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Reimagined design for Highland Avenue with protected bike lanes

Somerville Council Requests New Design with Protected Bike Lanes for Highland Ave.

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 15, 2021 | No Comments

District Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen said that "I have become increasingly convinced that it is indeed possible - not only possible, but really essential - that we include protected bike lanes on Highland Ave."

A construction project that's expected to be substantially complete later this year is adding physically-separated bikeways, protected intersections, and upgraded sidewalks to Agawam's riverfront and to a new Morgan-Sullivan Bridge across the Westfield River. Courtesy of MassDOT.

MassDOT Is Building a Complete Streets Corridor Through West Springfield and Agawam

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 8, 2021 | No Comments

The projects are noteworthy for their efforts to transform suburban multi-lane roadways into calmer, safer streets that might actually be welcoming to people traveling on foot and by bike.

Porter Square in Cambridge. Courtesy of Google Maps.

Cambridge Starts Planning for Bus, Bike Improvements Through Porter Square

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 5, 2021 | No Comments

Joseph Barr, Cambridge Director of Traffic, Parking, and Transportation, wrote in a memo to the City Council that the city is "in the process of hiring a consultant to support the design of quick-build separated bike lanes along Massachusetts Avenue from Roseland Street to Beech Street through Porter Square."

Bluebikes docked at South Station in downtown Boston.

Bikeshare Systems Expanding to Salem, West Springfield

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 3, 2021 | No Comments

Salem plans to join the Bluebikes system with eight new stations, and West Springfield will join the ValleyBike system with two new docks.

Highland Avenue near Central St. in 2020.

Advocates Press for Protected Bike Lanes on Somerville’s Highland Ave.

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 1, 2021 | No Comments

In a construction project expected to begin later this year, the City of Somerville will rebuild Highland Avenue as well as several adjacent streets as part of its Spring Hill Sewer Separation project.

New flexible-post bollards have been installed on the Massachusetts Avenue bike lanes through the Boston Medical Center campus. The posts replace sturdier concrete barriers that were removed in December after motorists crashed into them. Photo courtesy of the City of Boston Transportation Department.

Building Back Flimsier: Flexposts Replace Concrete Curbs for Mass. Ave. Bike Lanes

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 26, 2021 | No Comments

The Boston Transportation Department (BTD) has installed flexible-post plastic bollards along the Massachusetts Avenue bike lanes through the Boston Medical Center campus, one of the city’s most dangerous street segments, to replace more robust concrete curbs that were removed in December. The entire length of Massachusetts Avenue is part of the city’s “high crash network,” […]

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