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Christian MilNeil

A crowd of people on bikes rides down an empty four-lane highway. On the left side of the roadway are large trees and multi-story brick buildings; on the right is the Charles River with the Boston skyline in the distance.

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Street Design

DCR Will Start Tearing Out Pavement for Memorial Drive Narrowing Project In 2025

A view of the Charles River with the Zakim cable-stayed bridge on the horizon and a shorter group of three drawbridges in the foreground.

MBTA Draw 1 01 Closed © Rosales + Partners Inc

MBTA

MBTA’s ‘Draw One’ Construction Will Last 8 Years, Per Environmental Filings

A satellite-view map of detours on Broadway in Cambridge between Galileo Galilei Way (at the left edge) and Ames Street (at the right edge). A hashed "work zone" is shaded in along the north side of the block in the upper half of the aerial view. A right arrow indicates one-way motor vehicle traffic in the middle of Broadway; below that, another two-way arrow indicates two-way bike traffic on a separated path along the southern edge of the roadway; below that, a dashed line indicates a pedestrian detour route along the southern sidewalk.

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Events

Detours Take Effect for Broadway in Kendall Square, Part of Region’s Busiest Bike Route

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Meghan Volcy

Two people on bikes ride on a green-painted bike lane towards an arched bridge on the horizon. Next to them are four lanes for motor vehicles being used by two cars, and a wide sidewalk on their right.

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Advocacy Opportunities

More Safety Improvements In the Works for B.U. Bridge Area

Hundreds of yellow flowers are scattered on the steps of the Massachusetts State House, with the gold-plated dome of the State House visible at upper right. Signs proclaim the flowers are in honor of the victims of traffic violence for the World Day of Remembrance.

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Find an Event Near You to Commemorate the World Day of Remembrance for Victims of Traffic Violence

Pots of flowers line the edge of a bike lane alongside a wide multi-lane highway lined with trees. In the distance the skyscrapers of downtown Boston are visible on the horizon.

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State Officials Say Work to Improve Safety at Lethal Memorial Drive Crash Site Will Begin On Monday

Several pedestrians and a person on a bike pass each other on a narrow sidewalk next to a wide multi-lane highway.

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Crashes

SUV Driver Kills Bicyclist On Memorial Drive Bike Path in Cambridge

Workers wearing flourescent green jackets place new rebar under the subway tracks inside a subway tunnel. Behind them, three more workers watch over them from the top of an orange machine that has lights illuminating the work

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T Will Poke A New Hole In the Red Line For Shorter Service Disruptions

A map of the Harvard Square area illustrating route changes for the MBTA 66 bus, which will now run through the Harvard bus tunnel to connect to the Red Line underground.

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T Updates Routing for Bus 66 Through Harvard Bus Tunnel

A drone's-eye view of the massive Alewife parking garage in Cambridge. The top level of the garage is roughly the size of 3.5 football fields, and is completely empty of any parked cars in the image.

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Alewife Redevelopment Could Convert Obsolete Garage Into Thousands of New Transit-Oriented Homes

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