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MassDOT Officially Breaks Ground On Northern Strand Extension Through Downtown Lynn

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Meghan Volcy

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Medford Main Street Project Sparks Community Debate on Safety, Mobility, and Sustainability

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Christian MilNeil

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MassTrails Program Grants $12 Million for 65 Trail Projects Statewide

A map of Somerville highlighting its "priority bike network" from the city's bike plan. The map highlights busier streets that would receive separated bike lanes – like Broadway and Somerville Ave. – in green, and quieter neighborhood streets that would receive traffic calming treatments to serve as shared bike routes in blue.

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Vision Zero

New Somerville Safe Streets Ordinance Mandates 30-Mile Protected Bike Lane Network By 2030

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Walking

Downtown Salem Gets Lots of Foot Traffic; Its Cops Want to Fence It In

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Thousands of Drivers Caught On Camera Passing Stopped School Buses In Peabody

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Events

Open Streets Season Starts May 5 In Dorchester

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Bicycling

Bay State Bike Month is Off to the Races with Kick-off at Aeronaut Brewing

A map of the Alewife/Danehy Park area of Cambridge highlighting new off-street bike and pedestrian trail projects in the works. One dotted line represents a path along the north side of the MBTA Fitchburg Line, linking Alewife Stn. in the NW (upper left) to Sherman St. in the east (lower right) alongside several labelled apartment towers, including the Jefferson Park public housing. A second green dashed line represents a new path that would connect Danehy Park to New Street and Concord Avenue (at the bottom edge of the map). Solid green lines near the upper half of the map indicate existing paths in the Minuteman Bikeway and Mass. Central Rail Trail networks.

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Accessibility

City of Cambridge Projects Aim to Reconnect Communities Around Alewife Station

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Close.City Maps Illustrate Inequalities of Access to Vital Services Across the Boston Region