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Street Design

Snow Piles Reveal Pointless Pavement In the Wake of the Storm

A garden full of grasses and pink coneflowers lines the curb of a city street through a residential neighborhood. In the foreground, on the near side of the garden, is a sidewalk with a newly-planted tree next to an asphalt-paved bike lane. On the far side of the garden, a white SUV travels on the street. Behind the car is a red-painted crosswalk marked with two diamond street signs.

Bicycling

Lynn, Somerville, and Providence Win National Recognition for ‘Best New Bike Lanes’

A wide sidewalk path runs alongside a line of cars waiting for a traffic signal in the distance. To the right is an overgrown meadow and a large leafy tree that shades the path. On the left edge a crosswalk leads across the roadway. In the middle distance to the left is a brick-clad highway viaduct.

Highways

MassDOT Airs Options for Obsolete Memorial Drive Highway Interchange in Cambridge

A historic steel truss bridge with a bike path, lined with wooden fencing.

StreetsblogMASS

While We Were Away: A Roundup of News From the Holiday Break

A woman in a black coat and orange hat walks over a short bridge on a straight paved trail lined with wooden fences. The trail runs through a meadow lined with trees with bright red and orange fall leaves. A sign next to the bridge reads "PANTRY BROOK"

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New Trails to Look Forward To In 2026

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.

Boston Data Show New Bike Lanes Successfully Shift Traffic, With Fewer Cars and Way More Bikes

A view down a two-lane, one-way street with a wide shared-use path on the right side and a wide grassy lawn to the left. Across the lawn is another street lined with low-rise buildings, with one taller 6-story building standing out in the middle distance.

Eyes on the Street: The Fall of a Freeway in Fall River

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 area platforms. General motor vehicle traffic is confined to 1-2 lanes on either side of the busway. Along the sidewalks are green dedicated bike lanes, which are generally separated from the adjacent car lanes by gardens surrounded by curbs. 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.

Boston’s Bus Lane Projects Are Stuck In Red Tape, Leaving Riders Stuck In Traffic

A view down a long, straight bike path at dusk. In the center is a painted yellow line stretching to the horizon; to the left is a chain link fence with bands of horizontal lighting illuminating the path at regular intervals from underneath a steel railing at waist height. On the right is a 2-story brick warehouse building with illuminated windows and graffiti art. In the middle distance are two people blurred from a long photo exposure walking along the path.

Somerville Completes Installation of Community Path Lighting Improvements

A long line of cars waits in two lanes of stopped traffic on the right, while on the left, a single car drives down a roadway next to a wide bike lane. A concrete median divides the two sides of the road, and on the edges of the photo are large, mature leafy trees.

Your Annual Update That DCR’s Arborway Redesign Still Isn’t Happening