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Boston Seeks Plans for Bus Priority, Protected Bike Routes Through Longwood and Kenmore Square
The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) just released a request for proposals to conduct a new transportation study of the Longwood and Kenmore Square neighborhoods that aims to accommodate millions of square feet in new development with new transit-priority streets and better-connected networks of trails and protected bike lanes.
August 9, 2022
Bike Union Protest Creates ‘People-Protected’ Bike Lane Across Beacon Hill
This morning, the Boston Cyclists Union created a “people-protected bike lane” to call attention to the need for safer bike infrastructure through Beacon Hill to complete the promised Downtown Bike Network - a pre-pandemic City of Boston initiative that’s yet to fully materialize.
August 2, 2022
Deference to Car Traffic Compromises Key Missing Link in Boston’s Bike Network
When it comes to designing safer streets to make that future a reality, the city is binding itself with assumptions that it won’t actually meet its climate goals, and sacrificing public space that could otherwise be dedicated to bus lanes or protected bike lanes in order to accommodate pre-pandemic volumes of motor vehicle traffic.
August 1, 2022
Public Bathroom Access An Undervalued But Necessary Element of Walking, Transit Infrastructure
Catarina De Albuquerque, chief officer of the United Nations Sanitation and Water for All, calls the dearth of public bathrooms “an ongoing sanitation crisis, and it highlights American inequality and marginalization.”
July 25, 2022
Truck Driver Kills Cambridge Man Next to Symphony Hall in Boston
Massachusetts Avenue, a major north-south bike route between Cambridge, Back Bay, the South End, and Dorchester, features a paint-only bike lane at the site of the crash.
July 14, 2022
Open Streets Celebration Coming to Jamaica Plain This Weekend
"It's a space where people can be active and not have to worry about traffic and all the things that come with it,” said Boston Chief of Streets Jascha Franklin-Hodge.
July 8, 2022
New Walking City Trail Links Together Boston’s Best Walks In A 25-Mile Urban Hike
“The Walking City Trail is basically a 25 mile showcase of Boston's most immersive parks, urban wilds and other green spaces."
June 16, 2022
Photos From Boston Cyclists Union’s Inaugural Pride Ride
“The most vulnerable people in our community need the most support and so we wanted to make sure queer people felt safe on a bike… If you’re a queer person and you’re running around town blasting some gay music, some queer music, it is so much fun! And you feel, at least I feel, so good!” said BCU organizer Alex Shames.
June 14, 2022
‘Copley Connect’ Echa a los Vehiculos Para Amplear Uno de los Espacios Famosos de Boston
“Es genial tener este tipo de espacio donde hay como una oportunidad para que la gente vea a esta calle de una manera diferente, lo que era la meta de todo esto,” dijo el Jefe de Calles, Jascha Franklin-Hodge.
June 9, 2022
‘Copley Connect’ Expands a Signature Boston Public Space By Kicking Out the Cars
“It's great to have this kind of space where there’s sort of an opportunity for people to look at this street in a different way, and that was the goal of this,” said Boston's Chief of Streets.
June 9, 2022
