streetsblog-mass-logo-alt

streetsblog-mass-logo-dark

lede_post_card_default

lede_post_card_stacked

lede_post_card_featured_post

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero

lede_post_card_featured_posts_sidebar

lede_post_card_highlighted_post

lede_post_card_horizontal_a

lede_post_card_horizontal_c

lede_post_card_related_post

lede_article_featured_16x9

lede_article_featured_3x2

lede_article_featured_flexible

lede_article_content

lede_article_content_wide_width

lede_article_content_full_width

lede_byline_avatar_post_card

lede_byline_avatar_highlight

lede_profile_coral_avatar

lede_logo

lede_logo_banner

lede_logo_footer_banner

lede_logo_simple_header

lede_sponsorship_logo

lede_sponsorship_logo_river_card

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card_logo

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card

Header

Streetsblog Network

Connecting people to information about how to improve walking, biking, and transit

streetsblog-mass-logo

Streetsblog Massachusetts

Support StreetsblogMASS

SB-Donation-500px-wide

Donate to StreetsblogMASS house ad – homepage

River card donations house ad

<p>Got tips? Send them to me via Signal, the encrypted messaging app, at 207-310-0728. You can also follow me on <a href="https://better.boston/@cmilneil" rel="me">Mastodon.</a></p>


PROMO-milneil

Christian MilNeil

An illegally parked minivan blocks both the bike lane and and a sidewalk curb ramp on a multi-lane city street lined with historic masonry buildings.

Illegally parked car in Arlington St bike lane March 4 2025

Protected bike lanes

While Constituents Demand Safer Streets, Boston Is Removing Protective Barriers From New Bikeways

A sidewalk under construction with as asphalt bike path running down the middle. In the distance a new high-rise building rises behind a construction fence.

MassAveParcel12_March2024

Eyes On the Street: In Back Bay, A New Transit Plaza Takes Shape Over the Turnpike

A map of the Boston region highlighting proposed high-frequency bus routes in the MBTA's bus network redesign. Highlighted route segments in green indicate existing bus lanes (including Silver Line's Washington Street through the South End in Boston, Huntington Ave, the Columbus Avenue bus lanes in Roxbury, and segments of Massachusetts Ave. across the Charles River and in Arlington). Pink segments indicate bus priority corridors being planned, including Blue Hill Ave. and Warren Street for the route 28, and Western Avenue in Allston. Yellow highlighted segments indicate "new bus priority needed," on streets like Meridian St. in East Boston and Arsenal St. in Watertown.

BusPriorityVisionMap2023_creditMBTA

Bus lanes

Here’s the MBTA’s Bus Lane Wishlist for Its New ‘High Frequency’ Bus Routes

Orange construction barrels surround a newly-constructed median island surrounded by parked cars on the left and moving vehicles to the right. Two pedestrians are stepping off the island to cross the street, which is lined with multi-story apartment buildings. In the distance on the horizon are visible the Prudential Center and other skyscrapers in Back Bay.

MassAveAtEverettSquare

Bicycling

Eyes On the Street: Some Curb Appeal In Dorchester and the South End

Screen Shot 2022-07-14 at 11.24.51 AM

Truck Driver Kills Cambridge Man Next to Symphony Hall in Boston

MassAveSouthRendering_nearMelneaCass

Boston Begins Construction on ‘Mass. Ave. South’ Protected Bikeway in Dorchester

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

Mass. Ave. at Cambridge City Hall

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

MassAveFlexposts

Building Back Flimsier: Flexposts Replace Concrete Curbs for Mass. Ave. Bike Lanes

Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge

Cambridge Council Recommends Updates to ‘Cycling Safety Ordinance’ to Accelerate Bikeway Projects

Massachusetts Avenue