Boston’s New Design Guidelines Aim for Safer, Greener Streets
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"We are committed to not only making our streets safer, but greener and more resilient,” said Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
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Cambridge Repeals All Minimum Car Parking Requirements for New Buildings
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The new zoning rules have been in the works since April, when co-sponsors Burhan Azeem, Quinton Zondervan and Marc McGovern passed a policy order calling on city staff to draft new zoning language that would eliminate minimum parking requirements from city laws.
MassDOT Calls Harvard Bridge Road Diet 'Extremely Effective,' Will Make Changes Permanent This Fall
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MassDOT will re-stripe lanes and add flexible-post bollards to make the changes permanent later this fall.
An Inside Look at Federal Highway Officials’ Efforts to Encourage Safer Streets
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The annual conference of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) conference in Boston earlier this month offered a sort of homecoming for Stephanie Pollack, the former leader of MassDOT who left for Washington in early 2021 to lead the Federal Highway Administration in President Biden’s administration. Pollack’s return to Massachusetts coincided with the […]
Advocates Hope D.C.’s Proposed Right-On-Red Ban Will Inspire National Reform
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The nation's capital is poised to become the second major city in the United States to repeal a dangerous law that allowed drivers to make right turns at red lights — and some advocates believe other communities are overdue to follow.
Feds Finally Using Highway Money to Tear Down Highways
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“This stretch of I-375 cuts like a gash through the neighborhood, one of many examples I have seen in communities across the country where a piece of infrastructure has become a barrier,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.
Adaptive Cycling On the Harborwalk With Charlestown’s Riders Club
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For six months out of the year, staff and volunteers, mostly recreation therapists, loan out adaptive bikes and take participants for guided rides along Boston’s Harborwalk.
State Data Show Uber and Lyft Drivers Were Involved in Over 1,000 Crashes in the City of Boston Last Year
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A state compilation of Uber and Lyft data from 2021 data indicates that those companies' drivers were involved in 2,267 crashes across Massachusetts last year. Nearly half of those crashes – 1,098 – occurred in the City of Boston.
Photos: A Construction Tour of Somerville’s Community Path and New Light Rail Line
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During last week’s NACTO conference in Boston, attendees streamed out of the Hynes Convention Center each morning for “walkshops” that offered tours of some of the region’s pedestrian, bike, and transit infrastructure. One of those walkshops offered a hard-hat construction tour of the Somerville Community Path Extension, which is nearing the end of its construction […]
Mayor Wu Announces Major Expansion of Boston’s Bike Network
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At a press conference in Roxbury this morning, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced that the city would undertake a major expansion in the city’s network of separated bike lanes, with a goal to put 50 percent of the city’s population within a 3-minute walk of a protected bike lane within the next three years. “We […]
Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco
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Smoking, once a celebrated totem of American culture, is increasingly an ostracized habit of the marginal few. Getting there, though, took deliberate vision, coordinated efforts, and persistent policy trial and error over decades — and those efforts reveal a partial roadmap for breaking our country’s similarly dangerous addiction to cars.