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1:00 PM EDT on August 8, 2024
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Friday’s Headlines Got Charlie Brown Again
By Blake Aued
Why won’t Democrats punt and then try a field goal if and when they take more power next year?
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MassDOT’s Riverfront Interchange Plans In Cambridge Get a Little Smaller
By Christian MilNeil
Engineers acknowledge that the Reid overpass, where Memorial Drive meets the Boston University Bridge, is “outdated and no longer reflects current best practices for safety, efficiency, or multimodal access.”
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Fed Up With Blocked Bike Lanes? ‘Bike Bureau’ Wants to Let City Hall Know It
By Sunny Ramos
A software developer is working on an easier-to-use system to report illegally-parked vehicles and identify streets that need better physical protection for bike lanes.
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City Hall Is On the Verge of Cancelling Privately-Funded Safety Improvements For Deadly East Boston Roadway
By Christian MilNeil
The developers of a new apartment building near Day Square had been planning to build traffic-calming safety improvements on a segment of Bennington Street in East Boston. A new plan to cancel those improvements in favor of more parking faces a final vote from Boston’s Public Improvements Commission at its August 20 public hearing.
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Driver Kills 7-Year-Old Victim in Williamstown Crash
By Christian MilNeil
There are no sidewalks on the segment of Main Street where the homicide occurred, less than a quarter-mile from the town library.
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DCR Pilots Car-Free Roads In Blue Hills Reservation This Weekend
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Beginning today, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) will test weekend restrictions on motor vehicle traffic on parts of Chickatawbut Road and Wampatuck Road in the heart of the Blue Hills Reservation.
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