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City of Newton Plans Protected Bike Lanes, Road Diet For Washington Street
The City of Newton is soliciting feedback for the design of new protected bike lanes and other traffic-calming safety improvements along a 0.75-mile stretch of Washington Street between West Newton and Newtonville.Washington Street is currently a four-lane roadway that runs alongside the Worcester Line regional rail tracks and the Massachusetts Turnpike. Long stretches of Washington Street lack sidewalks along its southern curb, where there is a well-worn track in the dirt between the street and the railroad embankment.
December 15, 2023
Provincetown Plans to Carve Up Its Freeway For a New Car-Free Path
Provincetown, located on the tip of Cape Cod, is already a renowned vacation destination in part because of its tight-knit, walkable downtown, where cars must creep at a slow walking pace behind throngs of pedestrians every summer, and its network of paved paths in the nearby Cape Cod National Seashore.
May 25, 2023
MassDOT Calls Harvard Bridge Road Diet ‘Extremely Effective,’ Says Changes Will Become Permanent This Fall
MassDOT will re-stripe lanes and add flexible-post bollards to make the changes permanent later this fall.
October 24, 2022
MassDOT Shares Early Concepts for Taming Wellington Circle
Local stakeholders in an advisory working group expressed a desire to see less asphalt and fewer lanes through the intersections in MassDOT's proposed designs.
January 6, 2022
A Reading Road Diet Moves From Pilot to Permanent
According MassDOT data, the removal of one traffic lane from Route 28 did not affect travel times or traffic volumes on other streets nearby, and early data suggest that fewer drivers are causing crashes.
August 31, 2021
Newton Scrubs A Bike Lane From Washington Street, But Others Are In the Works
In the face of vocal opposition, City of Newton officials are removing a short-lived bike lane that was recently painted on Washington Street between West Newton and Newtonville, but the city's safe streets advocates are hoping that a better, more protected version could be installed next year, when the city is expected to pilot a road diet on the same street.
October 18, 2020
Cambridge Will Ax Two Car Lanes From Harvard Square
A redesigned Harvard Square will go under construction in June 2020.
December 5, 2019
Kendall Square Is Getting Rid of Another Car Lane
In the midst of a development boom that will bring thousands of new workers and residents into the neighborhood, the City of Cambridge is continuing its policy of accommodating growth by re-allocating street space from private vehicles to cleaner, more efficient modes of transportation with a planned road diet on Main Street between Broadway and the Longfellow Bridge.
September 26, 2019
