The MBTA’s recent call to create more dedicated bus lanes reflects a fundamental reality: in many congested road segments, a large share of the people are hidden away in buses, many of them standing. Where the data prove high bus ridership, it is common sense to shift road resources towards the buses.
Roads and Traffic
128, alewife and fresh pond parkways, arsenal street corridor, belmont center, blanchard road, bowker overpass, cambridge street and allston i-90 interchange, comm ave, core capacity planning, longfellow bridge, mount auburn street corridor study, storrow tunnel, trapelo road
Public Meetings: Allston I-90 Interchange Project
From MassDOT: As many of you are aware, MassDOT’s project team for the I-90 Allston Interchange Improvement Project has been working to assemble the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Report or DEIR. The DEIR will be filed at the end of November and will be officially noticed in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ …
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Mount Auburn Street Corridor Public Meeting: Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017
From DCR: The Department of Conservation and Recreation invites you to attend a public meeting scheduled for Wednesday, December 13, 2017, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. at the Russell Youth Community Center, located at 680 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, to present and obtain comments on a preliminary design for a short-term alternative (primarily focused at the …
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Traffic Ahead
Developers tend to focus only on the nearby traffic consequences of their own project and to portray the consequences as manageable through local road improvements. In fact, the rising congestion that we are experiencing is the cumulative result of development all across the region.
Reminder: Longfellow Bridge Closures
From MassDOT: Reminder: Longfellow Bridge Closures and Shuttles Replace Red Line Trains between Park Street and Kendall/MIT over a Series of Weekends Beginning September 29 Bridge Access Maintained for Bus Shuttles, Emergency Vehicles, Bicyclists and Pedestrians Project work is weather dependent Due to the Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation Project, shuttle buses will replace Red Line trains in both …
Arsenal Street Corridor Study – Final Report
From MassDOT: The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has released the Final Report for the Arsenal Street Corridor Study MassDOT’s Arsenal Street Corridor Study in Watertown has developed and analyzed alternatives that are intended to improve transportation conditions on Arsenal Street between Galen Street and Birmingham Parkway. The study focused on vehicular, bicycle, pedestrian, and …
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