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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

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.

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Vision Zero

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

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Meghan Volcy

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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.

Dan Albert

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

A map of the Independence Greenway, which currently exists in two sections in the town of Peabody: the western section extends from the down's western boundary to a park near Interstate 95. The eastern section extends from just east of I-95 to Route 128. A planned extension, shown as a green-dashed line on the map, would extend the eastern portion a little over a mile into the town's center. Another future project, shown as a red-dashed line, would connect the eastern and western segments under an underpass of Interstate 95, and also connect to the Danvers Rail Trail, which extends northward through the town of Danvers.

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Trails

MassDOT Plans to Bridge A Major Barrier In Border-to-Boston Trail Network

A rendering of a street with three moving vehicle lanes in the middle, a parking lane on the left curb, and a two-way bike path along the right curb. In the middle distance is a crosswalk and a white-and-yellow MBTA bus is approaching in the opposite lane.

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City of Newton Plans Protected Bike Lanes, Road Diet For Washington Street

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DCR Breaks Ground On Major Road Diet in Newton

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Worcester to Tame One of Its Most Dangerous Streets With Narrower Roadway, Protected Bike Lanes

A bike lane, marked by two parallel white lines, with a row of flexible-post bollards in between the two white lines. In the foreground is a speed hump marked with white triangles. A row of cars is parked on the left side of the street. The Lamartine Street traffic signal is visible in the distance.

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Bicycling

Eyes On the Street: Safer Side Streets In Jamaica Plain

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