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Two people sit on a wide granite bench with wood slats on the benchtop beneath a canopy of cantilivered steel blades on an under-construction bridge. To the left water is visible beyond a chain-link fence.

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Walking

Eyes On the Street: An Upgraded Freedom Trail Across the New North Washington Street Bridge

A rendering of a street with three moving vehicle lanes in the middle, a parking lane on the left curb, and a two-way bike path along the right curb. In the middle distance is a crosswalk and a white-and-yellow MBTA bus is approaching in the opposite lane.

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City of Newton Plans Protected Bike Lanes, Road Diet For Washington Street

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A man rides a Bluebike towards the camera in a separated bike lane that runs between the sidewalk (left) and a row of parked cars (center). A row of flexible-post bollards in the foreground divides the bike lane from moving traffic. The street is lined with multi-story buildings.

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Eyes On the Street: Back Bay’s New Bikeways

A wide four-lane city street under a blue sky. On the right edge of the photo is a historic five-story brick apartment building with bay windows. On the left edge is a BP gas station. The wide roadway through the center of the photo only has a handful of cars on it, a few of which are parked at the curbside.

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Worcester to Tame One of Its Most Dangerous Streets With Narrower Roadway, Protected Bike Lanes

A photograph of a bridge with a bike lane at left, and a man riding a bike toward the camera, and two car lanes to the right. A column of white flexible-post bollards with a handful of orange construction cones occupies the buffer zone between the bike lane and the car lanes. In the distance, at the end of the bridge, are some trees and the tall buildings of the Boston skyline.

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Eyes On the Street: Posts Replace Cones on Mass. Ave. Bridge

People on bikes navigate their way through the newly-reconfigured Powder House Circle in Somerville.

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Somerville Voters Approve Bike Lanes, Bus Stop Improvements In Participatory Budget

A paved bike path runs alongside a two-lane road (right) and a sidewalk (left) under some trees. In the middle distance in the upper-left corner is a brick school building.

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Eyes On the Street: Dutch-Style Infrastructure In the Suburbs of Springfield

A photo-illustration rendering shows families with strollers on the sidewalk on the left, a parent and child riding bikes through a crosswalk in a bike lane next to a tan-painted island, and an MBTA bus in the distance.

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City of Cambridge Begins Hampshire Street Protected Bike Lane Installation

An evening city street scene on Boylston Street near Copley Square. On the left side of the photo is a busy sidewalk and a Chick-Fil-A restaurant. On the street in front of the restaurant, four cars, three of them double-parked, occupy the multiple-lane street; a food delivery driver is stepping out of one of the cars while a second car is attempting to drive between the others to fit in closer to the curb.

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Back Bay NIMBYs Try A Gruesome New Threat Against Protected Bike Lanes: ‘Someone Will Die’

Tremont Street in the South End. In the right foreground is a newly-installed median island paved in bricks and ringed by a granite curb and topped with an orange construction barrel. In the background a pedestrian crosses the street among more construction barrels. On the right, a bicycle rider passes in the opposite lane. Historic brick rowhomes line both sides of the street.

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Tremont Street Safety Project Isn’t Complete, But Crashes Are Already Plummeting