streetsblog-mass-logo-alt

streetsblog-mass-logo-dark

lede_post_card_default

lede_post_card_stacked

lede_post_card_featured_post

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero

lede_post_card_featured_posts_sidebar

lede_post_card_highlighted_post

lede_post_card_horizontal_a

lede_post_card_horizontal_c

lede_post_card_related_post

lede_article_featured_16x9

lede_article_featured_3x2

lede_article_featured_flexible

lede_article_content

lede_article_content_wide_width

lede_article_content_full_width

lede_byline_avatar_post_card

lede_byline_avatar_highlight

lede_profile_coral_avatar

lede_logo

lede_logo_banner

lede_logo_footer_banner

lede_logo_simple_header

lede_sponsorship_logo

lede_sponsorship_logo_river_card

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card_logo

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card

Header

Streetsblog Network

Connecting people to information about how to improve walking, biking, and transit

streetsblog-mass-logo

Streetsblog Massachusetts

Support StreetsblogMASS

SB-Donation-500px-wide

Donate to StreetsblogMASS house ad – homepage

River card donations house ad

<p>Got tips? Send them to me via Signal, the encrypted messaging app, at 207-310-0728. You can also follow me on <a href="https://better.boston/@cmilneil" rel="me">Mastodon.</a></p>


PROMO-milneil

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.

RiverbendParkBikes

Elections and Politics

Emails Reveal State Officials’ Flawed Excuses For Taking Away Riverbend Park Access in Cambridge

Screenshot 2023-07-26 at 10.48.51 PM

Read Sec. Tepper’s Memo Regarding Her Cancellation of Car-Free Riverbend Park Events

A blurry security camera image of the Harvard Red Line station platform. About half a dozen passengers are waiting there, some standing near the tracks, some sitting on benches along the wall, and a large puddle in the middle of the platform is marked by a large orange construction cone.

Harvard Red Line security camera footage

MBTA

Are We Feeling Safe Yet? Falling Utility Box at Harvard Station Contained Forgotten Homeland Security Surveillance Equipment

Three people in construction vests walk down a long, straight paved pathway next to railroad tracks. In the distance the path ascends a ramp then curves out of sight, and beyond that is the skyline of downtown Boston.

View southeast from East Somerville Station

Bicycling

UPDATED: Unresolved Accessibility Issues Push Somerville Community Path Opening to Mid-June

Memorial_Drive,_Riverside,_Cambridge_MA

It’s Official: State ‘Conservation’ Agency Will Reduce Park Access to Bring Back Motor Vehicle Traffic

Advocacy Opportunities

Traffic or Parkland? State Stonewalling Leaves Riverbend Park In Limbo

A bike rider rides along a flexpost-protected bike lane next to a sidewalk cafe on one side and a line of cars waiting in traffic on the other side of the bus lane, on the left edge of the photo.

MassAveCambridgeMay52022

Judge Dismisses Suit Against Cambridge’s Cycling Safety Ordinance

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.

Mystic Ave. Sidewalk near McGrath

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

Two people ride bikes along new bike lanes, separated from the car lanes by rows of white flexible-post bollards, on Massachusetts Avenue near Dana Street in Cambridge.

Cambridge