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Guest Column: It’s Time to Make Hyde Park Ave. Safe for Everyone
"A walk to school or the corner store should not feel like a life-or-death decision."
October 14, 2025
Driver Causes Yet Another Life-Threatening Crash On Boston’s Hyde Park Avenue
Hyde Park Avenue ranks among the city's most dangerous streets, but the Wu administration has repeatedly delayed planned safety improvements along the corridor.
September 29, 2025
Wu Won’t Fix Hyde Park Ave. Safety Hazards in Upcoming Paving Project
"It’s been proven that that area is deadly for pedestrians, and a mess for people in cars too, so let’s fix it up,” says City Councilor Ben Weber.
August 14, 2025
Guest Column: Lethal Hyde Park Avenue Needs Changes, Not More Meetings
Editor’s note: Advocates for safer streets in the Boston neighborhood of Hyde Park delivered the following letter to Boston City Hall on Friday. In addition to the 7 co-authors in the byline, 709 Boston residents added their names to the letter, and hundreds of them offered their own personalized notes about safety hazards they’d experienced on Hyde Park Avenue. StreetsblogMASS is republishing the letter with the authors’ permission.
January 24, 2025
Stuck In A Feedback Loop: Wu Admin Delays Hyde Park Avenue Safety Improvements
After a driver struck and killed Glenn Inghram outside Forest Hills station this fall, dozens of Forest Hills residents organized to mourn and demand immediate safety improvements to Hyde Park Avenue, the four-lane highway that slices through their neighborhood.
December 12, 2024
Boston Officials Will Adjust Traffic Signals At Fatal Crash Scene In Forest Hills
The city's Chief of Streets promises "improving safety is non-negotiable" as the city plans for a more robust redesign of Hyde Park Avenue.
October 25, 2024
Forest Hills Residents Petition for Safer Hyde Park Avenue After MBTA Bus Driver Kills Their Neighbor
On Saturday, an MBTA bus driver ran over Glenn Inghram, who later died of his injuries, in a crosswalk outside of the Forest Hills MBTA station's lower busway.
October 16, 2024
Here’s the MBTA’s Bus Lane Wishlist for Its New ‘High Frequency’ Bus Routes
"MBTA's Transit Priority Vision corridors are identified based on service offering (bus network redesign frequency), social benefit (existing bus and passenger delay), and passenger experience."
October 23, 2023
Boston Starts Outreach For Hyde Park Ave. Bus and Bike Improvements
Planners from the City of Boston and the MBTA held their first open house on Tuesday evening in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood to solicit ideas for "complete streets" and transit-priority improvements to Hyde Park Avenue, a major transit corridor and one of the only north-south routes into the neighborhoods of Hyde Park and Readville.
February 17, 2020