Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Street Design

An MBTA Route 73 bus travels along Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge during the "pilot" phase of bus priority measures in fall 2018. Photo courtesy of Ad Hoc Industries via BostonBRT.

Cambridge, Watertown Declare Success for Mount Auburn Bus Lanes

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 12, 2019

The “pilot” phase for the new Mount Auburn bus lanes in Cambridge and Watertown is over, and the two municipalities are making the new bus lanes and transit-priority traffic signals a permanent amenity for riders of the 71 and 73 MBTA’s “trackless trolley” bus routes. “Based on the results of the evaluation and the extensive […]

New flexpost-protected bike lanes have been installed on the Craigie Bridge in front of the Boston Museum of Science, seen in this August 8 photograph looking south towards Boston.

Eyes on the Street: New Bikeways on Charles River Dam

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 9, 2019

One of the first stories that StreetsblogMASS covered was a May public meeting on MassDOT’s plans for a road diet and new flexpost-protected bike lanes on Craigie Bridge (also known as Charles River Dam Road) in front of the Boston Museum of Science. Eyes on the street: the new flexpost-protected bike lanes have been installed […]

The cover image from the 2019 MassDOT Pedestrian Transportation Plan.

Meet Your New Massachusetts Bike and Pedestrian Plans

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 6, 2019

Last month, MassDOT released its new statewide Bicycle Transportation Plan and a separate Statewide Pedestrian Transportation Plan, the culmination of a two-year planning effort organized around the vision of making biking and walking “a safe, comfortable, and convenient option” for everyone in Massachusetts. The state is also putting some significant money on the table to make […]

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Research Shows Drivers Are More Reckless Near Women Cyclists

By Angie Schmidt | Aug 2, 2019

A new study measuring passing distances in Hennepin County, Minn., finds that drivers are much more likely to pass female cyclists at an unsafe distance.

Powder House Boulevard at the southern edge of the Tufts University campus in Somerville, pictured in May 2019.

Parking Trumps Bike Lanes on Powder House... for Now

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 1, 2019

In a more conciliatory public meeting Wednesday night, city officials raised the possibility of installing a one-way protected bike lane on Powder House Boulevard in 2020, and emphasized the expected safety benefits of traffic-calming measures that are being installed on the street this summer. While safety advocates and bicyclists in particular have been focused on […]

In Powder House Project, Parking Blurs Somerville’s ‘Vision Zero’

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 31, 2019 | 1 Comment

A community meeting tonight will discuss a recent repaving project on Somerville’s Powder House Boulevard, where a motorist killed a woman in a crosswalk in front of a neighborhood school this February. The project, which improves the boulevard from Alewife Brook Parkway to the southern edge of Tufts University in West Somerville, has pitted safety […]

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