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Accessibility

PROWAG Can Make Cities More Accessible — So Here’s What You Need to Know

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Meghan Volcy

A rendering of a wide street from a birds-eye perspective. The center of the street features a red dedicated busway, with two lanes (one in each direction) separated from adjacent traffic with landscaped medians and bus stop waiting areas. General motor vehicle traffic is confined to 1-2 lanes on either side of the busway. Along the sidewalks are green dedicated bike lanes. A label in the upper left denotes the Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library, and another label denotes the intersecting street as Walk Hill St.

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Transit

Boston Officially Commits to Building Dedicated Busway on Blue Hill Ave.

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Christian MilNeil

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

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Bicycling

Two Massachusetts Projects Rank Among ‘America’s Best New Bike Lanes’

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Street Design

Highway Engineers Sought Exemptions From Safe Street Design Requirements In Springfield’s $19 Million Rebuild of ‘The X’

A rendering of a bus rapid transit station with red-painted bus lanes in the center and large boarding platforms on either side. Signs on top of the canopies above the platform say "community college". On either side of the platform are crosswalks and multiple lanes for car traffic.

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Bus lanes

Boston’s Next Bus Rapid Transit Line Would Link Downtown, Sullivan Square Before the End of This Decade

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Passengers cross a boarding platform painted in floral patterns to board or debark from an MBTA 116 bus, which is on the right side of the photo facing the camera. To the left, numerous potted plants and trees surround a bus shelter.

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Guest Column: With Data, We Can Design Bus Stops to Make People Feel Happy

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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The Climate Emergency

New Morrissey Boulevard Commission Will Come Up With Another Plan for Boston’s Wettest Highway

A man rides a Bluebike towards the camera in a separated bike lane that runs between the sidewalk (left) and a row of parked cars (center). A row of flexible-post bollards in the foreground divides the bike lane from moving traffic. The street is lined with multi-story buildings.

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Protected bike lanes

Eyes On the Street: Back Bay’s New Bikeways