Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Vision Zero

A rendering of a proposed high-rise lab building on Brookline Avenue in the Fenway shows proposed new two-way bike paths (lower right) that would provide a protected connection between the Fenway neighborhood to Longwood, via Brookline Avenue, and to the Riverway. Courtesy of the BPDA.

Protected Intersection Could Bridge Critical Bike Network Gap on the Fenway

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 29, 2022 | No Comments

A city spokesperson tells StreetsblogMASS that there are "plans to have a two-way cycle track on the south side of the Muddy River crossing (Brookline Avenue between Park Drive and Fenway), as well as a two-way cycle track connecting north along Park Drive to the Fenway Path through the Landmark Center site."

A Google Street View image of Broadway in Somerville near the site where Stephen Conley crashed. The roadway includes two parking lanes against the curbs, two travel lanes for cars, and two green-painted bike lanes in between the parking and moving vehicle lanes. In the middle distance is a traffic light at the intersection of Packard Avenue. The bike lanes do not continue beyond that intersection.

Mayor Pledges ‘Immediate’ Action After Somerville Resident Killed In Door-Zone Bike Lane

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 16, 2022 | No Comments

Somerville police believe that the victim, identified as Stephen Conley, 70, of Somerville, was traveling westbound in the painted bike lane on Broadway when a driver in the adjacent parking lane opened the door of his Land Rover into Conley’s path.

Looking east up Cambridge Street towards Government Center near the intersection of Joy Street. A wide brick-paved median dominates the foreground view; to the sides are two lanes of car traffic in each direction. A bike rider climbs the hill on the right edge of the photo.

Deference to Car Traffic Compromises Key Missing Link in Boston’s Bike Network

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 1, 2022 | No Comments

When it comes to designing safer streets to make that future a reality, the city is binding itself with assumptions that it won’t actually meet its climate goals, and sacrificing public space that could otherwise be dedicated to bus lanes or protected bike lanes in order to accommodate pre-pandemic volumes of motor vehicle traffic.

The corner of Massachusetts Avenue (right) and Huntington Avenue, where a truck driver struck and killed a person riding a bicycle on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Courtesy of Google.

Truck Driver Kills Cambridge Man Next to Symphony Hall in Boston

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 14, 2022 | No Comments

Massachusetts Avenue, a major north-south bike route between Cambridge, Back Bay, the South End, and Dorchester, features a paint-only bike lane at the site of the crash.

An uninjured driver stands next to the SUV she flipped over while driving on Route 1 in Peabody on March 18, 2020. Photo courtesy of the Massachusetts State Police.

Guest Column: What if We Held Transit and Traffic to the Same Safety Standards?

By Caitlin Rogger | Jul 6, 2022 | No Comments

Editor’s note: this piece originally appeared in Greater Greater Washington and is being reprinted here with permission. Washington, D.C.’s Metro announced in mid-June that it would bring some 7000-series trains back online over the coming weeks, bringing relief to riders from months of painfully irregular service. After nine months of investigation, operator training, and changes […]

Why French and US Road Deaths Went In Dramatically Different Directions

By Yonah Freemark | Jul 6, 2022 | No Comments

Here's how American states and cities can look to the French example for approaches to improve road safety.

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