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Mass. Senate Takes Up Automated Enforcement Bill
The amended bill now includes provisions to allow automated enforcement of dedicated bus lanes.
February 24, 2020
‘Safest Driver’ Data Reveal Where Boston’s Most Dangerous Driving Is
Data collected from a city-sponsored safe driving competition reveal that Boston's notoriously bad drivers are at their worst behavior on major high-speed state roadways that lie outside of the city's direct control.
February 20, 2020
America’s Mayors: Cars are Ruining Our Cities — But We Won’t Do Much About It!
“I was really struck … about [the mayors’] unwillingness to support or implement things that we in transportation planning know are evidence-based ways to make roads safer for vulnerable road users,” said Katherine Levine Einstein, a Boston University political science professor.
February 18, 2020
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