Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Boston

A double-parked Lyft driver waits outside of the South Station bus terminal on Thursday, August 8, 2019.

Uber/Lyft Have Big Impacts to Boston's Traffic

By Christian MilNeil and Aaron Short | Aug 8, 2019 | 3 Comments

Uber and Lyft have finally come clean: Their drivers are causing a significant share of the congestion in America’s most transit-dense cities, particularly in Boston. A new study jointly commissioned by the two app-based cab companies found that they have a massive footprint in San Francisco, Washington and Boston, but the companies are affecting traffic to a lesser degree […]

A map of recently installed stations (in blue), pending (yellow) and planned (in green) Bluebikes stations in the city of Boston as of July 2019. Courtesy of the Boston Transportation Department.

Boston Transportation Department Announces New Bluebikes Expansion

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

Mayor Marty Walsh and the Boston Transportation Department have announced planned sites for over a dozen new Bluebikes stations, which will expand the city’s bikesharing network into West Roxbury and Mattapan and add more infill stations in high-use neighborhoods like the South End. “By the end of 2019, Boston will install more than 50 new […]

The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has painted new bike lanes on Fenway near Simmons University. The lanes have been criticized for their lack of physical protection, and for their poor design at intersections. During the morning rush hour on July 11, 2019, dozens of safety advocates lined the new bike lanes to create a "people-protected" barrier.

Photos: ‘People-Protected’ Bike Lane on Fenway

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

A crowd of over 100 street safety advocates spent a pleasant morning in one of Boston’s Olmsted parks (albeit one that’s largely been paved over to give drivers more places to get stuck in traffic) as they created a “people-protected bike lane” on Fenway and Brookline Avenue during the morning rush hour. As reported previously, […]

The old Northern Avenue Bridge and the downtown Boston skyline in 2013. Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Ingfbruno.

Car Lanes Would Bust the Budget for Boston’s New Northern Avenue Bridge

By Christian MilNeil | May 31, 2019 | 2 Comments

Nine years ago, when it was still a vast plain of parking lots, planners imagined Boston’s Seaport neighborhood as the city’s future: a master-planned “innovation district” of tech companies, new housing options and signature public spaces along a revitalized waterfront. Now that it’s largely built, few people call the Seaport an “innovation district” any longer. […]

The Boston City Council hears testimony on the proposed 2020 Transportation Department budget in City Hall on May 7, 2019.

What’s in Boston’s 2020 Streets Budget?

By Christian MilNeil | May 10, 2019 | 1 Comment

City councilors, citing high volumes of complaints about dangerous streets, want city staff to act more quickly in implementing safety improvements.

The under-construction protected bike lane on Commonwealth Avenue, photographed on May 8, 2019.

Eyes on the Street: A Better Commonwealth Avenue

By Christian MilNeil | May 9, 2019 | 3 Comments

New protected bike lanes and Green Line improvements are being built through BU's west campus.

The current state of bike infrastructure on Craigie Bridge (also known as Charles River Dam Road) encourages bikes to take one of the bridge's 6 crowded motor vehicle lanes.

Protected Bike Lanes are Coming to the Craigie Bridge

By Christian MilNeil | May 7, 2019 | 2 Comments

The design, which MassDOT hopes to implement this June in a repaving project, adds continuous bike lanes, separated along most of their length with 1.5-foot buffer and flexible post bollards, plus dedicated bike signals at intersections on either end of the bridge, which is also known as Charles River Dam Road.