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Workers in fluorescent yellow vests wrangle equipment behind a pickup truck parked on a bike path in a park surrounded by budding trees. In the foreground row of three cones, the middle of which bears a "road closed" sign, blocks access to the trail where they are working. Next to the cones is a vertical concrete bollard with a sign. The top of the sign reads "dcr" with a leaf logo; below that, "Southwest Corridor Park," below that, an arrow pointing to the upper left just above a pedestrian walking icon, pointing to a narrower walking path to the left of the sign; below that, an arrow pointing to the upper right just above a bike icon points to the bike path.

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Bicycling

News Briefs: Free Bluebikes Sundays, Southwest Corridor Path Work Resumes

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Crowds walk and roll past a map of Sunday's Open Streets event in Jamaica Plain.

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Mayor Wu Announces Expanded Open Streets Events Calendar for 2023

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Advocacy Opportunities

Mayor Wu’s 2024 Budget Proposal Includes $1.4 Million for Electric Bluebikes

A view of a sidewalk-level bike lane running alongside newly planted sidewalk trees through a neighborhood of historic brick buildings. In the distance a downtown Boston skyscraper is visible.

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Buses Get Pushed to the Side in Boston’s Latest Design for Summer Street

A nighttime view of cars and trucks on a 6-lane expressway next to some railroad tracks (right) in downtown Boston.

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Highways

Boston Plans New Parkland to Bridge the Turnpike’s Scar Through Chinatown

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Boston, North Adams Win Federal Funds to Heal Highway Blight

Walking from one side of McGrath Highway to the other along Mystic Avenue requires pedestrians to cross multiple highway ramps and walk along "sidewalks" like this one, in the middle of the roadway.

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Somerville Preps Petitions for Lower Speed Limits on State-Controlled ‘Corridor of Death’

State Street and the Springfield Central Library in downtown Springfield.

Street Design

City of Springfield Wins $15 Million to Improve Street Safety Citywide

An architect's rendering of a new building with a ground-floor space signed "Boston Public Library" and 11 floors of apartments above. The upper floors are clad in green bricks and a small elevated plaza with ramps and small trees leads to the building's main entrance.

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In 2022, Boston Planners Once Again Approved More Parking Spaces Than Homes

A view from the Boston Public Library steps overlooking the festivities from day one of Copley Connect, a pilot project that will close one block of Dartmouth Street to motor vehicle traffic in order to expand the public space of Copley Square.

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City Declares Copley Open Street Pilot a ‘Success’ and Plans Permanent Improvements

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