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Christian MilNeil

A city street and traffic signal. The street features two bike lanes along each curb on either side of the street with hatched lines to buffer the bike lane from moving car traffic in the middle of the street. A man pushes a stroller with two children on the sidewalk next to the street.

NBeaconStreet_10.11.2024

Bicycling

Eyes On the Street: Better Bike Lanes For Allston and Brighton

A map of the Porter Sq. area in Cambridge and Somerville. The city line is shown as a dotted line running diagonally from upper left to lower right along Elm and Beacon Streets. T stations are shown at Davis Sq (upper left) and Porter (center) and the Somerville Community Path is a green line near the top edge of the map. The map highlights Elm St, Somerville Ave, and Beacon St, which meet at acute angles just east of Porter Square.

Elm-Beacon Connector locator map v2

Protected bike lanes

Somerville To Start Implementing New Bike Plan With Connections Near Porter Square

A rendering of a street with a two-way protected bike way on the other side. In the distance are some trees and beyond that is the Hancock Tower skyscraper.

DartmouthStreetRenderingNearCommAve

Boston Will Start Building Dartmouth Street Protected Bikeway This Fall

A new sidewalk-level bike lane under construction adjacent to a two-lane city street. Cones and construction barrels litter the bike lane. In the foreground is a raised crosswalk next to a traffic signal.

Argenziano School crosswalk

Street Design

Eyes On the Street: Somerville Fits In Some New Bus, Bike Infrastructure Near Union Square

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

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

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

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.

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Environment

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