Christian MilNeil
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2020 In Review: Our Most-Read Stories This Year
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Thanks for reading StreetsblogMASS this year – we'll be back in 2021.
Photos: Three New Trails To Look Forward To in 2021
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Construction activities have slowed down considerably for the winter season, but three major new trail projects in Boston’s suburbs are poised to open for traffic in early 2021: the Cochituate Trail in Natick, the Cambridge-Watertown Greenway, and the extension of the Northern Strand Trail in Revere, Saugus, and Lynn. State officials stress that these three […]
Meet Peter Cheung, MassBike’s ‘Advocate of the Year’
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If you ride a bike in the Boston area, odds are pretty good you’ve run into Peter Cheung: he’s often leading the pack for large group rides like the Ride for Black Lives and the Boston Bike Party, and he’s also the person behind many of the region’s ghost bike memorials to the victims of […]
Brookline Mulls Bus Lanes For Its Biggest Transit Bottleneck
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The proposal would benefit the town's busiest bus corridor, a heavily-congested bottleneck where three busy bus routes converge near the Boston border.
We Want Your Feedback: Take Our Reader Survey
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We're thinking about how we can grow and improve StreetsblogMASS in the new year, and we want to hear from our readers.
Massachusetts Will Join Conn., R.I. and D.C. in New Transport Cap-and-Trade Program
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e set aside to fund transit, bike, and pedestrian improvements, in order to give New Englanders more options to get around without burning gasoline.
It’s #Sneckdown Season
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Last week’s storm has created major hassles for pedestrians trying to navigate buried sidewalks, but there’s one silver lining: it’s left thousands of “sneckdowns,” places where snowbanks have narrowed down the roadway and forced cars to slow down considerably (a “snow neckdown”). Streetsfilms editor Clarence Eckerson first documented “naturally occurring neckdowns” in 2006. “The snow […]
BTD Backtracks On Safety Improvements For Deadly Section of Mass. Ave.
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The City of Boston has singled out the entire length of Massachusetts Avenue as a threat to public safety: the street is part of the city’s “high crash network,” and has a higher density of crashes that cause injuries to bicyclists and pedestrians than 97 percent of all other city streets.
Biden Admin. Appoints Pete Buttigieg for Sec. of Transportation
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Buttigieg will have a major responsibility in making sure the Biden administration meets its climate goals.
Could Flipping Parking Lots Help End Car Dependence?
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Miami-based startup REEF Technology made headlines last month when it raised $700 million to buy up parking lots and rapidly transform them into a range of more profitable uses.
T Board Approves Scaled-Back Package of Transit Service Cuts
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"We're glad to see them walk back some of the cuts, but we still believe these cuts are rushed and unnecessary," said TransitMatters executive director Jarred Johnson.