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a white striped crosswalk with two vegetated curb extensions on either side.

Somerville Avenue, curb extensions, October 24, 2022

Traffic Calming

Wu Admin Announces ‘Safety Surge’ of Traffic Calming for Neighborhood Streets

A wide intersection with a multi-story brick building on the far side. In the foreground is a triangular traffic island surrounded by asphalt where three crosswalks meet.

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Crashes

Truck Driver Kills 5-Year-Old Girl In a Downtown Andover Crosswalk

A street sign in French reads "30 km/h" next to a green traffic light; below that, a larger photo of a young girl wearing a backpack is next to a yellow speech bubble that says "ralentissez pour ma securite," or "slow down for my safety." A school bus and a green traffic light are visible behind the sign in the background.

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Steal This Idea: In Québec, A New Traffic Light Only Turns Green for Safe Drivers

A Black man wearing shorts and a t-shirt rides a chopper bicycle past a mural with flowers that says "Black Lives Matter"

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Bicycling

Worcester Film Screening to Discuss the Realities of ‘Biking While Black’

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Main Street Project Would Widen Sidewalks, Create Protected Bike Lanes In Downtown Northampton

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MassDOT

WalkBoston Analysis Finds Traffic Violence Is Overwhelmingly Concentrated in Lower-Income, Non-White Neighborhoods

Walking from one side of McGrath Highway to the other along Mystic Avenue requires pedestrians to cross multiple highway ramps and walk along "sidewalks" like this one, in the middle of the roadway.

Mystic Ave. Sidewalk near McGrath

Somerville Preps Petitions for Lower Speed Limits on State-Controlled ‘Corridor of Death’

State Street and the Springfield Central Library in downtown Springfield.

Street Design

City of Springfield Wins $15 Million to Improve Street Safety Citywide

A person riding a bike along a sunny one-way street next to some two-story buildings with stores on the ground floor.

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In Chicopee, Drivers Have Killed 8 People Since September

A freshly-painted green bike lane runs alongside a row of white flexible-post bollards and the sidewalk, where a white bicycle leaning against a traffic light pole memorializes George Clemmer, a bicyclist who was killed at this intersection in July 2022.

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2022 Was Another Record-Breaking Year For Bloodshed on Massachusetts Roadways

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