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a paved path meandering through trees next to a parking lot by a road featuring a new sidewalk

Minuteman Bikeway Extension Hinges on Upcoming Special Vote

By Grecia White | Oct 6, 2022 | No Comments

Next month, residents of the Town of Bedford will decide the future of their town’s Minuteman Trail extension project during a Special Town Meeting, where a two-thirds majority vote is needed to move the project into construction. America’s Revolutionary Rail Trail, or the Minuteman Trail, as the popular bikeway is commonly known, currently spans 10.1 […]

People wearing day-glo vests walk along a paved path that's under construction, with bare soil and riprap on the ground to the left and the Green Line Extension tracks below them to the right.

Photos: A Construction Tour of Somerville’s Community Path and New Light Rail Line

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 12, 2022 | No Comments

During last week’s NACTO conference in Boston, attendees streamed out of the Hynes Convention Center each morning for “walkshops” that offered tours of some of the region’s pedestrian, bike, and transit infrastructure. One of those walkshops offered a hard-hat construction tour of the Somerville Community Path Extension, which is nearing the end of its construction […]

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..

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

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 2, 2022 | No Comments

Holland Street is scheduled to be repaved this fall; until this week, the project would have created a single paint-only bike lane next to parked cars, similar to the street layout on nearby Broadway.

Memorial Drive in Cambridge. Photo by John Phelan, licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 3.0.

Looks Like Memorial Drive Will Remain Open On Saturdays After All

By Grecia White | Aug 18, 2022 | No Comments

There won’t be any changes in the operating hours of Cambridge’s popular car-free weekends on Memorial Drive, even though the state Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) gave its fans a scare last week when it unexpectedly announced that it was planning to let car traffic back in on Saturdays. Such incredibly disappointing news. We'll […]

Bicyclists ride on a section of the Southwest Corridor between Green Street and Stony Brook stations during the group bike ride with Mayor Michelle Wu last Thursday morning.

Weekend Construction Work On the Southwest Corridor Set to Overlap with Start of Orange Line Shutdown

By Grecia White and Christian MilNeil | Aug 17, 2022 | No Comments

The Department of Conservation and Recreation, DCR, the managing state agency for the Southwest Corridor, will “implement moving closures along the Southwest Corridor Park bike path in the City of Boston to accommodate repair work” during the first weekend of the Orange Line shutdown. @MassDCR has issued the following UPDATED recreational advisory for the Southwest […]

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RAISE Grants to Fund Complete Streets in Nearly Every State

By Kea Wilson | Aug 11, 2022 | No Comments

The first recipients of a newly expanded major transportation grant program will deliver significant money for biking, walking and transit — and even some road projects that federal transportation leaders say will help non-drivers, too.

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