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Realigned curbs under construction at the intersection of Tremont Street and West Springfield Street in Boston's South End.

Tremont and Springfield construction 2022

Bicycling

Eyes On the Street: Protected Bike Lane Construction in Roxbury and the South End

New separated bike lanes on Massachusetts Avenue in front of Cambridge City Hall.

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Protected bike lanes

City of Cambridge Will Miss Cycling Safety Ordinance Deadline With Porter Square Project Delay

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DCR Issues One More Call for Feedback on Arborway Redesign

Bluebike station locations in 2010, 2016, and 2021. When the system launched a decade ago, it primarily served higher-income, whiter neighborhoods in central Boston. However, thanks to new stations, non-white and lower-income residents of these cities and towns now enjoy more equitable levels of access to the bikesharing network.

Bluebike Station growth since 2010

Inventories Take Stock of Growing Access to Bluebikes, Safer Bike Routes

Portrait of Whitney Zhang of Boston on the Cambridge side of the Mass. Ave. Bridge on Nov. 23, 2021

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Mass. Ave. Bridge Users Praise Improved Bike Lanes: ‘I Hope We See More of This’

A wide multi-lane street with cars waiting at a red traffic light dusk.

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City of Boston, MBTA Win Funds to Transform Blue Hill Avenue

Bike traffic on the Massachusetts Avenue bridge heading towards Cambridge on the evening of August 4, 2021.Bike traffic on the Massachusetts Avenue bridge heading towards Cambridge on the evening of August 4, 2021.

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Advocacy Opportunities

Advocates Petition for Protected Bike Lanes on Mass. Ave. Bridge Before Year’s End

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Dorchester’s Mass. Ave. Bikeway Project Delayed ‘Til 2022

Plans for the reconfiguration of outer Massachusetts Avneue in Cambridge. The City of Cambridge has updated its plans for outer Massachusetts Avenue, near the Arlington town line, to add a second outbound dedicated bus lane, in addition to protected bike lanes. An earlier version of the plan (at left) would have only provided one, inbound bus lane.

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City of Cambridge Adds Another Bus Lane to Outer Mass. Ave. Redesign

Somerville Ave. features sidewalk-level protected bike paths in each direction, new stormwater collection gardens, and improved sidewalks and crosswalks.

Somerville Ave looking east towards Boston

Eyes On the Street: More Space for Pedestrians and Bikes in Somerville