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Christian MilNeil

Two pedestrians cross a crosswalk in a wide street with a potholed concrete median. The street is lined with new mid-rise buildings, about 8 to 10 stories tall.

HarrisonAvenueBeforeConstructionAugust2024

Street Design

Boston Will Build Another New Curb-Protected Bike Lane On Harrison Ave. Next Year

A shade structure over green-painted pavement. A spanish language sign in the foreground, attached to a tent post, is titled "Muy Pronto" (coming soon) and explains that the temporary plaza will host "eventos familiares como juegos, música en vivo, mercados campesinos y más"

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Tactical Urbanism

Eyes On the Street: Some Shade Flair for Day Square

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

A person in a teal dress shirt rides through a crosswalk on a green bike lane that lies between a row of parked cars in the middle of the street and a busy sidewalk on the left.

Boylston Street at Ring Road

Bicycling

Eyes On the Street: the New Boylston Street Bike Lane In Back Bay

A pedestrian steps into a street next to a full bike rack. In the foreground, a flyer attached to a sign post announces an upcoming paving project to add new bike lanes to the street.

MilkStreetBikeLanePavingJuly_17_2024

Protected bike lanes

Boston Breaks Ground On New Milk Street Bikeway Downtown

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Meghan Volcy

A view of a wide, multi-lane street leading under two traffic signals with a dark highway overpass beyond.

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MassDOT

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

A view of the new Columbus Ave. bus lanes and the new bus platforms at Walnut Avenue.

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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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Environment

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.

Berkeley and Appleton November 2023

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