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Meghan Volcy

A map of the Alewife/Danehy Park area of Cambridge highlighting new off-street bike and pedestrian trail projects in the works. One dotted line represents a path along the north side of the MBTA Fitchburg Line, linking Alewife Stn. in the NW (upper left) to Sherman St. in the east (lower right) alongside several labelled apartment towers, including the Jefferson Park public housing. A second green dashed line represents a new path that would connect Danehy Park to New Street and Concord Avenue (at the bottom edge of the map). Solid green lines near the upper half of the map indicate existing paths in the Minuteman Bikeway and Mass. Central Rail Trail networks.

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Accessibility

City of Cambridge Projects Aim to Reconnect Communities Around Alewife Station

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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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Healey Administration Will Continue to Reduce Riverbend Park Access In Favor of Motor Vehicle Traffic In 2024

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Bicycling

How — and Why — To Start a Neighborhood E-Bike Library

A photo illustration of a trail surrounded by fall foliage with a pair of train tracks off the right edge, separated from the path by a fence. A sign in the foreground says "Belmont community path [line break] To Belmont Center [right arrow] Belmont High School [up arrow] 0.3 miles; Alewife MBTA station [up arrow] 1.7 miles

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Trails

After a 4-Year Delay, Belmont Gears Up to Build Its First Segment of the Mass. Central Rail Trail

A person wearing black pedals a bike away from the camera on a wide street lined with trees beginning to turn yellow in the autumn. The rider is using a protected bike path that's separated from the adjacent car lanes by barriers including a brick-paved median island in the lower left foreground.

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Cambridge Bike Lane NIMBYs Lose Again In Court

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MBTA to Suspend Red Line Service In Cambridge and Downtown Boston This Weekend

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MBTA to Suspend Harvard-Alewife Red Line Service Starting Monday

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Two Massachusetts Projects Rank Among ‘America’s Best New Bike Lanes’

A concept plan shows a grid of new streets – most of which are 4-5 lanes wide – overlaid on top of the vacant triangle of land between Cambridge Street and I-90 in Allston. Four new streets, labelled (from west to east) Seattle St. Connector, Stadium Way Connector, Cattle Drive Connector, and East Drive Connector – would run north-south from I-90 to Cambridge Street. Four other streets would run east-west, roughly parallel to I-90 and the Worcester Line train tracks: two streets are essentially frontage roads for I-90, the northerly (eastbound) which is labelled "Lincoln St. Connector". A block north is a street labelled "Cambridge St. South." And in the northeastern tip of the triangle, running only between Stadium Way Connector and Soldiers Field Road, is a street labelled "Hotel Way"

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Highways

Allston Project’s Next Challenge: Keeping the Turnpike’s Traffic Jams Out of A New ‘Transit-Oriented’ Neighborhood

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The Polls Are In: Hating Bike Lanes Is Not A Winning Electoral Strategy

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