Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Jamaica Plain

Good2Go electric cars parked at Roxbury Community College near Columbus Ave. in Boston

Good2Go Brings Equitable, All-Electric Carsharing to Roxbury

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 29, 2021 | 1 Comment

Good2Go is offering its cars from three locations for now: the Roxbury Community College parking lot (pictured above), a City of Boston municipal parking lot at 737 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, and a parking lot at the new Bartlett Place affordable housing development near Nubian Square.

Plan for Franklin Park Would Ban Cars From Circuit Drive

By Christian MilNeil | Mar 10, 2021 | No Comments

"We want to elevate multimodal routes for bikes and pedestrians," said Lydia Gikas Cook, a landscape architect working on the plan, on Wednesday.

DCR Proposes Major Road Diet on the Arborway

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 22, 2020 | 1 Comment

In a virtual meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 21, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) presented preliminary designs for a major renovation of the Arborway in Jamaica Plain that would convert multiple motor vehicle lanes to parkland and fill a missing link in the Emerald Necklace with new bicycle and pedestrian paths. The DCR’s […]

DCR Plans to Remove Car Lanes, Add Buffered Bikeways on the Arborway

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 21, 2020 | No Comments

The state Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has announced plans to replace motor vehicle lanes with wide buffered bike lanes along three roadway sections of the Arborway in Jamaica Plain as part of a suite of short-term safety improvements. The DCR’s “Arborway Parkways Improvement Project” is examining possible new designs for the mile-long stretch […]

3368 Washington rendering credit RODE Architects/BPDA

Brewery Landlord Sues to Block Housing for the Homeless, Because Parking

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 11, 2020 | 1 Comment

The Jamaica Plain landlord of Turtle Swamp Brewing is arguing that his tenant’s “ability to find parking” on Washington Street is more important than housing over 200 homeless people. That’s one of the arguments in a lawsuit filing from Monty Gold, the owner of Turtle Swamp’s building at 3377 Washington St., who wants to overturn […]