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City of Boston Preliminary Elections Are Today
Today's top 8 vote-winners among a field of 15 at-large candidates – and the top two vote winners in each district race – will move ahead to compete in the general election on Nov. 5.
September 24, 2019
Eyes On the Street: Chinatown’s New Phillips Square Plaza
A little-used turning lane on Harrison Street in Chinatown is on the verge of being reclaimed as public space as the city puts the finishing touches on a new plaza in Phillips Square.
August 29, 2019
Reconstruction of High-Crash Melnea Cass Boulevard Delayed to 2020
Construction of a long-planned safety project for the Melnea Cass Boulevard in Roxbury has been delayed until 2020, according to MassDOT, and won't be complete until 2024.
August 19, 2019
Eyes on the Street: New Bikeways on Charles River Dam
One of the first stories that StreetsblogMASS covered was a May public meeting on MassDOT's plans for a road diet and new flexpost-protected bike lanes on Craigie Bridge (also known as Charles River Dam Road) in front of the Boston Museum of Science.
August 9, 2019
Uber/Lyft Admit Responsibility For A Significant Share of Boston’s Traffic
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.
August 8, 2019
Boston Transportation Department Announces New Bluebikes Expansion
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.
July 30, 2019
Photos: ‘People-Protected’ Bike Lane on Fenway
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.
July 11, 2019
Car Lanes Would Bust the Budget for Boston’s New Northern Avenue Bridge
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.
May 31, 2019
What’s in Boston’s 2020 Streets Budget?
City councilors, citing high volumes of complaints about dangerous streets, want city staff to act more quickly in implementing safety improvements.
May 10, 2019
Eyes on the Street: A Safer Commonwealth Avenue Takes Shape
New protected bike lanes and Green Line improvements are being built through BU's west campus.
May 9, 2019
