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Crashes

Boston Police Respond to Two Fatal Crashes Within 12 Hours

A photo taken from an elevated vantage point of a bulldozer parked in a bike lane with a bucket full of white plastic bollards.

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Bicycling

MassDOT, Boston Temporarily Remove Bike Lane On W. 4th Street Bridge for Paving Project

Tremont Street in the South End. In the right foreground is a newly-installed median island paved in bricks and ringed by a granite curb and topped with an orange construction barrel. In the background a pedestrian crosses the street among more construction barrels. On the right, a bicycle rider passes in the opposite lane. Historic brick rowhomes line both sides of the street.

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Vision Zero

Flynn Flam: City Councilor Complains Bike Lanes Make It Hard to Visit South End Library That’s Been Shuttered for 3 Years

Two pedestrians cross a crosswalk in a wide street with a potholed concrete median. The street is lined with new mid-rise buildings, about 8 to 10 stories tall.

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Street Design

Boston Will Build Another New Curb-Protected Bike Lane On Harrison Ave. Next Year

Several cars speed through a wide multi-lane intersection underneath a concrete highway viaduct. On the left edge of the photo are signs for I-90 and I-93. On the right edge, a woman crosses several lanes of traffic in a crosswalk.

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Cement Truck Driver Kills Man In Wheelchair In Boston’s South End

A man rides a Bluebike towards the camera in a separated bike lane that runs between the sidewalk (left) and a row of parked cars (center). A row of flexible-post bollards in the foreground divides the bike lane from moving traffic. The street is lined with multi-story buildings.

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Protected bike lanes

Eyes On the Street: Back Bay’s New Bikeways

Orange construction barrels surround a newly-constructed median island surrounded by parked cars on the left and moving vehicles to the right. Two pedestrians are stepping off the island to cross the street, which is lined with multi-story apartment buildings. In the distance on the horizon are visible the Prudential Center and other skyscrapers in Back Bay.

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Eyes On the Street: Some Curb Appeal In Dorchester and the South End

A pedestrian crosses Tremont Street in a new crosswalk. In the foreground is a newly-installed median island, about the size of a parked car, that is paved in bricks and ringed by a granite curb. To its left are two lanes for two-way car traffic; to its right is an asphalt-paved bike lane, and a second curb at the right edge of the photo delineates the street's sidewalk. A smaller granite curb island is located at the far side of the crosswalk, and two other pairs of islands in a similar configuration protect the crosswalk on the opposite side of the intersection. Historic brick rowhomes line both sides of the street. In the distance is a church steeple.

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Eyes On the Street: Portions of New Tremont St. Protected Bike Lane Are Ready to Ride

Realigned curbs under construction at the intersection of Tremont Street and West Springfield Street in Boston's South End.

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Eyes On the Street: Protected Bike Lane Construction in Roxbury and the South End

A bicyclist rides on a rutted four-lane city street at dusk.

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Physically Protected Bike Lanes to Replace Car Lanes on Tremont Street

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