Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Traffic Calming

Powder House Boulevard at the southern edge of the Tufts University campus in Somerville, pictured in May 2019.

Parking Trumps Bike Lanes on Powder House... for Now

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 1, 2019

In a more conciliatory public meeting Wednesday night, city officials raised the possibility of installing a one-way protected bike lane on Powder House Boulevard in 2020, and emphasized the expected safety benefits of traffic-calming measures that are being installed on the street this summer. While safety advocates and bicyclists in particular have been focused on […]

In Powder House Project, Parking Blurs Somerville’s ‘Vision Zero’

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 31, 2019 | 1 Comment

A community meeting tonight will discuss a recent repaving project on Somerville’s Powder House Boulevard, where a motorist killed a woman in a crosswalk in front of a neighborhood school this February. The project, which improves the boulevard from Alewife Brook Parkway to the southern edge of Tufts University in West Somerville, has pitted safety […]

Centre Street in West Roxbury on the evening of June 20, 2019.

City Proposes Road Diet, Protected Bike Lanes for West Roxbury’s Centre Street

By Christian MilNeil | Jun 24, 2019 | 2 Comments

City staff propose taking away a car lane, shortening pedestrian crossings and adding protected bike lanes to West Roxbury's main street.

A group photograph of West Roxbury neighbors setting out on a safety audit of Centre Street on May 11, 2019. Courtesy of West Roxbury Walks.

Boston Kicks Off Redesign Process for West Roxbury’s Centre Street

By Christian MilNeil | Jun 17, 2019 | 1 Comment

West Roxbury Main Streets, the neighborhood business organization, has been asking the city for traffic calming improvements since 2016, when a survey identified Centre Street's pedestrian-hostile design as a major barrier to foot traffic.

An architects' rendering of the hotel and public plaza being proposed for the western edge of Kenmore Square. Rendering by Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architects, courtesy of BPDA.

Developers Pitch Major Reconfiguration of Kenmore Square

By Christian MilNeil | Jun 14, 2019 | 4 Comments

"The result is a Kenmore Square whose heart is a public space rather than a busy roadway," says the proposal's designer.

Friends of the Beacon Street Bridle Path organizers Elena Huisman and Jules Milner-Brage stand in the former bridle path's right-of-way near Coolidge Corner in Brookline on Wednesday, May 22, 2019.

Brookline Advocates Aim to Restore Olmsted’s Vision On Beacon Street

By Christian MilNeil | May 28, 2019

Earlier this month, on a beautiful Saturday morning, a group of Brookline neighbors who have been organizing as the “Friends of the Beacon Street Bridleway” laid a strip of tape along the pavement and invited people to experience, for the first time in decades, a car-free “bridle path” in the middle of Beacon Street. The […]

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