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Christian MilNeil

Google Street View imagery of Main Street in Reading shows the street before (from 2019) and after (from 2020) a road diet that reduced the number of vehicle lanes on the roadway. Images courtesy of Google.

Reading2020RoadDiet_BeforeVsAfter

Street Design

A Reading Road Diet Moves From Pilot to Permanent

On-street dining in Hanover Street in the North End, May 2021

Streetsfilms Features the North End’s Outdoor Dining Streets Transformations

Wellington Circle in Medford

Accessibility

What Do We Do About Wellington?

Overview map of sidewalk and crosswalk improvements near the junction of Routes 28 and 38 in Somerville

Equity

Advocacy Works: MassDOT Re-Prioritizes Basic Safety Upgrades For Somerville

25% design plans for the Rutherford Avenue corridor, showing the reconfigured Sullivan Square. The current traffic circle would be replaced with a grid of streets, new developable lots, and an expansion of the Ryan Playground. Courtesy of MassDOT and the City of Boston.

Sullivan Square plans from the City of Boston’s Rutherford Ave. redesign

Bicycling

Boston, MassDOT Reveal Plans to Reconfigure Sullivan Square By 2026

Walking from one side of McGrath Highway to the other along Mystic Avenue requires pedestrians to cross multiple highway ramps and and along a "sidewalk" in the middle of the highway.

McGrath Highway Crosswalk

Bowing to Pressure, MassDOT Will Fast-Track Traffic Calming in Somerville’s ‘Corridor of Death’

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Bike on Massachusetts Ave. in Arlington

Arlington Test-Drives Safer Intersection Designs At Mass. Ave. and Appleton

Advocates and elected officials gathered at an abandoned gas station on May 26, 2021 to memorialize victims of traffic violence in the area and demand immediate safety improvements to nearby roadways, including Mystic Ave. and the McGrath Highway.

Traffic Calming