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Bicycling

Main Street Project Would Widen Sidewalks, Create Protected Bike Lanes In Downtown Northampton

A view of a sidewalk-level bike lane running alongside newly planted sidewalk trees through a neighborhood of historic brick buildings. In the distance a downtown Boston skyscraper is visible.

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Advocacy Opportunities

Buses Get Pushed to the Side in Boston’s Latest Design for Summer Street

A bike rider rides along a flexpost-protected bike lane next to a sidewalk cafe on one side and a line of cars waiting in traffic on the other side of the bus lane, on the left edge of the photo.

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Judge Dismisses Suit Against Cambridge’s Cycling Safety Ordinance

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Somerville Budget Plan Endorses Protected Bike Lanes for Highland Ave.

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Changes Coming to Jamaica Plain’s Arborway Parkway

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.

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

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.

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Boston Planning New Bikeways, Widened Sidewalks for Fort Point

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.

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

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.

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Cambridge to Upgrade Hampshire Street Bike Lanes in 2023

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.

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Transit

MassDOT Calls Harvard Bridge Road Diet ‘Extremely Effective,’ Says Changes Will Become Permanent This Fall

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