Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Traffic Calming

A rendering of two new roundabouts overlaid on an aerial image of the intersections of Chandler Street and May Street in Worcester. Two "Y"-shaped intersections where the two streets converge would be converted into a pair of roundabouts, with two wide shared-use pathways around the edges of and between the new roundabouts.

MassDOT Plans Two New Roundabouts for Dangerous Worcester Intersection

By Grecia White | Jun 21, 2022 | No Comments

Last week, MassDOT shared their plans to convert a dangerous pair of intersections on Worcester’s west side to two roundabouts in an effort to improve safety and provide better pedestrian and bicycle accommodations next to the Worcester State University campus. May Street and Chandler Street are both east-west streets that cross Worcester’s west side and […]

A rendering of the City of Boston's proposed improvements to State Street downtown. The project would widen sidewalks and create a physically protected bike lane from the Rose Kennedy Greenway to Congress Street next to the Old State House. Courtesy of the Boston Public Works Department.

Boston Plans Wider Sidewalks, Protected Bikeway for State Street Downtown

By Christian MilNeil | Jun 13, 2022 | No Comments

During a virtual public hearing in the fall of 2020, city officials said that the project was expected to go under construction in 2021. The project now looks unlikely to get underway until 2023 at the earliest.

Dept. of Conservation and Recreation Chief Engineer Jeff Parenti leans into a metal traffic signal cabinet on Broadway in Arlington to adjust the traffic signal timing of the pedestrian crosswalk while Somerville Director Transportation & Infrastructure Brad Rawson watches over his shoulder.

On Alewife Brook Parkway, Organizing (and Adjusting Traffic Signals) for a Slower, Safer Street

By Christian MilNeil | Jun 2, 2022 | No Comments

The "walk and talk" event on Wednesday evening brought out dozens of neighborhood advocates, including Somerville city councilors, local transportation engineers from the public and private sectors, state Rep. Christine Barber, and state Sen. Patricia Jehlen.

A person rides a bike along the Minuteman path in East Arlington.

Arlington Makes Plans to Connect Minuteman, Mystic River Paths

By Christian MilNeil | Apr 4, 2022 | No Comments

The Town of Arlington is soliciting feedback on a possible new multi-use path that would connect the Alewife Brook Greenway to Arlington Center and the Minuteman Bike Path along the Mystic River waterfront. The proposed path would run about 1.7 miles along the Mystic River and its Mill Brook tributary. Starting from the Minuteman Path […]

Realigned curbs under construction at the intersection of Tremont Street and West Springfield Street in Boston's South End.

Eyes On the Street: Protected Bike Lane Construction in Roxbury and the South End

By Christian MilNeil | Mar 30, 2022 | No Comments

Work is now underway on two street reconstruction projects that will improve bike connections to the Southwest Corridor.

A Google Street View snapshot of the Fellsway in Somerville, showing a snowbank burying the rightmost lane at its intersection with Mystic Avenue.

‘Sneckdown’ At Somerville’s Most Dangerous Intersection Could Become Permanent

By Christian MilNeil | Mar 7, 2022 | No Comments

A lane of the Fellsway/McGrath Highway would be "repurposed to provide enhanced bicycle accommodations" under the I-93 viaduct, according to a MassDOT spokesperson.

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