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Highways

MassDOT Starts Planning For Tobin Bridge Replacement

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Christian MilNeil

A paved bike path runs alongside a two-lane road (right) and a sidewalk (left) under some trees. In the middle distance in the upper-left corner is a brick school building.

Street Design

Eyes On the Street: Dutch-Style Infrastructure In the Suburbs of Springfield

Traffic congestion

MassDOT Analysis: Commutes Are Faster For Everyone After Buses Got Their Own Lane On Tobin Bridge

An extra-long articulated bus in the white, yellow, and black MBTA color scheme waits in traffic on a wide multi-lane street with a red light in the distance. An electronic sign in a side window of the bus says "28 MATTAPAN." A street sign on the left says "Rexford Street".

Boston Wants to Redesign Blue Hill Ave. For Bus Riders, But Car Owners Dominate Public Meetings

A photo-illustration rendering shows families with strollers on the sidewalk on the left, a parent and child riding bikes through a crosswalk in a bike lane next to a tan-painted island, and an MBTA bus in the distance.

Bicycling

City of Cambridge Begins Hampshire Street Protected Bike Lane Installation

Turners Falls shared streets and spaces project in Montague, Mass.

MassDOT

MassDOT’s ‘Shared Streets and Spaces’ Grants Will Continue Into 2024

An evening city street scene on Boylston Street near Copley Square. On the left side of the photo is a busy sidewalk and a Chick-Fil-A restaurant. On the street in front of the restaurant, four cars, three of them double-parked, occupy the multiple-lane street; a food delivery driver is stepping out of one of the cars while a second car is attempting to drive between the others to fit in closer to the curb.

Back Bay NIMBYs Try A Gruesome New Threat Against Protected Bike Lanes: ‘Someone Will Die’

Tremont Street in the South End. In the right foreground is a newly-installed median island paved in bricks and ringed by a granite curb and topped with an orange construction barrel. In the background a pedestrian crosses the street among more construction barrels. On the right, a bicycle rider passes in the opposite lane. Historic brick rowhomes line both sides of the street.

Tremont Street Safety Project Isn’t Complete, But Crashes Are Already Plummeting

Petru Sofio

A person on a bike rides past a green bike signal alongside a walk sign while roughly a dozen cars wait at a red light on the opposite side of the street. A sign in the foreground reads "Turning vehicles yield to [bike and pedestrian pictograms]" while a sign next to the walk signal says "No Turn On Red." The street is lined with 3-5 story brick buildings.

Op-ed

Guest Column: Why Boston’s New Traffic Signal Policy is a Big Deal

A wide intersection with a small island planted with flowers in the foreground. The street is lined with multi-story buildings with small businesses on the ground floor. A group of three teens crosses the crosswalk in the middle distance.

Vision Zero

Andover Town Officials Ignored Residents’ Warnings About Site of Fatal Crash