Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Street Design

Morning view of Hyde Park Avenue in Forest Hills, Boston.

Boston Starts Outreach For Hyde Park Ave. Bus and Bike Improvements

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 17, 2020 | No Comments

Planners from the City of Boston and the MBTA held their first open house on Tuesday evening in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood to solicit ideas for “complete streets” and transit-priority improvements to Hyde Park Avenue, a major transit corridor and one of the only north-south routes into the neighborhoods of Hyde Park and Readville. […]

A map of pedestrian routes (highlighted in red) through the junction of McGrath Highway and Mystic Ave. in Somerville, the city's most dangerous intersection for crashes.

State Proposes Modest Tweaks to Somerville's Deadliest Intersection

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 13, 2020 | No Comments

A $5 million safety improvement project for the dangerous intersection of Mystic Avenue and McGrath Highway will provide basic accessibility upgrades to sidewalks and crosswalks, but largely will not address the reckless, high-speed driving behavior that killed two people in hit-and-run crashes in the area over the past year, according to plans presented by MassDOT […]

A rendering of an on-street protected bikeway and widened sidewalk on Market Street in Lynn - part of a planned project to extend the Northern Strand Community Path through downtown Lynn to the city's waterfront at Nahant Beach. Courtesy of the City of Lynn's 2019 Walking and Bicycling Network Plan.

State Breaks Ground On New Links To Northern Strand Trail

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 12, 2020 | No Comments

The Baker-Polito administration announced last week the groundbreaking of a $13.7 million project to complete the remaining unbuilt sections of the Northern Strand Trail to Western Avenue in Lynn by the summer of 2022. Two separate projects – one by the City of Everett to extend the southern end of the trail to the Mystic […]

Congress Street in downtown Boston at the start of the evening rush hour on February 5, 2020.

Where Should Massachusetts’s Next Car-Free Street Be?

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 10, 2020 | No Comments

Last year, New York City banned cars on 14th Street; this month, San Francisco did it on Market Street. The results have been impressive and politically popular, as traffic has seemingly vanished without a trace. So, where should Massachusetts create its own car-free success story? StreetsblogMASS put the question out to several local advocates. Here […]

MBTA workers replace rail inside the Haymarket Orange Line station. Courtesy of the MBTA.

The Green Line Is Taking A Summer Break

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 6, 2020 | No Comments

The C and E branches will each close for a month this summer to accelerate track work and intersection upgrades. Will MassDOT give buses the space they need to pick up the slack?

A recently-paved section of the Dedham Heritage Rail Trail in the City of Boston, pictured in October 2019. Across the town line in Dedham, advocates are still waiting for town leaders to move forward with a long-planned greenway that would link downtown Dedham to the Readville commuter rail station in Boston.

Advocates Put Dedham Rail Trail On April Ballot

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 4, 2020 | No Comments

Supporters of the Dedham Heritage Rail Trail have collected over 2,100 signatures to put an advisory referendum on the ballot for the town's April 11 municipal election.

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