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New Trails We Can Look Forward to in Eastern Mass. in 2022

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DCR Announces Scaled-Back Memorial Drive Road Diet for 2024

Bluebike station locations in 2010, 2016, and 2021. When the system launched a decade ago, it primarily served higher-income, whiter neighborhoods in central Boston. However, thanks to new stations, non-white and lower-income residents of these cities and towns now enjoy more equitable levels of access to the bikesharing network.

Bluebike Station growth since 2010

Bicycling

Inventories Take Stock of Growing Access to Bluebikes, Safer Bike Routes

Rendering of the proposed Northern Strand on-street bikeway on South Common Street, approaching Market Street, in downtown Lynn.

Rendering Northern Strand South Common at Market

MassDOT Makes Plans to Extend Northern Strand Through Downtown Lynn

The new section of the Cochituate Rail Trail in Natick opened earlier this year, and connects the village of Saxonville in Framingham to Natick Center.

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Travel Guide: Wayland’s Aqueducts and the New Cochituate Rail Trail

Protected bike lane on Washington St in Brookline

A Roundup of Holdups

The Northern Strand Trail extension in Everett, looking south towards the Encore Casino and the Mystic River

Eyes On the Trails: More Mystic River Greenways In the Works

An architect's rendering shows two bridges crossing a river. The illustration of the new bridge, on the right, shows a bridge with large arches swooping over the water. The illustration is superimposed on a photograph that shows an existing, plainer railroad bridge on the right.

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Baker Admin Commits Funding for Proposed Mystic Greenway Bridge

Deterioration of the concrete deck on DCR's Sibler Street pedestrian overpass over Storrow Drive.

Deterioration of the concrete deck on DCR’s Sibler Street pedestrian overpass over Storrow Drive.

Photos: DCR’s Pedestrian Bridges Are Crumbling Away

The entrance to the new Fenway multi-use path from Miner Street, showing the Landmark Center building in the background at left.

Fenway multi-use path at Miner Street

Eyes on the Street: New Trail, Bike Projects Connect the Fenway

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