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Category: Boston

  • Bike Lane Goes Under

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    [Note: Google Street View preserves views of the same location at different times, very helpful in tracing the history of road projects. I have provided links to Street View to verify the images I have downloaded and let you move the view around. But on mobile devices, Street View brings up different and apparently recent…

  • I-90 Interchange project announcement

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    Governor Deval Patrick announces commitment to a major expansion in the I-90 Interchange project, 2:40 PM, September 18, 2014, Beacon Yards, Allston section of Boston, Massachusetts. The abandoned rail yards are now a 22-acre wasteland in the middle of the City of Boston. Funding, 1/3 from the Commonwealth, 1/3 from Harvard University and 1/3 from…

  • Boston’s Western Avenue Cycle Track — correcting the public record

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    According to official and published sources, Boston’s Western Avenue cycle track: In reality, In more detail: An 0.1 mile segment, only on the south side, was installed in November, 2010, but parking adjacent to it was only allowed later, perhaps as late as October, 2011. This segment was removed sometime before June 7, 2012. This…

  • Separate but equal

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    3:15 PM, Thursday, August 27, 2014: I’m riding home on the stretch of Western Avenue in Brighton a hundred yards or so short of Market Street. I’m riding outside the door zone of parked cars. This stretch is narrow enough that the City of Boston hasn’t even seen fit to install its usual door-zone bike…

  • Columbus Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue Follow-Up

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    [Note: this post has been updated thanks to Charlie Denison’s correct identification of the direction from which the bicyclist approached the intersection.] This post follows from my previous post about the right-hook collision of a garbage truck with a bicyclist at Columbus Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. The image below is from a Boston…

  • Window dressing

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    I have already described the side skirts on Boston garbage trucks as window dressing. Maybe I should concede a little ground on that, as the cyclist in the most recent right-hook crash merely had severe injuries instead of being killed. [Update, December 2024: I take it back. See photo and explanation below.] To prevent right-hook…

  • My letter to the FHWA about Connect Historic Boston

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    My letter is online.

  • A longer response to Egan

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    [Note, December 28, 2024: Link rot is appalling but the Internet Archive has preserved almost every citation in this post.] This is a more extended response to the letter from Boston’s Chief Civil Engineer responding to my comments about the Connect Historic Boston project. My comments are at https://john-s-allen.com/pdfs/CHB_Comments.pdf and https://john-s-allen.com/pdfs/CHB_2014-03_comments.pdf Mr. Egan’s reply to…

  • Boston Chief Civil Engineer’s reply to my comments on Connect Historic Boston

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    I have discussed my comments on the Connect historic Boston project in an earlier post. Now Boston’s Chief Civil Engineer, Bill Egan, has replied — but actually, his reply is a non-reply. He doesn’t address the issues I raised about messing up — rather than improving — bus and taxi access to North Station. Or…

  • Comments on the Charles River Basin Connectivity Study

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    [Note as of December 28, 2024: plans from 2021 and 2024 propose something very much like what I suggested for the rotatry at North Beacon street in Brighton. See project background page here [archived], and related documents. I have prepared extensive comments on the Charles River Basin Connectivity Study and submitted them for review. I…