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NYC Banished Cars for Buses — Your City Can, Too!
New York’s wildly successful experiment banning cars on a crosstown thoroughfare shows that cities don’t need to dither for years over dedicated bus lanes. The new 14th Street Busway has won over...
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Take Transit to the Airport — Cut the TSA Line
Getting to an airport to catch a flight on time is stressful enough, but cities are introducing incentives for flyers to ditch cars and taxis and take public transit to get there. Riders using San...
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Former Mass Gov. Mike Dukakis: Driving Is For Turkeys
Mike Dukakis feels the same way about government neglect of public transit as he does about the pile of turkey carcasses his neighbors leave him every Thanksgiving — he’s had more than enough of it....
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Three Cities See a Way to ‘Curb’ Traffic
Curb space is the Wild West of neighborhood transportation, a 24-hour battle pitting delivery vans, big trucks serving the internet economy and app-based taxis like Uber and Lyft against entitled car...
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Op-Ed: How Transit Activists Can Win — A Primer
If you’re a transit rider in just about any American city, chances are the service you rely on falls somewhere between not-great and awful. The closest bus may only run once an hour, your train may be...
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Bus Rapid Transit Should Be Built More Rapidly
The Transportation Research Board’s 99th Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. from Jan. 12-16, 2020. Click here for more information. Cities are taking the slow and challenging path to build...
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How Can We Make Sustainable Transportation More Fun?
A few years ago I came across a City Lab story on the hoards of people camped out to use the swings at Boston’s Lawn on D Street, a temporary park geared towards adults, which was created in late...
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Talking Headways Podcast: How to Make a Bus Corridor Great
This week, we’re joined by Lindiwe Rennert, a Boston transit planner, who chats about her work on the Warren Street corridor, the creation of bus priority for the many riders on the corridor, and how...
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Boston Bike Counts Make the Case for Better Bike Lanes on Key Routes
Earlier this summer, the City of Boston published the results of its 2019 bike counts, an annual tally of bike traffic that’s conducted every June and September. And while the city is busy building...
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Boston Has a Choice Between Two Transportation Futures
In this year’s installment of its annual Highway Boondoggles report, U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group warn of billions of dollars in proposed spending on unnecessary highway projects that...
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How to Build a Cheap Homemade Speed Camera
A North End resident caught hundreds of drivers breaking the speed limit with a homemade speed camera, but also found that the majority of Boston drivers drive at speeds under 20 mph, well under the...
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Boston Aims for E-Cargo Bike Pilot in 2022
The City of Boston has engaged a consulting firm to propose new policies and design a pilot program for e-cargo bike deliveries in an effort to reduce congestion and air pollution on downtown streets....
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Bucking National Trends, City of Boston Marks Progress on ‘Vision Zero’
The City of Boston has achieved “consistent and measurable progress” towards its goal of eliminating serious and fatal crashes in the city, but needs to work harder to reduce the overall number of...
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Research Suggests Boston’s New Protected Lanes Boosted Bikeshare Traffic 80...
A new statistical analysis of ridership data from the Bluebikes system suggests that the new Commonwealth Avenue protected bike lanes, which were finished in 2019, increased bike traffic by at least...
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Streetsfilms Features the North End’s Outdoor Dining Streets Transformations
Clarence Eckerson, Jr. was recently in Boston working on some new Streetfilms, and he’s released his first video from that trip: a tour of the North End’s remarkable outdoor dining streets with...
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SEE IT: Boston’s Curbside Eateries are Amazing
Call them “COVID huts” or “streeteries” — but they are saving the restaurant industry while also improving our cities. Our Streetfilms colleague went to Boston earlier this month to see how Beantown is...
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SEE IT: In Boston, Bus Rapid Transit Works
Boston is on a roll. The bus system in the Hub of the Universe is undergoing a long overdue transformation. From redesigning the network to pursuing electrification to completely re-imagined streets...
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Eyes On the Street: A Quick Ride on Boston’s New Transitway
Boston’s new center-running bus lanes are open for business in Roxbury, and they’re already delivering major benefits to pedestrian and transit riders along Columbus Avenue between Franklin Park and...
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Free Passes For Boston’s Main Street Workers Boost Transit, Bluebikes Ridership
An experiment that gave away transit and bikesharing passes to 1,000 employees in four neighborhood Main Street districts across the City of Boston boosted ridership and relieved workers’ financial...
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Boston’s ‘What the Tech’ Series Offers A Field Guide to the Gadgets on Our...
If a bureaucrat invited the citizenry to listen to a short lecture about about photocells, the light-detecting sensors that tell streetlights when it’s time to switch on of off, you might not expect...
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