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Christian MilNeil

A new sidewalk-level bike lane under construction adjacent to a two-lane city street. Cones and construction barrels litter the bike lane. In the foreground is a raised crosswalk next to a traffic signal.

Argenziano School crosswalk

Street Design

Eyes On the Street: Somerville Fits In Some New Bus, Bike Infrastructure Near Union Square

A CargoB cargo bike with a bright yellow bucket in front of the handlebars in the alley outside Aeronaut brewery with a brightly colored mural in the background

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Bikesharing

Streetfilms Test-Rides CargoB, Boston’s New Cargo Bikeshare

A trail though leafy woods leads to a tunnel under a roadway in the middle distance. Three signs stacked vertically on a signpost next to the trail in the foreground read "End / Bruce Freeman Rail Trail / Ahead"

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Trails

MassTrails Program Grants $12 Million for 65 Trail Projects Statewide

A map of Somerville highlighting its "priority bike network" from the city's bike plan. The map highlights busier streets that would receive separated bike lanes – like Broadway and Somerville Ave. – in green, and quieter neighborhood streets that would receive traffic calming treatments to serve as shared bike routes in blue.

SomervilleBikePlanPriorityNetworkMap

Vision Zero

New Somerville Safe Streets Ordinance Mandates 30-Mile Protected Bike Lane Network By 2030

A person riding a bike turns onto a residential street lined with 3- and 4-story apartment buildings and trees blossoming with spring flowers. Along the left edge of the street is a narrower bike lane paved with fresh asphalt and separated from the car lanes with a granite curb.

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Environment

Eyes On the Street: Somerville’s New Garden-Protected Bike Lane

A rainbow-hued image of a person riding a bike in a dinosaur costume in a mountain landscape. The text above them reads "Somerville Bike Kitchen 2024 Bike Pageant - Sunday May 19th 1-5 PM, Aeronaut Somerville, 14 Tyler St., Somerville MA"

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Events

Somerville Bike Kitchen Hosts Its Annual Bike Pageant This Sunday

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Meghan Volcy

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Bicycling

Bay State Bike Month is Off to the Races with Kick-off at Aeronaut Brewing

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This Weekend: A Bike Month Kickoff Celebration in Somerville

A bus stop sign next to a bus shelter where a passenger is waiting shows two bus routes - the 75 to Watertown Yard and the 66 to Harvard Square - next to a yellow clock icon with a "15" in the middle.

Somerville