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Christian MilNeil

A crowd of people on bikes rides down an empty four-lane highway. On the left side of the roadway are large trees and multi-story brick buildings; on the right is the Charles River with the Boston skyline in the distance.

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Street Design

DCR Will Start Tearing Out Pavement for Memorial Drive Narrowing Project In 2025

Signs alongside a roadway read "Hammond Pond Parkway – Massachusetts Dept. of Conservation and Recreation" and "Hammond Pond Parkway Improvement Contract No. P23-3501-C3A Newton MA" next to some orange construction cones and freshly-laid asphalt and stacks of granite curbing.

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Eyes On the Street: State Conservation Agency Converts Asphalt to Parkland In Newton

A map of the Northampton Bikeway in the northwest of the City of Northampton, along with a parallel detour route along N. Main and Main Street in the west, near the village of Florence; Locust Street in the center, and Prospect St. in the east, near downtown Northampton (which is in the lower right corner of the map)

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Trails

Northampton Bikeway to Close This November For Repair Work

A person on a bike rides along a single-track dirt path through some mown grass through a forest. The trail runs between two rows of utility poles and wires that stretch towards a substation on the horizon.

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Travel guides

Travel Guide: Biking From the Border to Boston

A rendering of a complex cloverleaf intersection over a four-lane highway lined with parking lots and strip malls. The interchange features three bridges over the highway, two for motor vehicles and a smaller middle bridge for bikes and pedestrians, with intersections on either side.

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Highways

MassDOT Approves New Route 9 Highway Interchange In Natick, at a Price That’s 40 Percent Over Budget

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MassDOT Officially Breaks Ground On Northern Strand Extension Through Downtown Lynn

A trail though leafy woods leads to a tunnel under a roadway in the middle distance. Three signs stacked vertically on a signpost next to the trail in the foreground read "End / Bruce Freeman Rail Trail / Ahead"

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MassTrails Program Grants $12 Million for 65 Trail Projects Statewide

A purple-and-silver MBTA commuter rail diesel train crosses the North Station drawbridge over the Charles River with the high-rises of downtown Boston in the background.

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Will A New Rail Bridge Across the Charles Include a Long-Promised Walkway to North Station?

A gravel path under construction behind a metal fence next to a grassy lawn

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Eyes On the Street: ‘Clippership Connector’ Comes Together in Downtown Medford

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Mystic River Bridge Design, Timeline Still Shrouded In Mystery, Globe Confirms