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Boston Starts Outreach For Hyde Park Ave. Bus and Bike Improvements
Planners from the City of Boston and the MBTA held their first open house on Tuesday evening in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood to solicit ideas for "complete streets" and transit-priority improvements to Hyde Park Avenue, a major transit corridor and one of the only north-south routes into the neighborhoods of Hyde Park and Readville.
February 17, 2020
Plans For Somerville’s Deadliest Intersection Make Little Effort To Tame Violent Driving
A $5 million safety improvement project for the dangerous intersection of Mystic Avenue and McGrath Highway will provide basic accessibility upgrades to sidewalks and crosswalks, but largely will not address the reckless, high-speed driving behavior that killed two people in hit-and-run crashes in the area over the past year, according to plans presented by MassDOT officials Wednesday evening.
February 13, 2020
Helsinki Accomplished ‘Vision Zero’ in 2019
Helsinki, home to 631,695 people, recorded zero pedestrian or cyclist fatalities on its streets for the entire calendar year.
February 12, 2020
Baker Administration Promotes Montgomery As New DCR Commissioner
The Baker administration today announced that Jim Montgomery has named as the new Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), an agency in charge of managing the Commonwealth's parklands as well as several high-speed "parkways" in the Boston region.
February 5, 2020
Somerville Seeks Feedback For City’s First Vision Zero Action Plan
The draft plan also makes equity and data-driven accountability two guiding principles of its strategies, with a promise to 'acknowledge the disproportionate burden of traffic crashes on people of color.'
January 30, 2020
Preliminary Data Show Slight Decline In Motor Vehicle Killings For 2019
The Commonwealth's car-centered transportation system still exacted a brutally high body count, with 339 lives lost across the state.
January 3, 2020
Two Dead In Aftermath of Highway Contractor’s Holiday Party
The morning after a HiWay Safety Systems holiday party, one employee was found unresponsive in a motel room, and another employee, allegedly driving a company vehicle under the influence, crashed into and killed a 13-year-old victim.
January 2, 2020
Another Brockton Cop Has Seriously Injured a Pedestrian
A Brockton Police officer has seriously injured a woman by striking her with his police cruiser late Tuesday afternoon.
December 11, 2019
Cambridge Will Ax Two Car Lanes From Harvard Square
A redesigned Harvard Square will go under construction in June 2020.
December 5, 2019
Drivers In Worcester Have Killed Two People in the Past 24 Hours
In two separate incidents, drivers killed two people walking on the west side of Worcester.
November 27, 2019
