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MassDOT Starts Planning For Tobin Bridge Replacement

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Elections and Politics

Housing Advocates Release Boston City Council Candidate Questionnaire

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Early Voting Is Underway For Preliminary Municipal Elections

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Saturday: Allston’s First Open Streets Event

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Bicycling

Wu Admin. Announces September Start Date for Cargo Bike Delivery Pilot

A bicycle rider coasts through an intersection in a bike lane next to two cars and a pickup truck waiting to turn left from the oncoming direction. In the foreground, a row of flexible-post bollards separates the bike lane from the car lanes. A group of pedestrians on the opposite corner waits to cross the street.

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Mayor Wu Announces New Bike Riding Instructional Programs for Boston Kids

An evening city street scene on Boylston Street near Copley Square. On the left side of the photo is a busy sidewalk and a Chick-Fil-A restaurant. On the street in front of the restaurant, four cars, three of them double-parked, occupy the multiple-lane street; a food delivery driver is stepping out of one of the cars while a second car is attempting to drive between the others to fit in closer to the curb.

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Back Bay NIMBYs Try A Gruesome New Threat Against Protected Bike Lanes: ‘Someone Will Die’

Tremont Street in the South End. In the right foreground is a newly-installed median island paved in bricks and ringed by a granite curb and topped with an orange construction barrel. In the background a pedestrian crosses the street among more construction barrels. On the right, a bicycle rider passes in the opposite lane. Historic brick rowhomes line both sides of the street.

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Street Design

Tremont Street Safety Project Isn’t Complete, But Crashes Are Already Plummeting

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The Cops’ Directing-Traffic Racket Is Delaying Safety Projects

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