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WEB3 days ago · A Driver Killed Two Boston College Hockey Stars – But Media Coverage Is Missing the Bigger Story “There are big systemic problems in the way that we organize our streets, in the ways that we invest in infrastructure," says Thomas DeVito, national director for Families for Safe Streets.
MassDOT Calls Harvard Bridge Road Diet 'Extremely Effective,' …
WEBOct 24, 2022 · MassDOT has deemed a pilot road configuration that reduced the number of car lanes and widened bike lanes on the Massachusetts Avenue bridge a success, and is making plans to make the new roadway layout permanent by painting new lanes, adjusting traffic signals, and installing flexible-post bollards in the next few weeks.
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WEBSep 23, 2024 · SUV Driver Kills Bicyclist On Memorial Drive Bike Path in Cambridge. The state's Department of Conservation and Recreation, which owns Memorial Drive, had previously received serious warnings about safety hazards at the site of the killing.
The StreetsblogMASS 2021 Year In Review - Streetsblog …
WEBDec 29, 2021 · One of the unique benefits of editing StreetsblogMASS is that I'm frequently able to meet and write about leaders who care deeply about the Commonwealth's communities and their future, and are working, often successfully, to make them better.
An Updated Guide To Boston’s Allston/I-90 Megaproject
WEBApr 24, 2024 · What advocates are watching. Bike, pedestrian and transit advocates stress that there's a lot to like about the Allston Multimodal project. A public "task force" of several dozen stakeholders has been meeting regularly and has already managed to improve the state's proposal in significant ways.. But there are still some unresolved issues that advocates are watching as the project converges on ...
Eyes On the Street: I Survived Worcester’s New Kelley Square
WEBMay 4, 2021 · When the StreetsblogMASS website launched in the spring of 2019, one of the original three stories on the home page was about Worcester's Kelley Square, and a MassDOT plan to completely rebuild the seven-way intersection with a peanut-shaped roundabout. Two years later, that project (pictured above) is mostly complete. This past winter, I took my bike to Worcester to try navigating the new ...
After Short-Lived Ban, Kei Trucks Get the OK In Massachusetts
WEBSep 25, 2024 · A Honda Acty kei truck (foreground) and a mid-2000s Ford F-150 pickup truck. One of these models is involved in thousands of fatal crashes every year in the U.S. – and the other was banned in Massachusetts earlier this year for allegedly being “unsafe.”
Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2023 - Streetsblog Massachusetts
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Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2021 - Streetsblog Massachusetts
WEBStreetsblogMASS launched in the summer of 2019, and in the two-and-a-half years since then, our audience has grown almost four-fold. A big part of that growth in readership …
Bluebikes Celebrates 25 Million Rides With $25 Credits
WEB11 hours ago · The following brief is a lightly edited version of a Bluebikes press release. At some point during the day on Wednesday, someone took the 25-millionth ride on the Bluebikes regional bikesharing system. Since its launch in summer 2011, the Bluebikes system has expanded to a network of 4,500 bikes …