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MassDOT Shares Early Concepts for Taming Wellington Circle
Local stakeholders in an advisory working group expressed a desire to see less asphalt and fewer lanes through the intersections in MassDOT's proposed designs.
January 6, 2022
Meet the New Chief: StreetsblogMASS Interviews Jascha Franklin-Hodge
"There’s a lot of traffic engineering that’s very data-driven, but it’s often data-driven in ways that are focused on vehicular movements and speeds and capacity... And sometimes that comes at the expense of asking, ‘What’s it like for a person who’s walking to the bus, and waiting on the corner for that bus?’ We don’t have metrics for that."
December 22, 2021
Boston’s ‘What the Tech’ Series Offers A Field Guide to the Gadgets on Our Streets
"Whether they’re feeling positively or negatively about it, the main point is to get more people talking about the use of technology in the public realm."
December 20, 2021
Inventories Take Stock of Growing Access to Bluebikes, Safer Bike Routes
Thanks to system expansions into more diverse neighborhoods, by 2021, non-white residents living in Bluebikes communities are slightly more likely to live near a bikesharing station than white residents.
December 6, 2021
Mass. Ave. Bridge Users Praise Improved Bike Lanes: ‘I Hope We See More of This’
MassDOT plans to leave the cones in place over the winter and evaluate the new layout for permanent implementation next year after analyzing its effects on user safety, bike traffic, car traffic, and bus speeds on the MBTA’s Route 1.
November 24, 2021
MassDOT Makes Plans to Extend Northern Strand Through Downtown Lynn
The project would build new two-way, curb-separated bike lanes along the south side of the Market Square roundabout (pictured above), the Lynn Common, and Market Street.
November 22, 2021
City of Boston, MBTA Win Funds to Transform Blue Hill Avenue
City officials have estimated that the project would benefit roughly 20,000 bus riders in Dorchester and Mattapan, reduce their collective commuting times by 800 hours every day, and, with less time wasted in traffic, allow the T to make over 100 additional daily trips on existing routes using the same number of buses and drivers.
November 18, 2021
Guest Column: How Mayor Michelle Wu Can Put Racial Equity in the Fast Lane
The Mayor doesn’t control the MBTA, but she can make Boston’s transit system more equitable from day one.
November 17, 2021
Travel Guide: Wayland’s Aqueducts and the New Cochituate Rail Trail
I initially stumbled on the Cochituate Rail Trail in Framingham by chance last year. Since then, two substantial bridges over major roadways were craned in, and earlier this fall, the trail’s new extension into Natick Center officially opened to the public.
Juliana Cherston
November 6, 2021
A Roundup of Holdups
Updates on bus lanes in Brookline, the Bruce Freeman bridge in Concord, Orange Line slow zones, and more.
November 5, 2021
