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Eyes On the Street: The New American Legion Bikeway
This week, Boston Transportation Department crews are busy painting a new roadway layout on American Legion Highway that will add a new 2-mile-long link in Boston's growing network of protected bike lanes.
October 23, 2020
Newton Scrubs A Bike Lane From Washington Street, But Others Are In the Works
In the face of vocal opposition, City of Newton officials are removing a short-lived bike lane that was recently painted on Washington Street between West Newton and Newtonville, but the city's safe streets advocates are hoping that a better, more protected version could be installed next year, when the city is expected to pilot a road diet on the same street.
October 18, 2020
Somerville Plans New Bus, Bike Lanes on Washington Street
The new roadway layout would benefit bike and bus riders traveling between Harvard and Union Squares.
October 7, 2020
Cambridge City Council Votes to Fast-Track Citywide Protected Bike Lane Network
The new ordinance aims to accelerate the construction of the city's protected bike lane network by encouraging the use of "quick-build" projects, and adds a May 1, 2026 deadline for building protected bike lanes on over 20 miles of city streets.
October 5, 2020
Eyes On the Street: A New Network of Protected Bikeways Around Harvard Square
New protected bike lanes are being implemented on Mass. Ave., Brattle Street, the Quincy-Bow-DeWolfe corridor, and Mt. Auburn Street.
October 5, 2020
City of Cambridge Pitches an Expanded Bike Network Plan
The updated plan would add several key streets to the city's planned network of protected bikeways and prioritize certain projects for "quick-build" bike infrastructure improvements.
October 2, 2020
A Suburban Strip In Newton and Needham Is Getting a Complete Streets Makeover
Among other improvements, the project will build new protected bike lanes that will create a continuous, 1.8 mile bike route from Needham to Newton Highlands.
October 1, 2020
Guest Column: It’s Time to Build Resilient Streets for Somerville
In cities across the globe emerging from COVID-19, we have consistently seen a slow return to transit, and a quick return (and even growth) in private car travel. We know that pre-COVID-19, fewer than half of Boston area residents drove to work. We also know that if this ratio were to change due to the crisis -- with people mode shifting to single occupancy vehicles - all of our lives would be impacted in ways both significant and menial, and not for the better.
September 22, 2020
DCR Plans to Remove Car Lanes, Add Buffered Bikeways on the Arborway
The state Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has announced plans to replace motor vehicle lanes with wide buffered bike lanes along three roadway sections of the Arborway in Jamaica Plain as part of a suite of short-term safety improvements.
September 21, 2020
Protected Bike Lanes Coming to Wellington Bridge Over the Mystic
The City of Somerville has announced that it will create new protected bike lanes on the Wellington Bridge across the Mystic River this fall, connecting Somerville's fast-growing Assembly Square district with the City of Medford.
September 20, 2020
