Recent content by grand_junction

I think this is a fair critique. That being said, building this as an overpass locks us into having an overpass on that section for decades. A surface road can be calmed, lane reduced, or eliminated entirely in the future without heavy construction, in contrast to an overpass. If Boston is...

Yeah I haven't explored every nook of that bike path, but the section from Perkins to Bynner on the Jamaicaway side is quite dark, and is the easiest legal way to get through there without doing any street stretches. Past Longwood/Brookline Ave, one side is unpaved and I'm pretty sure they're...

D Really fantastic to see these get completed. There's a lot of low-hanging fruit across JP that I hope the city (and DCR 🫤) tackle next, especially SW Corridor connections and crossings. On a related note, I recently took the Jamaica Pond/Riverway bike path to Fenway after dark. Has anyone...

Oh, I fully agree on paving, that's an enormous oversight on so many of the projects in Boston

Quickbuilds in Cambridge are great, and they're really well done. That being said, from a technical/design perspective, they're basically identical to what Boston has done on Cambridge St NB, South Huntington, etc--just flex posts and paint, no digging or curb reconstruction. And despite this...

Yeah, when did this start? I hardly ever bike in this area but I do find myself driving there on occasion, but every time I do it feels like the project has stagnated, last time I was there they did some of the most aggressive milling/raised castings that looked brutal to bike on

The road is in need of a proper bike path extension from Jamaica Pond all the way to Forest Hills here--it would stitch a currently disconnected part of the Emerald Necklace together and a proper connection to the Southwest Corridor would be huge. But at DCR's pace and priorities here, I'm not...

It's very frustrating--the city has incredibly low-hanging fruit on these corridors that would make them much safer and accessible for anyone who wants to bike to take them, and they drag their feet on it. The intersection issues could be fixed by leading/trailing turns and signal separation, as...

This is on brand for Somerville PD given their recent stint of pulling over cyclists for biking safely through walk signals rather than going with auto traffic. Really bad victim blaming mentality here, why not put these on car windshields instead?

The goal of a safe bike corridor on Mass Ave has come a long way, but truly falls apart with the way any of the intersections are designed--the Mass+Huntington one is bad, the Comm Ave one is bad, the Columbus one is bad. At least you can join the SW corridor from Mass Ave SB ahead of Columbus...

The Comm Ave stuff there is one of my least favorite pieces of bike infrastructure (if it can even be called that) in the city, it drives me nuts. You're on the right and then shift left for the Charlesgate intersection and then back to right heading into Kenmore, and if you're trying to cut...

Remarkable amount of talk about climate resilience, mode shifting, bike and pedestrian transport, while underscored by a design that's going to still include over 1200 parking spaces, as quoted. If union square is built up as proposed (between this and USQ) , there needs to be a titanic amount...

Between the Allston Viaduct, the Cape bridges, the Tobin, and other small and large projects, we're poised to spend billions upon billions to shore up the state and support car infrastructure over the next 50-100 years while simultaneously being faced by a more present risk of climate disasters...

I know it's been mentioned before, but it's crazy they're sticking with over 400 parking spaces here. Traffic in the fenway is already absolutely nuts, and double so during games--encouraging more driving there will make it even worse. I'm sure it's a concession to residents worrying about...

Yeah, it rubbed me the same way, and it indicated to me that the author(s) hadn't spent much actual time getting around the city on a bike. I guess if you travel by car primarily in the city (and spend a lot of time in traffic), it will seem like the city has prioritized bikes, but spend any...