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Provincetown Pilots New Barriers to Protect Pedestrians On Commercial St.
Police in Provincetown have started deploying mobile barriers on Commercial Street, the town's main commercial thoroughfare, to give additional protection to the thousands of pedestrians who fill the street on summer weekends.
August 19, 2025
Mayor Wu Announces Scaled-Back Open Streets Schedule for 2025
On Wednesday morning, Mayor Michelle Wu announced the city's 2025 schedule of Open Streets events, with five weekend street festivals in Dorchester, Roxbury, Hyde Park, Mattapan, and Jamaica Plain, plus 11 car-free Sundays for Newbury Street in the Back Bay this summer and fall.
May 8, 2025
Wu Admin Expands Open Newbury Events Into December
Editor's note: the following is a lightly-edited adaptation of a City of Boston press release.
November 5, 2024
Boston’s Last Open Streets Festival of the Year Comes to Allston This Sunday
Boston's final Open Streets festival of the 2024 season is coming to Allston from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
October 16, 2024
Hyde Park Gets Its First Open Streets Festival This Weekend
Boston's open streets program will come to Hyde Park for the first time ever this weekend, opening up a short segment of River Street and Fairmount Avenue for foot traffic on Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
August 8, 2024
Open Streets Season Starts May 5 In Dorchester
Boston's first open streets festival of 2024 is happening this weekend on Dorchester Avenue, between Linden Street and Ashmont Street from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
May 3, 2024
Mayor Wu Announces 2024 Open Streets Schedule, With Expansion to Hyde Park
On Tuesday morning, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced an expanded program of Open Streets events for 2024 that will bring the popular car-free festivals to Hyde Park for the first time.
March 26, 2024
Saturday: Allston’s First Open Streets Event
This summer's third open streets festival is coming to Allston this weekend, when the City of Boston will close Brighton and Harvard Avenues to car traffic and open up the neighborhood to a day-long festival of outdoor activities and performances.
August 18, 2023
City Declares Copley Open Street Pilot a ‘Success’ and Plans Permanent Improvements
72 percent of survey respondents expressed a "very positive" opinion about making the car-free plaza permanent.
January 19, 2023
Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco
Smoking, once a celebrated totem of American culture, is increasingly an ostracized habit of the marginal few. Getting there, though, took deliberate vision, coordinated efforts, and persistent policy trial and error over decades — and those efforts reveal a partial roadmap for breaking our country’s similarly dangerous addiction to cars.
September 2, 2022
