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Four more years! Four more years! (of public process) Construction targeted for 2020

Inman has long been a difficult and stressful spot and everybody knows this. Cambridge voters selected bike fixes in Inman Square as one of their FY17 Participatory Budgeting projects, and several Inman area bike/ped projects are leading in the FY18 round, including this innovative proposal to...

You know what this project needs? More public process...

I posted a set of revised plans in the bike thread a couple months ago: http://www.archboston.org/community/showpost.php?p=261679&postcount=2771 Unfortunately, Naples road is just west of where the plans start. edit: These are only the major changes to the design, not the full set of plans.

Thanks for sharing, I left before the big documents came out at the end of the meeting. The paint-and-post version of protected intersections is going to be really interesting to see in the flesh, I don't think I've ever seen an example of that. The one at Beacon looks good, the one at Comm...

Onrush of driverless cars slows a proposal to add Green Street Garage parking spaces I get that planning infrastructure like a garage is becoming more difficult, but aren't autonomous vehicles still going to need midday and overnight layover space? I'd rather have them out of sight and out of...

Reminder: the Mass Ave meeting is this Wednesday. I'll be there since every single advocacy org and cycling newsletter I've signed up for is putting out the batsignal on this one.

Waltham is putting Lexington Street on a road diet and using the space to create bike lanes and a turn lane, all apparently this year...

Obligatory follow up to the gif: that street has had a protected bike lane for years now, and the city is currently upgrading it from using flexible posts to planters as a barrier. The parallel street one block away becomes bus-only during rush hour, including some BRT-lite routes. Seattle's...

What's up with the labor union concerns? That seems way out of line for a zoning board of appeals.

I recall seeing Government Center station rehab slides showing painted bike lanes on Cambridge Street past City Hall, hopefully those happen once the construction site is cleaned up. Maybe they'll help build support for fixing the rest of Cambridge Street. I am definitely not looking forwards to...

We will soon! The public meeting is June 15th, 6pm at Saint Cecilia Parish on Belvidere Street, and will focus on Beacon Street to the intersection with the Southwest Corridor path: The Boston Cyclists Union says on Facebook that the city still plans to roll out improvements in three phases...

From the outside it seems as if Boston Bikes has been reduced to education, encouragement, events, and handling Boston’s role in the Hubway contract. Vision Zero seems to be the way forward for now, perhaps because the Walsh administration gets to have some ownership of it. At some point this...

Yeah, that's exactly what happened.

GM DeLeo is retiring at the end of June due to cancer, and Shortsleeve will be taking over as acting GM. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/23/mbta-general-manager-frank-depaola-retire/kxAY6uHkU9IBUW1dUzAOmM/story.html?event=event25

Happy Bike to Work Day! Boston lost its bike friendly community designation! Whether this was a snub from the League due to lack of progress in the city or just an error on Boston's part it's still embarrassing. League designations don't mean that much, but they're free and at least the city...

Walk Up Roslindale managed to get a Tufts Grad student team to do a planning study for the proposed Roslindale Arboretum Gateway Path : http://www.walkuproslindale.org/weblog/2016/05/14/community-vision-report-for-gateway-path-complete/ The most exciting thing about the path to me is that it...

Not sure what they're doing now, but the last few times I've ridden by I've seen construction vehicles over near the I-90 ramps. Because I'm only on that path on weekends and occasional evenings I haven't actually seen any construction happening. There are some other parts of the project like...

I can't find the plans and can't remember the whole scope of the project, but work is underway at the River/Cambridge Street intersection with the PDW path. There is going to be a short protected bike lane from the path to the Cambridge Street bike lane, and a signalized crosswalk at the...

I'm starting to feel this way too and have given up on the crazy transit pitches thread here, fun as it may be. The only other electric rail expansion I see as remotely feasible in at least the next 20 years would be Orange to Rozzie Square. Other than that this region is done unless there are...