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DCR Announces Scaled-Back Memorial Drive Road Diet for 2024
The latest proposal, as described in the ENF, would reconstruct a 0.8-mile length of Memorial Drive and its multi-use pathways between the Eliot Bridge and the Anderson Bridge (JFK Street).
January 18, 2022
Inventories Take Stock of Growing Access to Bluebikes, Safer Bike Routes
Thanks to system expansions into more diverse neighborhoods, by 2021, non-white residents living in Bluebikes communities are slightly more likely to live near a bikesharing station than white residents.
December 6, 2021
MassDOT Makes Plans to Extend Northern Strand Through Downtown Lynn
The project would build new two-way, curb-separated bike lanes along the south side of the Market Square roundabout (pictured above), the Lynn Common, and Market Street.
November 22, 2021
Travel Guide: Wayland’s Aqueducts and the New Cochituate Rail Trail
I initially stumbled on the Cochituate Rail Trail in Framingham by chance last year. Since then, two substantial bridges over major roadways were craned in, and earlier this fall, the trail’s new extension into Natick Center officially opened to the public.
Juliana Cherston
November 6, 2021
A Roundup of Holdups
Updates on bus lanes in Brookline, the Bruce Freeman bridge in Concord, Orange Line slow zones, and more.
November 5, 2021
Eyes On the Trails: More Mystic River Greenways In the Works
Two trail segments that are nearing completion in Everett, Boston, and Somerville will provide crucial links to the proposed Mystic River bike and pedestrian bridge.
October 22, 2021
Baker Admin Commits Funding for Proposed Mystic Greenway Bridge
“We are going to fund this project and make it happen,” said the Governor at a press conference on the shore of the Mystic River on Friday afternoon.
October 22, 2021
Photos: DCR’s Pedestrian Bridges Are Crumbling Away
StreetsblogMASS surveyed several other pedestrian bridges over other DCR roadways and found extensive deferred maintenance issues on many of those structures as well.
September 16, 2021
Eyes on the Street: New Trail, Bike Projects Connect the Fenway
Currently in the works: a new off-street, multi-use pathway to the Fenway Green Line stop, new flexpost-protected bike lanes on Boylston Street, and a refurbished Carlton Street footbridge to Brookline.
September 2, 2021
Eyes On the Street: Flexpost Carnage On the South Bay Harbor Trail
The "phase one" segment currently under construction extends the existing shared-use path that exists along the Fort Point channel southward to Albany Street at the edge of the South End.
July 30, 2021
