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DCR Kicks Off Redesign For Arborway In Jamaica Plain

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 21, 2019 | No Comments

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 […]

Planners and members of the public discuss the intersection of Beacon and Arlington Streets, a popular but treacherous bike and walking route for people using the Fiedler Footbridge to the Charles River Esplanade, during a community walk on November 7, 2019. This intersection and others around the Common and Public Garden are being considered for upgraded crosswalks and bike routes in the city's Southwest Corridor Extension planning project.

Planners Soliciting Ideas For Safer Routes Through Downtown Boston

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 12, 2019 | No Comments

Planners from the City of Boston are hosting a series of walks this autumn to kick off planning for new “high-comfort” bike routes and crosswalk upgrades to encourage more people to walk and bike across downtown Boston. The city’s “Connect Downtown” project is studying numerous city streets around Boston Common and the Public Garden, from […]

A rendering of a proposed Mystic River bike and pedestrian bridge, which could connect the Northern Strand multi-use path in the City of Everett to the Assembly Orange Line Station in Somerville. Rendering by AECOM, courtesy of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.

For Priority Trails-To-Transit Projects, MBTA Can’t Get Out of Its Own Way

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 4, 2019 | No Comments

Today’s Boston Globe reports on the ongoing efforts to build a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Mystic River to connect Everett to the Assembly Orange Line stop, and how administrative bottlenecks at the MBTA are hampering the project in spite of broad financial and political support. Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria is extremely eager […]

A group of bicycle users discuss the section of Massachusetts Avenue near the Newmarket MBTA station with City of Boston transportation planners during a group ride on Sept. 18, 2019.

Boston Planners Begin Outreach for Mass. Ave. Upgrades In Dorchester

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 3, 2019 | No Comments

On Saturday, the City of Boston will host its second community walk and bike ride with city transportation planners to discuss safety upgrades to Massachusetts Avenue between Melnea Cass Boulevard and Columbia Road at Edward Everett Square, a corridor that was identified as a top short-term priority for better bike lanes and crosswalks in the […]

The Wayside Trail, part of the Massachusetts Central Rail Trail, passes an abandoned trail station at the Church Street underpass in Weston.

A Network of Rail-Trails Comes Together In Boston’s Suburbs

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 1, 2019 | 2 Comments

This fall, trail advocates and officials are celebrating ribbon cuttings on two significant new trail connections in the suburbs west of Boston: a 2.5 mile segment of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail through West Concord, and a 4.5 mile segment of the Wayside Trail (part of the longer Massachusetts Central Rail Trail, which extends from […]

A rendering of the proposed Ruggles Street improvements illustrate new bike lanes, shortened, raised crosswalks, and increased sidewalk space for pedestrians and bus riders. The planned reconstruction project is scheduled to begin in 2020. Courtesy of the City of Boston.

Ruggles Street Plans Aim for Safer Link From Dudley Square to SW Corridor

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

The City of Boston Public Works Department is finalizing plans to rebuild Ruggles Street, a street lined with affordable housing developments, with narrower car lanes, wider sidewalks and new protected bikeways. The project spans only about 2,000 feet of roadway, but it is bookended by two major transit destinations: the Ruggles T stop and the […]

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