Christian MilNeil
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Eyes On the Green Line: Somerville’s New Community Path Is Coming Together
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The new Community Path Extension in Somerville is beginning to look like a usable trail, with new light fixtures and a base layer of pavement in place.
MassDOT to Transfer Control of Downtown Greenway Streets Back to City of Boston
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MassDOT's petition to transfer the streets back to the city's control was approved in a meeting of the Boston Public Improvements Commission on Thursday.
The T’s Zero-Emission Trolleybuses Are Headed for the Scrap Heap
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The T wants to begin renovations on the North Cambridge garage, which currently houses the 35 electric trolleybuses that serve the 71 and 73, within the next year in order to support an all-new fleet of battery-electric buses by early 2024.
City of Boston Proposes Safety Improvements for Mattapan Square
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To improve safety - particularly for the thousands of transit riders who pass through the square - the City of Boston's Transportation Department is proposing to close the wide right-turn slip lane in front of the Mattapan trolley terminal, widen sidewalks to reduce crosswalk distances, and add a new crosswalk across the Blue Hills Parkway to provide more direct access to the T station and the Neponset Greenway from the neighborhoods to the west.
DCR Issues One More Call for Feedback on Arborway Redesign
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A DCR spokesperson told StreetsblogMASS that a timeline for implementing the proposed changes in a construction project hasn't yet been determined.
It’s Official: Boston, MBTA Announce Three Free Bus Routes for Mattapan and Dorchester
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Mayor Wu joined MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak this morning to announce a formal agreement to make three bus routes in Dorchester and Mattapan fare-free for a two-year period, starting next month. “The three bus routes that the City of Boston has been working on in collaboration with the MBTA – the 23, the 28, […]
New Trails We Can Look Forward to in Central and Western Mass. This Year
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There are so many new trail projects in the works across Massachusetts that we had to split up our annual preview of new trails into two articles. Yesterday we offered a rundown of five new off-street multi-use pathways that are expected to open to traffic in eastern Massachusetts later this year. Today, we’re looking at […]
New Trails We Can Look Forward to in Eastern Mass. in 2022
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From the Berkshires to Boston, construction crews are putting the finishing touches on a dozen new off-street biking and walking paths that are expected to open to traffic in 2022.
Boston City Council Considers Expanded Municipal Sidewalk Snow Removal
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"As a city that prioritizes and is proud of the fact that a lot of our people move around on foot, or on public transit, and on bicycles, we have to have a snow clearance program that takes that into account, and it's something that has been done in other cities," said Boston City Councilor Kenzie Bok.
MassDOT’s Complete Streets Philosophy Got Buried Under Massive Snowbanks This Weekend
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StreetsblogMASS asked MassDOT about its sidewalk snow removal policies, and an agency spokesperson made it clear that the agency generally doesn't consider itself responsible for clearing the sidewalks along the roadways it builds and maintains.
Natick’s New Sidewalks Look Suspiciously Like A Road Widening
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A repaving project that affected several narrow residential streets in downtown Natick is causing some headaches for residents, because motor vehicle owners are mistaking the project’s new asphalt sidewalks as new on-street parking areas. “People are parking right in the sidewalk literally at the foot of my front steps, and we can’t get out (of […]
MBTA Board Updates: Bikes on Commuter Rail, Fare Changes, Budget Updates
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Minor changes are coming to the T's fare policies, but advocates are still waiting to hear the agency's plans for a broad-based low-income fare.