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A Google Street View snapshot of the Fellsway in Somerville, showing a snowbank burying the rightmost lane at its intersection with Mystic Avenue.

Fellsway/Mystic Avenue sneckdown screenshot

Bicycling

‘Sneckdown’ At Somerville’s Most Dangerous Intersection Could Become Permanent

The new Magoun Square Green Line station under construction, seen from Lowell Street. This station is on the longer Medford branch of the Green Line Extension, which is expected to open later this year.

Magoun Square Green Line station under construction in Feb. 2022

Eyes On the Green Line: Somerville’s New Community Path Is Coming Together

Somerville Community Path

Accessibility

New Trails We Can Look Forward to in Eastern Mass. in 2022

Wellington Circle in Medford

Street Design

MassDOT Shares Early Concepts for Taming Wellington Circle

A memorial to Kevin Dumont on Mystic Avenue, near the crosswalk where a hit-and-run driver killed him in August 2019.

Memorial to Kevin Dumont

Vision Zero

With MassDOT’s Promised Safety Upgrades in Limbo, More Carnage on Somerville’s Mystic Ave.

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Advocacy Opportunities

Election Day Roundup: Meet the Candidates, Make a Plan to Vote

The Northern Strand Trail extension in Everett, looking south towards the Encore Casino and the Mystic River

Eyes On the Trails: More Mystic River Greenways In the Works

An architect's rendering shows two bridges crossing a river. The illustration of the new bridge, on the right, shows a bridge with large arches swooping over the water. The illustration is superimposed on a photograph that shows an existing, plainer railroad bridge on the right.

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Baker Admin Commits Funding for Proposed Mystic Greenway Bridge

Somerville Ave. features sidewalk-level protected bike paths in each direction, new stormwater collection gardens, and improved sidewalks and crosswalks.

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