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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

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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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Street Design

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

A sunset view down a mostly-empty, wide four-lane street lined with small businesses and parked cars.

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Vision Zero

Mayor Wu Won’t Wait: City Will Implement Centre Street Safety Improvements This Fall

An evening scene on a wide four-lane street that's lined with one-story commercial buildings. In the foreground, a person walks across the street at a traffic light as another person rides a bike in the opposite direction. A few cars' headlights are visible in the background.

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Wu Administration Revives Centre Street Safety Project For West Roxbury

Orange construction barrels surround a newly-constructed median island surrounded by parked cars on the left and moving vehicles to the right. Two pedestrians are stepping off the island to cross the street, which is lined with multi-story apartment buildings. In the distance on the horizon are visible the Prudential Center and other skyscrapers in Back Bay.

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Eyes On the Street: Some Curb Appeal In Dorchester and the South End

A freshly-paved street with new bicycle lane markings. On the other side of the street a woman on a bicycle rides past a bus stop. Beyond the bus stop are several large trees budding with new leaves.

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Eyes On the Street: New Protected Bike Lanes In Jamaica Plain

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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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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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