Opinion: Safe School Transportation Has A Place in the Next Infrastructure Package
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Will the Biden infrastructure plan address how our students get to school?
Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Walking
Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual
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A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards.
New ‘Controlling Criteria’ Will Require Sidewalks, Bike Lanes In State Road Projects
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The newly-adopted controlling criteria for bike, pedestrian, and transit facilities lay out minimum standards to help ensure that all roadway users are considered from the beginning of a project's design process.
Boston Council Discusses Ideas to Improve Sidewalk Snow Clearance
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Councilor Kenzie Bok, who represents Back Bay and Mission Hill, requested the hearing before the Council's Committee on City and Neighborhood Services after a large Nor'easter last December left some of her constituents housebound for days.
Plan for Franklin Park Would Ban Cars From Circuit Drive
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"We want to elevate multimodal routes for bikes and pedestrians," said Lydia Gikas Cook, a landscape architect working on the plan, on Wednesday.
