Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Protected bike lanes

A high level overview showing the scope of DCR’s Arborway Parkways Improvement Project in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood from Jamaica Pond (upper left corner) to Kelley Circle, Murray Circle (middle) and continuing alongside the Arnold Arboretum just past Forest Hills Road.

Changes Coming to Jamaica Plain’s Arborway Parkway

By Grecia White | Dec 30, 2022 | No Comments

In the Jamaica Plain neighborhood, the ongoing redesign project for the Arborway Parkway continues advancing closer to the final design phase with the goal of improving safety and accessibility for all corridor users including bicyclists and pedestrians. Serving as one of the links connecting a string of parks along Boston's Emerald Necklace, the Arborway extends […]

A pedestrian crosses Tremont Street in a new crosswalk. In the foreground is a newly-installed median island, about the size of a parked car, that is paved in bricks and ringed by a granite curb. To its left are two lanes for two-way car traffic; to its right is an asphalt-paved bike lane, and a second curb at the right edge of the photo delineates the street's sidewalk. A smaller granite curb island is located at the far side of the crosswalk, and two other pairs of islands in a similar configuration protect the crosswalk on the opposite side of the intersection. Historic brick rowhomes line both sides of the street. In the distance is a church steeple.

Eyes On the Street: Portions of New Tremont St. Protected Bike Lane Are Ready to Ride

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 22, 2022 | No Comments

In the past few weeks, new striping has gone down on several blocks in the western end of the project area, delineating space for new protected bike lanes.

An animated GIF showing Congress Street in Fort Point as it is today – a wide two-lane street with on-street parking on both sides – alongside a rendering of how the street will look after a reconstruction project is finished, with protected bike lanes and widened sidewalks.

Boston Planning New Bikeways, Widened Sidewalks for Fort Point

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 29, 2022 | No Comments

Several construction projects scheduled to begin construction in the coming year in Boston's Fort Point neighborhood will widen sidewalks and connect the neighborhood's emerging network of protected bike lanes.

A bridge under construction. In the foreground are four piers, and behind them, large steel beams sit on top of another set of piers. The top of the cable-stayed Zakim Bridge is visible in the background.

Could North Washington Bridge Delays Create Space for a Permanent Busway to Charlestown?

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 14, 2022 | No Comments

"We’ve been living with construction for years with only three lanes on a temporary bridge, so why add back another car lane when we have this opportunity?"

Two people ride bikes along new bike lanes, separated from the car lanes by rows of white flexible-post bollards, on Massachusetts Avenue near Dana Street in Cambridge.

Cambridge to Upgrade Hampshire Street Bike Lanes in 2023

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 10, 2022 | No Comments

During rush hours, people riding on bikes outnumber people riding in private cars on Hampshire Street, but currently, the vast majority of the street's public space is dedicated to motor vehicles.

A row of cones delineates a bike lane on the Mass. Ave. bridge. A bicycle rider coasts by on one side of the cones while a car drives by to the left. On the horizon are the skyscrapers of the Back Bay neighborhood reflecting the late-afternoon sunlight.

MassDOT Calls Harvard Bridge Road Diet 'Extremely Effective,' Will Make Changes Permanent This Fall

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 24, 2022 | No Comments

MassDOT will re-stripe lanes and add flexible-post bollards to make the changes permanent later this fall.

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