MassDOT Shares Early Concepts for Taming Wellington Circle
Local stakeholders in an advisory working group expressed a desire to see less asphalt and fewer lanes through the intersections in MassDOT's proposed designs.
January 6, 2022
MassDOT Makes Plans to Extend Northern Strand Through Downtown Lynn
The project would build new two-way, curb-separated bike lanes along the south side of the Market Square roundabout (pictured above), the Lynn Common, and Market Street.
November 22, 2021
State Records Show MassDOT Overlooked Broken Stairway At JFK/UMass Station
A MassDOT bridge inspection in February 2020 acknowledged that the stairway to the JFK/UMass station had been closed, but did not address why, or recommend any repairs. Courtesy of MassDOT.
November 15, 2021
Eyes On the Trails: More Mystic River Greenways In the Works
Two trail segments that are nearing completion in Everett, Boston, and Somerville will provide crucial links to the proposed Mystic River bike and pedestrian bridge.
October 22, 2021
