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Meghan Volcy

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Medford Main Street Project Sparks Community Debate on Safety, Mobility, and Sustainability

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Christian MilNeil

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Bus lanes

USDOT Grants $22 Million for Dedicated Busway Between Sullivan Square and Everett

A map of Somerville highlighting its "priority bike network" from the city's bike plan. The map highlights busier streets that would receive separated bike lanes – like Broadway and Somerville Ave. – in green, and quieter neighborhood streets that would receive traffic calming treatments to serve as shared bike routes in blue.

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Vision Zero

New Somerville Safe Streets Ordinance Mandates 30-Mile Protected Bike Lane Network By 2030

A person riding a bike turns onto a residential street lined with 3- and 4-story apartment buildings and trees blossoming with spring flowers. Along the left edge of the street is a narrower bike lane paved with fresh asphalt and separated from the car lanes with a granite curb.

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Eyes On the Street: Somerville’s New Garden-Protected Bike Lane

A city street lined with historic multi-story brick rowhouse buildings with the glass Hancock Tower skyscraper rising above them in the background. In the foreground is an intersection with a traffic light turning yellow and a street sign that says "Appleton Street". A woman in a puffy winter coat is crossing the street. On the right is a newly-painted protected bike lane running between the sidewalk and a row of parked cars.

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Street Design

Transit and Bike Riders Will Get More Space On Back Bay Streets This Year

Dan Albert is the author of Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless, the town of Marblehead MBTA Advisory Board representative, and a member of the Metropolitan Planning Organization&#8217;s Vision Zero Task Force.

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A view downhill down a city street lined with modest 2-3 story wooden buildings. A street sign in the middle distance says "Montrose" under a "one way" sign pointing left. Further on, four bright yellow diamond signs mark a crosswalk and bike trail crossing. The crossing is flanked with two speed humps. There is no traffic on the street, only a few parked cars.

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Can’t-Do Attitudes Block Street Safety In Marblehead

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Huntington Ave. Redesign Will Eliminate Last Mixed-Traffic Segment of the Green Line By 2027

A map of the Alewife/Danehy Park area of Cambridge highlighting new off-street bike and pedestrian trail projects in the works. One dotted line represents a path along the north side of the MBTA Fitchburg Line, linking Alewife Stn. in the NW (upper left) to Sherman St. in the east (lower right) alongside several labelled apartment towers, including the Jefferson Park public housing. A second green dashed line represents a new path that would connect Danehy Park to New Street and Concord Avenue (at the bottom edge of the map). Solid green lines near the upper half of the map indicate existing paths in the Minuteman Bikeway and Mass. Central Rail Trail networks.

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City of Cambridge Projects Aim to Reconnect Communities Around Alewife Station

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Boston Kicks Off Planning to Redesign Columbia Road, A Lost Link In Its Emerald Necklace

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An Updated Guide To Boston’s Allston/I-90 Megaproject