Traffic Calming
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City Hall Seeks Outside Help to Plan Expanded Safe Streets Network
The City of Boston is currently evaluating proposals from consulting firms to accelerate safety and non-motorized transportation improvements on several corridors, including projects to link the Southwest Corridor into downtown Boston, safety improvements on Massachusetts Avenue in Dorchester, and an eastward extension of the recent improvements on Commonwealth Avenue through the Boston University campus.
September 10, 2019
Wellfleet Debates Details Over Northern Extension of Cape Cod Rail Trail
The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is moving forward with plans to extend the Cape Cod Rail Trail two miles northward into the town of Wellfleet, but the proposed trailhead on Route 6, the main highway through the outer Cape, is stirring up safety concerns about the busy highway that runs through Wellfleet's town center.
September 9, 2019
Eyes On the Street: Chinatown’s New Phillips Square Plaza
A little-used turning lane on Harrison Street in Chinatown is on the verge of being reclaimed as public space as the city puts the finishing touches on a new plaza in Phillips Square.
August 29, 2019
Reconstruction of High-Crash Melnea Cass Boulevard Delayed to 2020
Construction of a long-planned safety project for the Melnea Cass Boulevard in Roxbury has been delayed until 2020, according to MassDOT, and won't be complete until 2024.
August 19, 2019
Somerville Placates Parkers, But Emphasizes that Powder House is Still A Work in Progress
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.
August 1, 2019
In Powder House Project, Parking Blurs Somerville’s ‘Vision Zero’
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.
July 31, 2019
City Proposes Road Diet, Protected Bike Lanes for West Roxbury’s Centre Street
City staff propose taking away a car lane, shortening pedestrian crossings and adding protected bike lanes to West Roxbury's main street.
June 24, 2019
Boston Kicks Off Redesign Process for West Roxbury’s Centre Street
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.
June 17, 2019
Developers Pitch Major Reconfiguration of Kenmore Square
"The result is a Kenmore Square whose heart is a public space rather than a busy roadway," says the proposal's designer.
June 14, 2019
Brookline Advocates Aim to Restore Olmsted’s Vision On Beacon Street
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.
May 28, 2019
