Will Protected Bike Lanes Fit on Blue Hill Ave?
It’s been decided: Blue Hill Ave will have center running bus lanes. Whether it will have protected bike lanes is yet to be determined, and it depends heavily on whether they can fit without sacrificing mature trees, parking lanes, or traffic capacity. This set...
Improving the Mass Ave / Memorial Drive Intersection
With a new intersection layout and revised signal timing at Mass. Ave. and Memorial Drive, through traffic can be reduced to a single lane per direction, creating space for new bike lanes, a bus lane, and protecting bikes from a heavy right turn flow.
Poor Signal Phase Coordination Results in 4-Minute Pedestrian Delay at Forest Hills
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...
Mass Ave (Boston) @ Newmarket Square: Intersection Design for a Road Diet
Providing a protected bike lane, or cycle track, along “Mass Ave South” — that is, Mass. Ave. from Melnea Cass Blvd to Columbia Rd (Edward Everett Square) is critical for Boston’s bike network. This creates a traffic engineering challenge...