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Four people: a white man wearing a blue collared shirt and tie, a black woman wearing an athletic long-sleeved top, a white woman wearing a pink blazer, and a white man wearing a collared short-sleeved polo shirt, stand behind a Bluebikes bicycle in a brick plaza. Behind them is a row of more bikes parked in a Bluebikes station.

Salem Doubles Its Bluebikes Coverage

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 15, 2022 | No Comments

The new stations will expand Bluebikes coverage into neighborhoods north and west of the downtown area, and supplement existing docks in high-ridership locations like Salem State University and the MBTA regional rail stop.

A bicycle rider enters a bike lane delineated with cones and construction barrels on Columbus Avenue in Back Bay. The bike lane runs along the curb, with a row of parked cars to its left.

Boston’s Exciting Biking Transformation: How the City is Promoting Biking on Multiple Fronts

By Grecia White | Sep 14, 2022 | No Comments

The city isn’t just focusing on new infrastructure: it’s also hosting educational programs, expanding the Bluebikes system, and rolling out new subsidies for e-bike purchases.

Boston Officials Test-Drive New Electric Bikes for Potential Inclusion in the Bluebikes System

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 13, 2022 | No Comments

"We're looking at what it would take to add e-bikes to the Bluebikes system, and I wanted to try out the hardware," says Boston's Chief of Streets, Jascha Franklin-Hodge.

People wearing day-glo vests walk along a paved path that's under construction, with bare soil and riprap on the ground to the left and the Green Line Extension tracks below them to the right.

Photos: A Construction Tour of Somerville’s Community Path and New Light Rail Line

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 12, 2022 | No Comments

During last week’s NACTO conference in Boston, attendees streamed out of the Hynes Convention Center each morning for “walkshops” that offered tours of some of the region’s pedestrian, bike, and transit infrastructure. One of those walkshops offered a hard-hat construction tour of the Somerville Community Path Extension, which is nearing the end of its construction […]

A crowd of people and Bluebikes gathers near Boylston Street

NACTO Comes to Boston

By Grecia White and Christian MilNeil | Sep 8, 2022 | No Comments

While the transportation engineering profession generally has a reputation for neglecting anyone who isn't inside a motor vehicle, NACTO's members are working to change that culture.

Various plantings, green shrubs, and trees on the side of Boston City Hall plaza

A Sneak Peak of Our Newly Accessible City Hall Plaza

By Grecia White | Sep 6, 2022 | No Comments

Last Wednesday, the City of Boston’s Boston Disabilities Commission celebrated the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with a street festival on City Hall Plaza, which is nearing the finish line on a renovation project that will deliver major accessibility upgrades. Music filled the air as folks meandered through the resource fair and […]

A map of Boston's current bike network and new infrastructure announced by the Wu administration on Tuesday. Bold orange lines indicate new protected bike lanes and yellow lines indicate new contraflow bike lanes on one-way streets. Dark blue lines indicate protected bike lane projects already in progress, including Tremont Street in the South End and Ruggles Street in Roxbury.

Mayor Wu Announces Major Expansion of Boston’s Bike Network

By Christian MilNeil and Grecia White | Sep 6, 2022 | No Comments

At a press conference in Roxbury this morning, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced that the city would undertake a major expansion in the city’s network of separated bike lanes, with a goal to put 50 percent of the city’s population within a 3-minute walk of a protected bike lane within the next three years. “We […]

Map of the Davis and Teele Square neighborhoods in Somerville. Holland Street, College Avenue, and Broadway form a triangle north of Davis Square, with Holland running northwest from Davis to Teele Square, College Avenue running northeast from Davis to Powder House Square, and Broadway running east-to-west at the top of the triangle from Teele to Powder House, a few blocks south of the Tufts campus..

Somerville to Build Protected Bike Lanes Near Davis Square After Fatal ‘Dooring’ Crash

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 2, 2022 | No Comments

Holland Street is scheduled to be repaved this fall; until this week, the project would have created a single paint-only bike lane next to parked cars, similar to the street layout on nearby Broadway.

Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco

By Nick Sementelli | Sep 2, 2022 | No Comments

Smoking, once a celebrated totem of American culture, is increasingly an ostracized habit of the marginal few. Getting there, though, took deliberate vision, coordinated efforts, and persistent policy trial and error over decades — and those efforts reveal a partial roadmap for breaking our country’s similarly dangerous addiction to cars.

A derailed Red Line car blocks the tracks at the JFK/UMass station on June 11, 2019. Photo courtesy of the Boston Fire Department.

Final Safety Inspection Report Focuses on Hiring, Workforce Challenges at the T

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 31, 2022 | No Comments

On Wednesday, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) published the final report from its detailed “safety management inspection” and gave the T a list of 53 tasks to repair what the federal government called a “pattern of safety incidents” that include train crashes, derailments, and runaway trains. “The associate administrator of the FTA who presented the […]

Temporary fencing lines the sidewalk on the DCR-controlled approach to the Beades Bridge. Google Street View imagery suggests that the temporary fencing has been there for nearly 8 years. Photo by Tony Dutzik.

It’s Not Just the T: Analysis Finds Unusually Large Backlog in Commonwealth’s Bridge Repair Needs

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 31, 2022 | No Comments

Roughly one in nine bridge crossings in Massachusetts occurs on a bridge where engineers have found serious problems with weight-bearing structural elements that need repair or replacement, according to a new analysis by MassBudget. In MassDOT’s comprehensive bridge inventory, out of 7,880 bridges in the Commonwealth, 644 bridges have been classified as “structurally deficient,” a […]

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu posted a selfie of herself and several other members of a bike convoy that rode to downtown Boston from Roslindale Square on August 24. Courtesy of Mayor Michelle Wu.

Mayor Wu, Bike Commuter

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 30, 2022 | No Comments

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who ran for Mayor last year on a “Green New Deal” platform, has ridden her bike to work three times this month, and is taking notes about how the city can improve bike infrastructure on the 7-mile route between her home in Roslindale and City Hall. The mayor, who has been […]

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