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More Bluebikes Coming Soon: City of Boston Plans 100 New Bikesharing Stations Across the City
Editor's note: this article is an edited City of Boston press release.
August 12, 2024
Empty Spaces, Empty Promises Lie Beneath Downtown Boston’s Crummiest Sidewalks
Downtown Boston's "areaways," or vaulted sidewalks, are places where the privately-owned basements of historic buildings jut out into the public right-of-way of city streets.
November 4, 2022
Boston Plans Wider Sidewalks, Protected Bikeway for State Street Downtown
During a virtual public hearing in the fall of 2020, city officials said that the project was expected to go under construction in 2021. The project now looks unlikely to get underway until 2023 at the earliest.
June 13, 2022
MassDOT to Transfer Control of Downtown Greenway Streets Back to City of Boston
MassDOT's petition to transfer the streets back to the city's control was approved in a meeting of the Boston Public Improvements Commission on Thursday.
February 18, 2022
City Unveils Proposed Designs for State Street in Downtown Boston
Crosswalks will be shortened, sidewalks will be expanded, and bicyclists will get an upgraded connection – including a proposed protected intersection where State Street meets the I-93 Surface Road.
October 28, 2020
How Did the North End’s Car Owners Steal a Public Playground?
An overlooked parking lot in the North End is technically a public park.
July 30, 2020
Eyes on the Street: Downtown Crossing’s New Bus and Bike Lanes
Washington Street in Downtown Crossing has been transformed from a traffic jam into a street that sets aside most of its space for bikes and transit users.
July 7, 2020
City Wants You To Weigh In: What’s the Best Way To ‘Connect Downtown’?
On Thursday evening, the City of Boston’s Transportation Department revealed conceptual designs for pedestrian improvements and high-quality bikeways across the Common and downtown Boston at an open house for its “Connect Downtown” project.
March 6, 2020
Car-Free State Street Is A Possibility In City Reconstruction Project
On Thursday, planners and engineers from the City of Boston installed a pop-up park on State Street in downtown Boston to solicit ideas and feedback from passerby about a planned reconstruction project that would completely rebuild the street between the Old State House and the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
October 31, 2019
