Archive for March 2012

Breaking News: Casey Overpass to be rebuilt at-grade

Congratulations to all of our volunteers, collaborating organizations and JP’s vibrant neighborhood activist community, Forest Hills will become more inviting to pedestrians and bicyclists, re-uniting the neighborhood with the rest of Jamaica Plain and likely sparking economic development and helping out businesses on Hyde Park Avenue! Secretary of Transportation Rich Davey informed legislators and others…

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Boston Bikes Update and the question of enforcement

This year’s Boston Bikes Update was a big hit. Nicole Freedman, the city’s bike czar, spoke to a packed house of over 400 people at the Central Library last week and talked up the city’s accomplishments making Boston a better biking city, including 142,000 Hubway bike-share trips in 2011, over 1,000 bikes donated to low-income…

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Seaver Street becomes focal point

Roxbury residents spoke up for traffic-calming measures last month at a public meeting to discuss the full reconstruction of Seaver Street by the Public Works Department, and a handful of Boston Cyclists Union members described their own problems with the street, including a notorious blind curve heading toward Blue Hill Avenue amidst high-speed traffic. The…

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Highway Bridge vs Social Bridges

By Anne Lusk, Ph.D. The Casey Overpass has been discussed in the community based on moving traffic of all kinds, livability, aesthetics, personal preferences, and a variety of other motivations. If we can accept that both the bridge and at-grade options move traffic in similar ways, as traffic engineering models have shown us, personal preferences…

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Creative volunteers pull eyeballs to the Union

By Patrick Kelleher-Calnan Most of the Boston Cyclists Union’s volunteers are highly visible all summer fixing thousands of bikes, handing out helmets, and getting people involved in community planning processes all over the city, but there are a few you never see who happen to be responsible for how it all looks. They are the…

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