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Eyes On the Street: An Upgraded Freedom Trail Across the New North Washington Street Bridge
After several years' worth of delay, the new North Washington Street Bridge between the North End and Charlestown partially opened to the general public earlier this month, while work continues on the western (upstream) portion of the new bridge.
December 18, 2023
City of Newton Plans Protected Bike Lanes, Road Diet For Washington Street
The City of Newton is soliciting feedback for the design of new protected bike lanes and other traffic-calming safety improvements along a 0.75-mile stretch of Washington Street between West Newton and Newtonville.Washington Street is currently a four-lane roadway that runs alongside the Worcester Line regional rail tracks and the Massachusetts Turnpike. Long stretches of Washington Street lack sidewalks along its southern curb, where there is a well-worn track in the dirt between the street and the railroad embankment.
December 15, 2023
Eyes On the Street: Back Bay’s New Bikeways
Over the past week, the City of Boston has been re-striping several newly-paved streets in the South End and Back Bay to implement new protected bike lanes on parts of Berkeley Street and Columbus Avenue (pictured above).
November 20, 2023
Worcester to Tame One of Its Most Dangerous Streets With Narrower Roadway, Protected Bike Lanes
The City of Worcester last week held a public hearing for a proposed reconstruction of Chandler Street, one of the city's most dangerous roadways, that would narrow the roadway to tame traffic and create space for physically-protected, sidewalk-level bike lanes.
November 20, 2023
Eyes On the Street: Posts Replace Cones on Mass. Ave. Bridge
It's been almost two years since MassDOT widened the busy bike lanes on the Harvard Bridge (also known as the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge) with orange construction cones.
October 26, 2023
Somerville Voters Approve Bike Lanes, Bus Stop Improvements In Participatory Budget
Earlier this week, Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne announced that five projects would receive nearly $1 million in city funding in the City of Somerville’s first-ever Participatory Budgeting process.
October 26, 2023
Eyes On the Street: Dutch-Style Infrastructure In the Suburbs of Springfield
While we were in Westfield last week to check out the new Columbia Greenway, we also visited nearby Agawam, a suburb of Springfield, to check out some new Dutch-style infrastructure that MassDOT recently built there.
September 11, 2023
City of Cambridge Begins Hampshire Street Protected Bike Lane Installation
The City of Cambridge will repave Hampshire Street between Inman and Kendall Squares this week in preparation for new protected bike lanes through of the region's busiest bike-commuting corridors.
August 1, 2023
Back Bay NIMBYs Try A Gruesome New Threat Against Protected Bike Lanes: ‘Someone Will Die’
As part of Mayor Wu's proposed expansion of the citywide protected bike lane network, the City of Boston is planning a new parking-protected bike lanes on Berkeley and Boyslton Streets through the Back Bay neighborhood.
June 29, 2023
Tremont Street Safety Project Isn’t Complete, But Crashes Are Already Plummeting
There has been a dramatic reduction in serious crashes along Tremont Street through the South End this year as a construction project installs new protected bike lanes between Massachusetts Avenue and Herald Street.
June 28, 2023
