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Christian MilNeil

Two pedestrians cross a crosswalk in a wide street with a potholed concrete median. The street is lined with new mid-rise buildings, about 8 to 10 stories tall.

HarrisonAvenueBeforeConstructionAugust2024

Street Design

Boston Will Build Another New Curb-Protected Bike Lane On Harrison Ave. Next Year

A person in a teal dress shirt rides through a crosswalk on a green bike lane that lies between a row of parked cars in the middle of the street and a busy sidewalk on the left.

Boylston Street at Ring Road

Bicycling

Eyes On the Street: the New Boylston Street Bike Lane In Back Bay

A pedestrian steps into a street next to a full bike rack. In the foreground, a flyer attached to a sign post announces an upcoming paving project to add new bike lanes to the street.

MilkStreetBikeLanePavingJuly_17_2024

Protected bike lanes

Boston Breaks Ground On New Milk Street Bikeway Downtown

A view of the new Columbus Ave. bus lanes and the new bus platforms at Walnut Avenue.

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Bus lanes

USDOT Grants $22 Million for Dedicated Busway Between Sullivan Square and Everett

A map of Somerville highlighting its "priority bike network" from the city's bike plan. The map highlights busier streets that would receive separated bike lanes – like Broadway and Somerville Ave. – in green, and quieter neighborhood streets that would receive traffic calming treatments to serve as shared bike routes in blue.

SomervilleBikePlanPriorityNetworkMap

Vision Zero

New Somerville Safe Streets Ordinance Mandates 30-Mile Protected Bike Lane Network By 2030

A person riding a bike turns onto a residential street lined with 3- and 4-story apartment buildings and trees blossoming with spring flowers. Along the left edge of the street is a narrower bike lane paved with fresh asphalt and separated from the car lanes with a granite curb.

SomervilleSummerStreetPBLMay-1-2024

Environment

Eyes On the Street: Somerville’s New Garden-Protected Bike Lane

A city street lined with historic multi-story brick rowhouse buildings with the glass Hancock Tower skyscraper rising above them in the background. In the foreground is an intersection with a traffic light turning yellow and a street sign that says "Appleton Street". A woman in a puffy winter coat is crossing the street. On the right is a newly-painted protected bike lane running between the sidewalk and a row of parked cars.

Berkeley and Appleton November 2023

Transit and Bike Riders Will Get More Space On Back Bay Streets This Year

New separated bike lanes on Massachusetts Avenue in front of Cambridge City Hall.

Mass. Ave. at Cambridge City Hall

Elections and Politics

After Marathon Meeting, Cambridge City Council Narrowly Votes to Delay Street Safety Projects

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Meghan Volcy

A map of the Alewife/Danehy Park area of Cambridge highlighting new off-street bike and pedestrian trail projects in the works. One dotted line represents a path along the north side of the MBTA Fitchburg Line, linking Alewife Stn. in the NW (upper left) to Sherman St. in the east (lower right) alongside several labelled apartment towers, including the Jefferson Park public housing. A second green dashed line represents a new path that would connect Danehy Park to New Street and Concord Avenue (at the bottom edge of the map). Solid green lines near the upper half of the map indicate existing paths in the Minuteman Bikeway and Mass. Central Rail Trail networks.

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Accessibility

City of Cambridge Projects Aim to Reconnect Communities Around Alewife Station

A sidewalk under construction with as asphalt bike path running down the middle. In the distance a new high-rise building rises behind a construction fence.

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Eyes On the Street: In Back Bay, A New Transit Plaza Takes Shape Over the Turnpike