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Christian MilNeil

A map of Somerville highlighting its "priority bike network" from the city's bike plan. The map highlights busier streets that would receive separated bike lanes – like Broadway and Somerville Ave. – in green, and quieter neighborhood streets that would receive traffic calming treatments to serve as shared bike routes in blue.

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Vision Zero

New Somerville Safe Streets Ordinance Mandates 30-Mile Protected Bike Lane Network By 2030

New separated bike lanes on Massachusetts Avenue in front of Cambridge City Hall.

Mass. Ave. at Cambridge City Hall

After Marathon Meeting, Cambridge City Council Narrowly Votes to Delay Street Safety Projects

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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Bicycling

Cambridge Bike Lane NIMBYs Lose Again In Court

A photo-illustration rendering shows families with strollers on the sidewalk on the left, a parent and child riding bikes through a crosswalk in a bike lane next to a tan-painted island, and an MBTA bus in the distance.

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City of Cambridge Begins Hampshire Street Protected Bike Lane Installation

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.

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Cambridge to Upgrade Hampshire Street Bike Lanes in 2023

Cambridge Officials Propose Protected Bike Lanes on Most of Mass. Ave. By 2026

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City of Cambridge Will Miss Cycling Safety Ordinance Deadline With Porter Square Project Delay

Cycling Safety Ordinance