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A highway construction site. New granite curbs have been installed in the middle of an older roadway in the center of the photo, with a packed gravel path to the right, and two car lanes to the left. An inset at lower left shows what the same scene looked like before construction, when the same view showed a wider roadway next to a dirt track on the side of the road.

New curb on Birmingham Pkwy approaching Market St intersection 08.21.2025 _ with before inset

Trails

Eyes On the Street: Depaving Leo Birmingham Park

Pedestrians fill a narrow street lined with two-and three-story retail buildings. There's a narrow brick sidewalk on the right edge of the street.

Commercial Street downtown Provincetown July 2024

Vision Zero

Provincetown Pilots New Barriers to Protect Pedestrians On Commercial St.

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Meghan Volcy

An elevation map of Vineyard Haven waterfront areas with color shading from red (lowest elevation) to green (highest elevation). Around Five Corners is in the yellow to orange range, showing low elevation and flood vulnerability.

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Street Design

MassDOT and the Town of Tisbury Make Plans to Address Climate Change, Crashes, and Connectivity on Martha’s Vineyard

A garden full of grasses and pink coneflowers lines the curb of a city street through a residential neighborhood. In the foreground, on the near side of the garden, is a sidewalk with a newly-planted tree next to an asphalt-paved bike lane. On the far side of the garden, a white SUV travels on the street. Behind the car is a red-painted crosswalk marked with two diamond street signs.

Summer Street garden-protected bike lane

Eyes On the Street: Somerville Builds Gardens In the Street to Improve Safety While Also Reducing Water Pollution

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.

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Bicycling

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

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

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

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

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

Stop-Arm-School-Bus

Thousands of Drivers Caught On Camera Passing Stopped School Buses In Peabody

Dan Albert is the author of Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless, the town of Marblehead MBTA Advisory Board representative, and a member of the Metropolitan Planning Organization&#8217;s Vision Zero Task Force.

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A view downhill down a city street lined with modest 2-3 story wooden buildings. A street sign in the middle distance says "Montrose" under a "one way" sign pointing left. Further on, four bright yellow diamond signs mark a crosswalk and bike trail crossing. The crossing is flanked with two speed humps. There is no traffic on the street, only a few parked cars.

SycamoreStreetSomervilleSpeedHumpsMay.01.2024

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Can’t-Do Attitudes Block Street Safety In Marblehead

A rendering of a wide multi-lane intersection with a city skyline in the distance and a bike path along the sidewalk on the left edge of the primary street.

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Highways

Somerville’s ‘Grounding McGrath’ Plan Has A New Look, With Fewer Lanes

Traffic Calming