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Turners Falls shared streets and spaces project in Montague, Mass.

MassDOT

MassDOT Announces $12.5 Million in Shared Streets, Complete Streets Grants

LynnwayRendering

Bus lanes

State Agencies Seek to Transform the Lynnway With New Bike Path and Bus Rapid Transit

Wellington Circle in Medford

Accessibility

What Do We Do About Wellington?

MassAveSouthRendering_nearMelneaCass

Bicycling

Boston to Break Ground On Mass. Ave. South Bikeway Later This Year

Protected bike lane on Washington St in Brookline

MBTA Will Paint 4.8 Miles of New Bus Lanes This Summer

25% design plans for the Rutherford Avenue corridor, showing the reconfigured Sullivan Square. The current traffic circle would be replaced with a grid of streets, new developable lots, and an expansion of the Ryan Playground. Courtesy of MassDOT and the City of Boston.

Sullivan Square plans from the City of Boston’s Rutherford Ave. redesign

Boston, MassDOT Reveal Plans to Reconfigure Sullivan Square By 2026

Walking from one side of McGrath Highway to the other along Mystic Avenue requires pedestrians to cross multiple highway ramps and and along a "sidewalk" in the middle of the highway.

McGrath Highway Crosswalk

Bowing to Pressure, MassDOT Will Fast-Track Traffic Calming in Somerville’s ‘Corridor of Death’

Fenway ‘people-protected bike lane’ July 2019

Advocacy Opportunities

At Long Last, DCR Releases Master Plan for Safer Parkways

On-street dining in Hanover Street in the North End, May 2021

Street Design

Poll: Metro Boston Voters Strongly Support Reconfigured Streets With Fewer Cars, More Public Space

Petru Sofio

Bike on Massachusetts Ave. in Arlington

Arlington Test-Drives Safer Intersection Designs At Mass. Ave. and Appleton