by Peter Furth | Apr 7, 2021 | LocalProject
Casey Arborway, at Forest Hills in Boston, is a newly constructed roadway with a lot of good features for bikes, transit, and pedestrians, such as cycle tracks, bike signals, relatively small footprint intersections (for the volume of traffic carried), and a left turn...
by Peter Furth | Mar 10, 2021 | Projects
by Peter G. Furth and Milad Tahmasebi At unsignalized intersections, crossing islands make it so much safer and easier for pedestrians to cross the street. They can also deliver many other benefits, including slowing through traffic, slowing turning traffic, and...
by Peter Furth | Mar 5, 2021 | Blog
Hey, look, there’s a new bicycle signal on Route 9 in Brookline, at the intersection with the Brook House driveway, where they just finished building a new protected bike lane! But wait – do you see what’s crazy in this picture? The cars have a green light; the...
by Peter Furth | Mar 3, 2021 | Blog
Peter Furth, 3/8/2021 Single-track sections are common enough on branch lines, but Old Colony has a single track section on its trunk line, from just north of Andrew Station to Victory Road, a distance of 2.6 miles. It is well recognized that single-track...
by Peter Furth | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog
While all on-site dialogue programs have been canceled in 2020, we will be offering CIVE 4566 and CIVE 4567 as on-line courses during Summer 2. The online format makes it possible for all students to take the courses, whether they applied for a Dialogue of...