Recent Streetsblog posts about Bicycling

Saturday: ‘Celebration of Life’ Ride Aims to Bring Black Men Together on Bikes

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 23, 2020 | No Comments

Black men and other men of color are being invited to reflect, mourn, and heal together in a “Celebration of Life” bike ride through Roxbury this Saturday. Organizer James Adius Pierre, a lifelong Cambridge resident, says that the ride is inspired by the summer’s unrest and the August 28 anniversary of the March on Washington. […]

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The New American Legion Bikeway

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 23, 2020 | No Comments

This week, Boston Transportation Department crews are busy painting a new roadway layout on American Legion Highway that will add a new 2-mile-long link in Boston’s growing network of protected bike lanes. Your StreetsblogMASS editor took a ride on the street on Monday morning to check out the progress. Even though more work remains to […]

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DCR Proposes Significant Road Diet Along the Arborway

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 22, 2020 | No Comments

On Wednesday evening, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) presented preliminary designs for a major renovation of the Arborway in Jamaica Plain that would convert multiple motor vehicle lanes to parkland and fill a missing link in the Emerald Necklace with new bicycle and pedestrian paths. The DCR’s Arborway Improvements Project has been […]

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App Maps Cities’ Walkable Neighborhoods

By Kea Wilson | Oct 21, 2020 | No Comments

A new tool can help you advocate for your cities to cultivate the walkable amenities that are missing, as well as create safe routes to reach them.

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Safest Block on Broadway is a Construction Zone

By Roger Rudick | Oct 20, 2020 | No Comments

Oakland finally follows Dutch/Danish best practices by placing the construction barrier between moving cars and the bike lane

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Newton Scrubs A Bike Lane From Washington Street, But Others Are In the Works

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 19, 2020 | No Comments

In the face of vocal opposition, City of Newton officials are removing a short-lived bike lane that was recently painted on Washington Street between West Newton and Newtonville, but the city’s safe streets advocates are hoping that a better, more protected version could be installed next year, when the city is expected to pilot a […]

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