Cambridge Will Ax Two Car Lanes From Harvard Square
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A redesigned Harvard Square will go under construction in June 2020.
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DCR Kicks Off Redesign For Arborway In Jamaica Plain
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The state Department of Conservation (DCR) is kicking off a comprehensive redesign project to improve safety and create a new, separated bike and pedestrian route along the Arborway in Jamaica Plain. At a public meeting at the Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Thursday evening, DCR officials explained that they are about to hire a team […]
MassDOT Allston Plans Would Plant A Highway Over the Charles River
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In order to make room for construction workers, project planners have proposed relocating the Soldiers Field Road and Paul Dudley White bike path to a "temporary" mid-river highway that would remain in place for ten years while the rest of the project is built.
Globe Puts Spotlight On Beacon Hill’s Gridlocked Car Culture
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The Boston Globe has debuted its latest Spotlight report, “Seeing Red,” with a hard look at how state politicians are failing to deal with the region’s burgeoning traffic problems. “Massachusetts is moving in the wrong direction — barely moving at all, in fact — on efforts to reduce congestion. In the last five years in […]
Bus Lanes On Warren Street Could Save Riders Millions of Hours Every Year
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Planners from the Boston Transportation Department’s transit team shared some early concepts to bring bus-priority lanes to Warren Street, a heavily-used bus route that carries over 20,000 bus riders every day, at a public meeting in Roxbury last Thursday evening. To set the stage for the discussion, project planner Lindiwe Rennert shared a presentation with […]
State House Leadership Issues Final Draft of Distracted Driving Bill
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Leaders of a conference committee in the State House have finally submitted a final version of a distracted driving bill that passed by overwhelming margins in the House and Senate earlier this spring, and the bill could face a final vote this week. The bill declares that “no operator of a motor vehicle shall hold […]