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Christian MilNeil

Map of the Davis and Teele Square neighborhoods in Somerville. Holland Street, College Avenue, and Broadway form a triangle north of Davis Square, with Holland running northwest from Davis to Teele Square, College Avenue running northeast from Davis to Powder House Square, and Broadway running east-to-west at the top of the triangle from Teele to Powder House, a few blocks south of the Tufts campus..

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Somerville to Build Protected Bike Lanes Near Davis Square After Fatal ‘Dooring’ Crash

Nick Sementelli

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Vision Zero

Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco

A rendering of a proposed high-rise lab building on Brookline Avenue in the Fenway shows proposed new two-way bike paths (lower right) that would provide a protected connection between the Fenway neighborhood to Longwood, via Brookline Avenue, and to the Riverway. Courtesy of the BPDA.

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Protected Intersection Could Bridge Critical Bike Network Gap on the Fenway

A Google Street View image of Broadway in Somerville near the site where Stephen Conley crashed. The roadway includes two parking lanes against the curbs, two travel lanes for cars, and two green-painted bike lanes in between the parking and moving vehicle lanes. In the middle distance is a traffic light at the intersection of Packard Avenue. The bike lanes do not continue beyond that intersection.

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Mayor Pledges ‘Immediate’ Action After Somerville Resident Killed In Door-Zone Bike Lane

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.

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

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Truck Driver Kills Cambridge Man Next to Symphony Hall in Boston

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

Yonah Freemark

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Advocacy Opportunities

Why French and US Road Deaths Went In Dramatically Different Directions

Grecia White

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.

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MassDOT Plans Two New Roundabouts for Dangerous Worcester Intersection

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Kea Wilson

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