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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.
Forest Hills Residents Petition for Safer Hyde Park Avenue After …
14 hours ago · On Saturday, an MBTA bus driver ran over Glenn Inghram, who later died of his injuries, in a crosswalk outside of the Forest Hills MBTA station’s lower busway. The homicide occurred just before noon on Saturday. The bus driver was apparently attempting a left out of the Forest Hills busway towards the Arborway at the […]
An Updated Guide To Boston’s Allston/I-90 Megaproject
Apr 24, 2024 · The "at grade" plan would put both highways and rail lines at the river's level. A cross-section of A Better City's at-grade Allston/I-90 proposal near the project's narrowest section, just west of the B.U. Bridge. Courtesy of A Better City. MassDOT is currently spending $86 million to rehab the Turnpike viaduct to keep it standing for a few ...
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 ...
State Police Have Not Arrested John Corcoran’s Killer
Oct 4, 2024 · A State Police spokesperson has informed StreetsblogMASS that the suspected killer in last week's homicide on the Paul Dudley White Bike Path in Cambridge has not been arrested, although their driving license has been suspended. On the afternoon of Monday Sept. 24, the driver of a Mercedes SUV struck and killed John Corcoran, aged 62, of Newton ...
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.
MBTA, Amtrak Warn That MassDOT’s Allston Highway …
6 days ago · Transit MBTA, Amtrak Warn That MassDOT’s Allston Highway Megaproject Could Inflict ‘Significant’ Impacts On Regional Rail. MBTA officials warn that commuter rail service "would cease within weeks" if MassDOT follows through on plans to demolish a critical rail bridge for the Allston Multimodal Project in Boston.
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.
Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2022 - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Dec 27, 2022 · Our ten most-read stories of 2022 weren't necessarily the biggest transportation news stories in Massachusetts this year (those would probably be either the T's unprecedented Orange Line shutdown or the agency's safety management crisis), but they were the stories that managed to capture readers' attention beyond the borders of the Commonwealth.
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 ...