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Bluebike station locations in 2010, 2016, and 2021. When the system launched a decade ago, it primarily served higher-income, whiter neighborhoods in central Boston. However, thanks to new stations, non-white and lower-income residents of these cities and towns now enjoy more equitable levels of access to the bikesharing network.

Inventories Take Stock of Growing Access to Bluebikes, Safer Bike Routes

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 6, 2021 | No Comments

Thanks to system expansions into more diverse neighborhoods, by 2021, non-white residents living in Bluebikes communities are slightly more likely to live near a bikesharing station than white residents.

Portrait of Whitney Zhang of Boston on the Cambridge side of the Mass. Ave. Bridge on Nov. 23, 2021

Mass. Ave. Bridge Users Praise Improved Bike Lanes: ‘I Hope We See More of This’

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 24, 2021 | No Comments

MassDOT plans to leave the cones in place over the winter and evaluate the new layout for permanent implementation next year after analyzing its effects on user safety, bike traffic, car traffic, and bus speeds on the MBTA’s Route 1.

Rendering of the proposed Northern Strand on-street bikeway on South Common Street, approaching Market Street, in downtown Lynn.

MassDOT Makes Plans to Extend Northern Strand Through Downtown Lynn

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 22, 2021 | No Comments

The project would build new two-way, curb-separated bike lanes along the south side of the Market Square roundabout (pictured above), the Lynn Common, and Market Street.

Blue Hill Avenue near Talbot Ave., looking north towards Franklin Park, on the evening of March 5, 2020.

City of Boston, MBTA Win Funds to Transform Blue Hill Avenue

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 18, 2021 | 1 Comment

City officials have estimated that the project would benefit roughly 20,000 bus riders in Dorchester and Mattapan, reduce their collective commuting times by 800 hours every day, and, with less time wasted in traffic, allow the T to make over 100 additional daily trips on existing routes using the same number of buses and drivers.

Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu in front of the entrance to the Forest Hills T station

Guest Column: How Mayor Michelle Wu Can Put Racial Equity in the Fast Lane

By Jonathan Timm | Nov 17, 2021 | No Comments

The Mayor doesn’t control the MBTA, but she can make Boston’s transit system more equitable from day one.

The new section of the Cochituate Rail Trail in Natick opened earlier this year, and connects the village of Saxonville in Framingham to Natick Center.

Travel Guide: Wayland’s Aqueducts and the New Cochituate Rail Trail

By Juliana Cherston | Nov 6, 2021 | No Comments

I initially stumbled on the Cochituate Rail Trail in Framingham by chance last year. Since then, two substantial bridges over major roadways were craned in, and earlier this fall, the trail’s new extension into Natick Center officially opened to the public. It is now possible to ride a very enjoyable route from Boston to Natick […]

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