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Eyes On the Street: Better Bike Lanes For Allston and Brighton
The Boston Transportation Department has been busy in Brighton this fall: the city has reconfigured three neighborhood streets to calm traffic and add separated lanes for bikes and scooters.
October 15, 2024
The 1,000-Page Document That Decides Your Street Designs Just Got a Refresh
For better — or more often, for worse — a single federal document dictates what nearly every American street looks like. Meet the MUTCD.
October 11, 2024
Somerville To Start Implementing New Bike Plan With Connections Near Porter Square
A year after adopting a plan for a citywide network of protected bike lanes, the City of Somerville is getting ready to implement protected bike lanes and numerous pedestrian safety improvements on a trio of streets between Porter and Davis Squares.
September 20, 2024
The Slow Bus To Southie: Boston Will Abandon Frequently-Blocked Seaport Bus Lane
The City of Boston will remove a shared bus-and-trucking lane through the Seaport neighborhood after acknowledging that the design, which was frequently blocked by cars, failed to deliver measurable benefits to bus riders.
September 17, 2024
Boston Will Start Building Dartmouth Street Protected Bikeway This Fall
Within the next few weeks, the City of Boston will start work on another link in its growing network of protected bike routes with a new two-way on-street bikeway on Dartmouth Street in the Back Bay neighborhood.
September 12, 2024
A Driver Killed Two Boston College Hockey Stars – But Media Coverage Is Missing the Bigger Story
“There are big systemic problems in the way that we organize our streets, in the ways that we invest in infrastructure," says Thomas DeVito, national director for Families for Safe Streets. "And it leads to very predictable outcomes.”
September 9, 2024
City of Lynn Wins $9.5 Million Grant For Traffic-Calming Safety Improvements
The U.S. Department of Transportation will give $9.5 million to the City of Lynn to implement hundreds of speed humps, raised crosswalks, curb extensions, and other safety improvements aimed at reducing speeds on high-risk streets across the city.
September 6, 2024
Eyes On the Street: Somerville Fits In Some New Bus, Bike Infrastructure Near Union Square
This summer, the City of Somerville is re-building Washington Street, a key bus and bike route west of Union Square.
September 2, 2024
Boston Will Build Another New Curb-Protected Bike Lane On Harrison Ave. Next Year
The City of Boston will rebuild a short segment of Harrison Avenue in the South End to narrow the roadway and add protected bike lanes, in a design similar to its recently-completed Tremont Street road diet.
August 29, 2024
Travel Guide: Biking From the Border to Boston
The Border to Boston trail is a proposed 70-mile route that will eventually connect Seabrook, New Hampshire to downtown Boston via Newburyport, Salem, and Lynn along abandoned railroad rights-of-way.
August 27, 2024
