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The mayor and city manager of Somerville and Cambridge are announcing that they intend to put $50 M and $25 M of their town funding respectively into the Green Line Extension: http://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/67215 MAPC is calling it "unprecedented", but having towns kick in some of...

Thanks for that great write up F-line. Dover passed their town meeting item on Monday to "allow the Board of Selectmen to enter negotiations with the MBTA, current owners of the abandoned railbed, to acquire a lease, easement or license for the property." I foresee more meetings and reports...

The designs for "Phase 2A" of Comm Ave from are looking pretty good. Once built these are going to be the best separated bike lanes in the state and possibly the best in the country as of today, although better designs will probably come out between now and the two and half years it will take to...

The FMCB is considering whether to increase the scope of what looks to be routine service planning into a total bus network redesign: http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Board_Meetings/ServicePlanDiscussion05022016.pdf

I recognize that abutters to new trail projects have very real and valid concerns about privacy and security – I was on the Upper Falls Greenway in Newton early this spring and could see right into people’s yards and houses. The trail is up on a high embankment and there isn’t a good barrier up...

Three updates on the Bay Colony Rail Trail, which I haven't heard much about outside of F-line's post on Dover rail trail politics: First, Newton opened just under a mile of trail at some point this winter as the Upper Falls Greenway. It's a wide stone dust surface that ends halfway across the...

Good to hear that, the path from Alewife station to Concord Ave may be the worst piece of bicycle infrastructure in the region. The intersection with New Street is supposed to get some attention this construction season, but the whole corridor is really problematic.

Hubway is focusing its expansion this year on Roxbury and Dorchester, with ten stations to be installed in the pink area: . The Hubway network already goes down that far, but it's very sparse. This is all infill to bring station density up to par with other residential parts of the region...

There's a summary on a recent Boston City Council hearing on transit signal priority. Apparently it's already up and running for a few intersections along the Silver Line (4 and 5 I assume) and for the 57...

Livable Streets published a great piece about the DCR's history as a highway department and its recent shift towards multimodal travel. http://www.livablestreets.info/parkway_danger_zones_can_dcr_turn_the_corner?utm_campaign=smb_4_28_16&utm_medium=email&utm_source=livablestreetsalliance...

More details on the project that would be built at the Shaws site right next to Meadow Glen, 490 units with parking for 781 cars: http://medford.wickedlocal.com/article/20160427/NEWS/160426983

There's some discussion of the Everett transit plan over in the bus thread: http://www.archboston.org/community/showthread.php?t=4993&page=10

I don’t think we know what exactly the original plan was – only the 75% plan is up on the project page. American separated bike lane design has advanced quite a bit since early 2014 and hopefully the 100% design has incorporated some of those lessons. The project page says "completion of the...

Yeah, that must be the Beacon Street project. The design eliminates one side of parking in order to fit in bike lanes and a sidewalk where there isn't one already. Lots of ugly public process, gnashing of teeth, and dueling petitions for less than a mile of protected bike lane.

Slides from all of the Green Line redesign public meetings are up: http://www.greenlineextension.org/documents.html March 2nd is station cuts, March 23rd is bridge cuts, March 30th is a mix including the vehicle maintenance facility and abutter mitigations April 13th is the community path.

You might be thinking of Somerville's protected bike lanes on Beacon Street, that project is part of a total reconstruction of the road that starts next week. Somerville is planning protected bike lanes for Broadway up and over Winter Hill, but it seems like they're on hold while they do a...

Someville's Union Square plan has some discussion on local streets and one-ways. They frame it as individual neighborhoods trying to keep out traffic that simply diverts onto the next street over. After decades of this we have the mess that we do now, with bike circulation and connectivity hit...

triple-posting but whatevs. Cambridge is proposing a $10 M bond to design and build the next section of the Grand Junction path from Broadway on east to the Somerville city line. Any idea what they are anticipating will bring the hard+soft cost of the path up to the equivalent of $16 M / mile...

The first of two bridges needed for the missing link in the Neponset river path went in recently: http://www.dotnews.com/2016/canopy-walk-bridge-joins-greenway-mattapan This is the one over tracks by Mattapan station, there's one more bridge to go from the north bank to the south bank of the...

But wait, there's more! There may be no money for operations, but there is $4.5 M in federal funding to buy a new ferry for year-round service to Lynn. Lynn is still seeking $650,000 to run the existing service this season.