Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Vision Zero

Looking east up Cambridge Street towards Government Center near the intersection of Joy Street. A wide brick-paved median dominates the foreground view; to the sides are two lanes of car traffic in each direction. A bike rider climbs the hill on the right edge of the photo.

Deference to Car Traffic Compromises Key Missing Link in Boston’s Bike Network

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 1, 2022 | No Comments

When it comes to designing safer streets to make that future a reality, the city is binding itself with assumptions that it won’t actually meet its climate goals, and sacrificing public space that could otherwise be dedicated to bus lanes or protected bike lanes in order to accommodate pre-pandemic volumes of motor vehicle traffic.

The corner of Massachusetts Avenue (right) and Huntington Avenue, where a truck driver struck and killed a person riding a bicycle on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Courtesy of Google.

Truck Driver Kills Cambridge Man Next to Symphony Hall in Boston

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 14, 2022 | No Comments

Massachusetts Avenue, a major north-south bike route between Cambridge, Back Bay, the South End, and Dorchester, features a paint-only bike lane at the site of the crash.

An uninjured driver stands next to the SUV she flipped over while driving on Route 1 in Peabody on March 18, 2020. Photo courtesy of the Massachusetts State Police.

Guest Column: What if We Held Transit and Traffic to the Same Safety Standards?

By Caitlin Rogger | Jul 6, 2022 | No Comments

Editor’s note: this piece originally appeared in Greater Greater Washington and is being reprinted here with permission. Washington, D.C.’s Metro announced in mid-June that it would bring some 7000-series trains back online over the coming weeks, bringing relief to riders from months of painfully irregular service. After nine months of investigation, operator training, and changes […]

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Why French and US Road Deaths Went In Dramatically Different Directions

By Yonah Freemark | Jul 6, 2022 | No Comments

Here's how American states and cities can look to the French example for approaches to improve road safety.

A rendering of two new roundabouts overlaid on an aerial image of the intersections of Chandler Street and May Street in Worcester. Two "Y"-shaped intersections where the two streets converge would be converted into a pair of roundabouts, with two wide shared-use pathways around the edges of and between the new roundabouts.

MassDOT Plans Two New Roundabouts for Dangerous Worcester Intersection

By Grecia White | Jun 21, 2022 | No Comments

Last week, MassDOT shared their plans to convert a dangerous pair of intersections on Worcester’s west side to two roundabouts in an effort to improve safety and provide better pedestrian and bicycle accommodations next to the Worcester State University campus. May Street and Chandler Street are both east-west streets that cross Worcester’s west side and […]

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Study: Black Cyclists Die 4.5 Times More Often Than White Riders

By Kea Wilson | Jun 14, 2022 | No Comments

Black cyclists are more than four times more likely to die while riding a bike than White ones, a new study finds — and the stats aren't much better for other modes or other racially marginalized groups.

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