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Before Its Teardown, Somerville’s McGrath Highway Could Get A Road Diet
An obsolete six-lane expressway that slices through East Somerville will, by the end of this summer, become a four-lane expressway with wide buffered bike lanes.
February 24, 2021
Somerville Council Requests New Design with Protected Bike Lanes for Highland Ave.
District Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen said that "I have become increasingly convinced that it is indeed possible - not only possible, but really essential - that we include protected bike lanes on Highland Ave."
February 15, 2021
Advocates Press for Protected Bike Lanes on Somerville’s Highland Ave.
In a construction project expected to begin later this year, the City of Somerville will rebuild Highland Avenue as well as several adjacent streets as part of its Spring Hill Sewer Separation project.
February 1, 2021
Legal Settlement Will Restore Carpool Lane and Add New Bus Lane on Tobin Bridge
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has committed to establishing a new bus lanes on the Tobin Bridge and I-93 as part of a legal settlement over its decision to eliminate a carpool lane on I-93 in the spring of 2019.
November 19, 2020
Eyes On the Street: Cambridge Fills A Key Bike Network Gap
Webster Avenue is a short but frequently-used bike route between Union Square in Somerville and Cambridge Street in Cambridge.
November 17, 2020
Photos: Green Line Extension Marks Halfway Point to Completion
MBTA officials announced Thursday that the Green Line Extension construction project is 50 percent complete, and on schedule to open by the end of 2021.
October 2, 2020
Guest Column: It’s Time to Build Resilient Streets for Somerville
In cities across the globe emerging from COVID-19, we have consistently seen a slow return to transit, and a quick return (and even growth) in private car travel. We know that pre-COVID-19, fewer than half of Boston area residents drove to work. We also know that if this ratio were to change due to the crisis -- with people mode shifting to single occupancy vehicles - all of our lives would be impacted in ways both significant and menial, and not for the better.
September 22, 2020
Protected Bike Lanes Coming to Wellington Bridge Over the Mystic
The City of Somerville has announced that it will create new protected bike lanes on the Wellington Bridge across the Mystic River this fall, connecting Somerville's fast-growing Assembly Square district with the City of Medford.
September 20, 2020
T Announces New Bus Lane Projects, Targeting 6 Regional Bottlenecks
The T estimates that, even under reduced levels of ridership during the pandemic, these bus lane projects would benefit over 50,000 riders every weekday.
August 28, 2020
MassDOT Announces $1 Million in Grants for Pandemic ‘Shared Streets and Spaces’
The first round of grant funding will create safer walking routes to schools in Chelsea, a new bus lane in Somerville, and new protected on-street pathways in Lowell.
July 23, 2020
