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An MBTA Route 455 bus cruises down the newly-installed bus lane on North Common Street in Lynn on April 8, 2021. Courtesy of the MBTA.

Trot, Trot to Boston With New Bus and Bike Lanes in Lynn

By Christian MilNeil | Apr 16, 2021 | No Comments

The City of Lynn has completed a quick-build project that gives the city its first dedicated bus lane, plus a new bike route between the newly-extended Northern Strand Trail and the city’s downtown district. The new shared bus-and-bike lane (pictured above), a collaboration between the MBTA, MassDOT, and City of Lynn, opened this week on […]

A sketch plan of proposed new bus lanes and bike lanes on Centre Street in downtown Malden. Courtesy of the City of Malden.

Malden City Council Endorses More Bus, Bike Lanes for City Center

By Christian MilNeil | Apr 15, 2021 | No Comments

The current Centre Street is a four- to five-lane street built in the late 1970s, shortly after the city's new Orange Line station opened, over the buried headwaters of the Malden River.

New bus platforms and center-running bus transitway for the T's Route 22 buses are under construction near Walnut Ave. and Franklin Park in this March 3 photograph. The City of Boston and MBTA have secured funding to extend the new transitway northward along Columbus Ave. and Tremont St. to Ruggles station. Photo courtesy of the MBTA.

Boston, MBTA to Extend Columbus Ave. Bus Lanes to Ruggles

By Christian MilNeil | Apr 1, 2021 | No Comments

The new center-running busway with dedicated platforms will speed bus services along Boston's highest-ridership bus corridor.

Washington Street in Brookline with new sidewalks and protected bike lanes.

New ‘Controlling Criteria’ Will Require Sidewalks, Bike Lanes In State Road Projects

By Christian MilNeil | Mar 22, 2021 | No Comments

The newly-adopted controlling criteria for bike, pedestrian, and transit facilities lay out minimum standards to help ensure that all roadway users are considered from the beginning of a project's design process.

Appleton-Mass. Ave. safety improvements alternative 1

Town of Arlington Considers Quick-Build Improvements to Deadly Mass. Ave. Intersection

By Christian MilNeil | Mar 17, 2021 | No Comments

After last summer's fatal crash, the town's Select Board convened a new design review committee “to study and make recommendations for both short term and long term improvements to the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Appleton Street.”

Downtown Malden sidewalk blocked by a snowbank, credit WalkBoston

Boston Council Discusses Ideas to Improve Sidewalk Snow Clearance

By Christian MilNeil | Mar 16, 2021 | 1 Comment

Councilor Kenzie Bok, who represents Back Bay and Mission Hill, requested the hearing before the Council's Committee on City and Neighborhood Services after a large Nor'easter last December left some of her constituents housebound for days.

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