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Oct 7, 2024 · State Officials Say Work to Improve Safety at Lethal Memorial Drive Crash Site Will Begin On Monday. The state's parks agency will reduce Memorial Drive's speed limit and create more space for the area's busy bike and pedestrian traffic. October 4, 2024. Policing.
Eyes On the Street: Better Bike Lanes For Allston and Brighton
1 day ago · A map highlighting new separated bike lane projects being installed in the Allston and Brighton neighborhoods of Boston in October 2024. Dotted lines indicate existing paint-only bike lanes, and solid lines indicate physically-separated bike lanes and shared-use paths. The three projects are in various stages of completion, but the city expects ...
Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2021 - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Dec 29, 2021 · Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2021. By Christian MilNeil. 11:00 AM EST on December 29, 2021. The Green Line Extension is pictured on a new MBTA map at Ruggles station in April 2021, several months before the line’s opening. Photo by Edward Orde, via Twitter.
Mass. Ave. Bridge Users Praise Improved Bike Lanes
Nov 24, 2021 · Tuesday afternoon's rush hour was bitterly cold, but for the steady stream of bike riders and pedestrians using the Mass. Ave. Bridge, a pilot road configuration that aims to calm motor vehicle traffic by widening the bridge's busy bike lanes helped ameliorate the discomfort of the biting winds sweeping across the Charles River.
The StreetsblogMASS 2021 Year In Review - Streetsblog …
11:01 AM EST on December 29, 2021. New bus platforms, built as part of Boston’s Columbus Avenue center-running bus lane project, provide generous amenities for riders and safe refuges for people crossing the wide street. One of the unique benefits of editing StreetsblogMASS is that I'm frequently able to meet and write about leaders who care ...
Boston Begins Construction on 'Mass. Ave. South
Jun 7, 2022 · On Monday, the City of Boston broke ground on its Massachusetts Avenue Better Bike Project, which will build a two-way protected bikeway along the western curb of Massachusetts Avenue from Melnea Cass Boulevard in Roxbury to Columbia Road in Dorchester.. That segment of Massachusetts Avenue is currently a wide, four-lane street with some on-street parking.
Eyes On the Street: the New Boylston Street Bike Lane In Back Bay
6:30 AM EDT on July 22, 2024. A person riding a Bluebike crosses the intersection of Boylston and Ring Road in the new parking-protected bike lane. Earlier this month, Boston's Transportation Department put the finishing touches on a major new protected bike lane on Boylston Street through the heart of Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.
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Jul 11, 2019 · Our streets are public spaces: they belong to all of us, not just the few who operate the most life-threatening and polluting vehicles. Making the Commonwealth’s streets work better for pedestrians, bikes and transit will make our cities …
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Sep 6, 2024 · A Driver Killed Two Boston College Hockey Stars – But Media Coverage Is Missing the Bigger Story “There are big systemic problems in the way that we organize our streets, in the ways that we invest in infrastructure," says Thomas …
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StreetsblogMASS is a daily news source connecting people from all walks of life to information about how to reduce dependence on cars, promote human-centered, equitable, and environmentally sustainable places, and improve conditions for walking, biking, and transit. Massachusetts has ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks (the state’s largest source of […]