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Both can be true - we can be courteous to people walking accidentally in our separated bike lane AND we can nudge people towards looking both ways before they cross it. I'm pretty sure most people are not maliciously standing in the bike lane, they just aren't used to the culture of biking being...

I've found that just ringing the bluebike bell is enough to get people to politely step out of the way. Having a protected bike lane doesn't mean you will always have the right of way and you will be able to ride non-stop. We can all do our part to fight the "helmetless, out-of-control...

Remember that improving frequencies should do more to improve ridership than just splitting the 8-car hourly train into two 4-car trains. More frequent trains will make the system more useful as an alternative to driving. But it seems like running 4-car double deckers with a couple trains a day...

Given the current financial cliff the MBTA is facing, I'd rather they conserve the money they have to run more service during peak daytime hours (and actually get bus & CR service back up to pre-covid peaks).

I think considering that most 104 riders are getting on the Blue Line inbound.. this isn't necessary.

Interesting case of a temporary construction closure in Kendall Square in Cambridge. Curb-to-curb ROW is reduced to about ~23 feet, which is enough space for about two car lanes and not much else. Pretty sure every other municipality in the greater boston area would've just made this two car...

This is probably the boldest project in cambridge so far, as far as % of parking spaces lost. Main st/hampshire st/cambridge st preserved about half of the spots, but broadway is currently the predominant east-west boulevard for cars. I think this is going to face decent opposition and it's...

There needs to be some disincentive to personal car pickups/dropoffs. They've added $5 airport fees to ubers and made them drop off in central garage, but for some reason if someone's picking you up they can drive right up to the terminal curbside for free and clog all the roadways up. Add more...

looking like a nice width with another nice 5' buffer. Hopefully this lays the ground work to build concrete curbs or planters in the buffer space in the future.

A similar one at the intersection of broadway and ames in Kendall Square, Cambridge. Who the hell is waiting for walk signal just to cross this 8-foot-wide off-street bikeway? Traffic signals are for cars, and when you don't have cars, you don't need traffic lights.

So there were no plans to restripe the bridge to give up one of the northbound lanes so that bikes could have some separation? This very much seems like a great opportunity to discourage SOV traffic into cambridge and prevent cars from Storrow eastbound from cutting over to use Memorial.

Sorry to clarify.. I agree with that point completely.. the only reason that these safety projects raise rents is that they add a viable alternative to driving. People are so damn desperate to have a viable alternative to driving and being stuck in traffic, that it's worth hundreds more in rent...

Blue Hill Ave is going to look like somerville if this project goes in fully as designed. And with it, will come the gentrification and rising rents.

Blue Hill Ave redesigns for center-running bus lanes include a whole host of protected bikeways and intersections. Great to see full-depth rebuilds finally getting it right...

I'm also really curious what we can do to save transit. With the funding shortfall it seems like we would have to live with no weekend CR, all buses cut to 30-min or worse frequency, and all heavy/light rail at a 15-min frequency. Raising fares is not an option. Congestion tolling seems...

I thought the documentation and diligence on repairs was so poor that the track has actually been in poor condition for a decade and they were just running trains over it at full speed with no knowledge of that.

Awesome progress. The real test will be how the major intersections look after the redesign, however. Separated lanes aren't so useful if it requires traversing a 5-way intersection of 3-lanes of cars each (with sharrows) just to reach them. Looking specifically at Beacon st & cambridge, harvard...

Part of the issue is these still look like asphalt paths, and this is confusing since most asphalt paths people are allowed to walk on. The red asphalt in the netherlands makes it very clear what space is for cars, walking, and bikes.

Yes this. This is a great opportunity to push back against the narrative of "we need someone to die in order for change to happen" and accelerate a full review of all the different chokepoints on the bike path, not just this one. The entire stretch past the BU bridge to River St is uncomfortably...

It's good to see some of these plans separate the multi-use path from the 5' dirt walking/jogging path in some sections. Every new re-design should necessitate separating the two and removing car lanes (if necessary) to create the space. If we learn from the best bike cities in europe, reducing...