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Cambridge Lags In Delivering Safer Streets for Physical Distancing
It's been over a month since the Cambridge City Council endorsed a policy order to restrict car traffic on Memorial Drive and other neighborhood streets in order to give residents more space to physically distance on city streets, and the city's administration has still not taken any action, even as peers in surrounding cities have successfully implemented their own programs.
May 27, 2020
Plans for Boston’s ‘Healthy Streets’ Initiative Expected Later This Week
On Tuesday, the City of Boston briefly published a new website with tentative plans for its "healthy streets" initiative, which would make tactical changes to city streets to provide more room for safe physical distancing among pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit riders.
May 26, 2020
Check Out Somerville’s Citywide ‘COVID-19 Mobility Strategy’
The City of Somerville has announced a citywide mobility strategy to provide safer walking and biking routes with more room for physical distancing as "stay at home" orders ease this spring and summer.
May 24, 2020
Boston Outlines Plans for Expanded Sidewalks, Expedited Bike Projects for Pandemic Recovery
City of Boston staff are proposing to expand pedestrian space into on-street parking areas, build pop-up bike lanes, expand waiting areas at busy bus stops, and close some residential streets to through traffic in a wide-ranging strategy to support car-free mobility in a new era of physical distancing.
May 12, 2020
MassDOT Tries Out Traffic Calming on Reading’s Main Street
MassDOT is test-driving a narrower road layout – and new online public engagement tools – in a suburb north of Boston.
May 11, 2020
Will Northern Ave. Bridge Project Use Public Funds to Benefit Private Shuttles?
The City of Boston will spend millions of dollars more on a larger design that allows private commuter shuttles on the new Northern Avenue Bridge across the Fort Point Channel, in spite of what project managers had previously characterized as "overwhelming" public support for a cheaper bridge designed for bikes and pedestrians.
May 6, 2020
Boston Council to Host Hearing on Pandemic Street Safety Improvements
"This is very much about safeguarding everyone's health in the immediate term. We are finding it impossible to practice distancing on narrow sidewalks," said Councilor Michelle Wu.
April 28, 2020
South Coast Bikeway Would Create 60-Mile Path From Cape Cod to Providence
After decades of planning, a proposed 60-mile bike trail stretching from the Cape Cod canal to Providence, Rhode Island is starting to take shape with help from the South Coast Bike Alliance.
April 20, 2020
In Turnaround, Cambridge Council Endorses Car-Free Memorial Drive
On Monday night, the Cambridge City Council voted to endorse the closure of Memorial Drive to car traffic for the duration of the stay-at-home order associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 14, 2020