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The Climate Emergency

Climate Chief Wants MassDOT To Start Treating the Climate Emergency Like an Actual Emergency

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’

A rendering of a proposed high-rise lab building on Brookline Avenue in the Fenway shows proposed new two-way bike paths (lower right) that would provide a protected connection between the Fenway neighborhood to Longwood, via Brookline Avenue, and to the Riverway. Courtesy of the BPDA.

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Bicycling

Protected Intersection Could Bridge Critical Bike Network Gap on the Fenway

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Bus lanes

State Agencies Seek to Transform the Lynnway With New Bike Path and Bus Rapid Transit

Paul Dudley White Path near BU West Campus

Baker Budget Portends Changes For Boston’s Waterfront ‘Parkways’

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MassDOT

Responding to Fatal Crash, MassDOT Will Carve Up a Car Lane to Make Space for Bikes on Craigie Bridge