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The new Twin Cities Rail Trail viaduct over Route 2 in Leominster. Courtesy of the Twin Cities Rail Trail Association.

New Trails We Can Look Forward to in Central and Western Mass. This Year

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 8, 2022 | 1 Comment

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 […]

Joggers on the Somerville Community Path near Davis Square.

New Trails We Can Look Forward to in Eastern Mass. in 2022

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 7, 2022 | 1 Comment

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.

Memorial Drive in Cambridge. Photo by John Phelan, licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 3.0.

DCR Announces Scaled-Back Memorial Drive Road Diet for 2024

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 18, 2022 | No Comments

The latest proposal, as described in the ENF, would reconstruct a 0.8-mile length of Memorial Drive and its multi-use pathways between the Eliot Bridge and the Anderson Bridge (JFK Street).

MassDOT Shares Early Concepts for Taming Wellington Circle

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 6, 2022 | No Comments

Local stakeholders in an advisory working group expressed a desire to see less asphalt and fewer lanes through the intersections in MassDOT's proposed designs.

Meet the New Chief: StreetsblogMASS Interviews Jascha Franklin-Hodge

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 22, 2021 | No Comments

"There’s a lot of traffic engineering that’s very data-driven, but it’s often data-driven in ways that are focused on vehicular movements and speeds and capacity... And sometimes that comes at the expense of asking, ‘What’s it like for a person who’s walking to the bus, and waiting on the corner for that bus?’ We don’t have metrics for that."

A still from the City of Boston's 'What the Tech' video about automated bike counters. Courtesy of the City of Boston.

Boston’s ‘What the Tech’ Series Offers A Field Guide to the Gadgets on Our Streets

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 20, 2021 | No Comments

"Whether they’re feeling positively or negatively about it, the main point is to get more people talking about the use of technology in the public realm."

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