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Google always routes me along Quincy Shore Drive rather than staying on 3A when traveling between the Neponset and Weymouth. It's usually a few minutes faster despite the extra length since it acts as a de-facto waterfront expressway. I could see a Quincy that actually embraces its urban...

The Lowell City Council approved the Volkswagen dealership: http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_30637496/lowell-city-council-oks-gervais-lot-expansion There are some soft commitments to keeping trail options open, and the City Manager says he is confident that a rail trail will still work...

There was an old parking-protected bike lane on Western Ave, but the parking was removed to make way for construction jersey barriers where the bike lane used to be. Later the bike lane was reinstalled with cones for separation, signifying that the city still intends to keep a protected bike...

Photo enforcement can help- NYC uses static cameras to enforce bus lanes at known problem spots, and San Francisco has cameras mounted to at least part of the bus fleet for random spot enforcement.

The Brookinses filed an appeal to the judge's dismissal of the Art Park lawsuit. http://missionhillgazette.com/2016/12/02/brookinses-file-appeal-of-art-park-site-lawsuit/ 2+ years later and one my my favorite proposed projects hasn't broken ground. Hopefully the appeal moves faster than the...

I posted a list of upcoming bike infrastructure projects early in 2016, and updated it a couple times over the year. We've now passed most of the traditional end of construction season markers, so time to take stock. Here's a list of what opened this year, what seems like it still might open...

From Ari's napkin math in the comment section, this is almost looking affordable:

Re: 8-10 Waldo Street Coolidge Corner Brookline Yet another vote for good density, but nasty form and materials. They're going to get massacred if they take that in front of the Brookline public. Unless they're playing seven dimensional mah-jong and are sharing an intentionally bad design that...

Has anyone seen any coverage of the bus lane? Curious how it's going but can't be arsed to head up to Everett on my way in to work. Picture and quote from the mayor:

Everett's one week bus lane trial started today:

Yeah, the city presented on it last month. It's a quick build project meant to be installed in the spring so almost certainly no protected intersections, hard curbing, or bike signals. The Streetmix cross-sections below are the only designs that I have seen, and they show flex-posts on one side...

WBUR has a great piece on a pumped-storage hydroelectric station carved into Northfield Mountain: http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2016/12/02/northfield-mountain-hydroelectric-station These will only become more important as peaky sources like solar and wind make up more of the electrical system.

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade The missing piece of information for me is how many Fairmount Line riders are heading to the Seaport versus heading to jobs downtown or are transferring at South Station to the red line. I suspect that the latter two destinations are much more important, and that...

Cambridge is going to install two short stretches of flex-post separated bike lane this month. One will be next to parking in Central Square and one without parking at Harvard Law: Nothing particularly innovative or impactful, but if this winter test helps them get past not-invented-here...

Belmont's decades-long Community Path process continues on, and a Concord Street sidepath option is not just still on the table, but is now ranked higher than the rail-with-trail option: http://bloggingbelmont.com/2016/11/safety-must-come-first-on-the-community-path/ I think calling the...

Everett is going to test a bus lane on Broadway during the morning rush all next week, then using what they learn to design a more substantial pilot bus lane to install in the spring: http://www.cityofeverett.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=375

Why Melnea Cass and why now? I suspect it's because the Melnea Cass Reconstruction Project has old federal earmarks sitting around losing purchasing power. They were probably requested back when this was a BRT project.

U Mass just acquired a bunch of materials relating to the Columbia Point projects and its conversion into Harbor Point. They have two documentaries and were given the rights to post A Decent Place to Live by the author. See...

Advocates are raising alarm bells over Gervais Volkswagen in Lowell expanding their parking lot, which would threaten a future trail along the River Meadow Brook between the Concord River Greenway and the Bruce Freeman Trail. I’m not sure I completely understand the geography, but this appears...

Weymouth just opened another section of road through the former Naval Air Station and current Union Point development. "Patriot Parkway" includes what are probably the first suburban parking protected bike lanes in the state: