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Category: Locality

  • Meng Jin, and Charles River Dam Road

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    MIT student Meng Jin died as he rode up to and past the corner in a bike lane on Museum Way, to the right of a truck that turned right onto Charles River Dam Road. That tragedy has led to a call for barrier-separated bike lanes on Charles River Dam Road, a non sequitur, in…

  • Connect Historic Boston complaint

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    Charles Denison, who is generally in favor of infrastructure projects, expresses his dislike of the part of the Connect Historic Boston project on Causeway Street.

  • Boston Bike Party

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    I rode a Boston Bike Party ride. The Boston Bike Party is more or less a friendlier version of Critical Mass — not in-your-face confrontational, but still they held a parade without a permit, corking intersections, riding through neighborhoods with bike trailers pulling sound systems playing rock music at deafening volume — three different ones…

  • Seen in Lexington

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    I have not yet ridden on the stretch of Massachusetts Avenue where bike lanes have been placed to the right of parked cars. I missed that opportunity when my bicycle had a flat tire and I couldn’t fix the inner tube — so I Ubered up to Ride Studio Café to buy and install a…

  • Dummer yet

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    Let’s take a look at the intersection of Essex Street with Dummer Street in Brookline over the years, with the aid of Google Street Views. Essex Street leads south from Commonwealth Avenue opposite the Boston University Bridge — see Google map. In 2007, Essex Street had parking on the west side, which resulted in wrong-way…

  • What’s with Winter Street, Waltham?

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    Today I rode on Winter Street in Waltham, which runs around the south and west sides of the Cambridge Reservoir. A few years ago, bike lanes were installed on much of Winter Street, starting a quarter mile west of West Street in Waltham and extending (with a couple of interruptions) to the Lincoln town line.…

  • Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston petition on Change.org

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    One Joshua Grolman has published a petition on Change. org asking for “protected bike lanes” on Centre Street, the main street through the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston. Centre Street is two-way, narrowed by parallel parking on both sides everywhere except at special locations — bus stops, turn lanes, approaches to intersections etc. While the…

  • Non-responsive signal actuators in Waltham

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    Why are we still seeing traffic-signal actuators which won’t trigger the signal for bicycles or motorcycles? I have made a short video of a Waltham intersection, Bedford and South Streets. This illustrates the problem which a bicyclist or motorcyclist faces with many traffic-signal actuators. Another issue at this same intersection is that many westbound motorists…

  • Fatal crash of November 9, 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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    This morning’s fatal crash was reported by State Police as another in the string of tragic right-hook collisions which have become the largest cause of bicyclist fatalities in the Boston area. Once again, a bicyclist was crushed by a large truck which turned right.[ Update: the cyclist was Meng Jin, a male graduate student at…

  • Riding Lexington Street, Waltham, July 4, 2015

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    It should be noted that bike lanes have been installed on much of the stretch of Lexington Street shown in the videos. Videos showing the new conditions are in preparation. Two videos, for now: A demonstration of lane control in a slow, uphill bicycle ride on a suburban speedway, with light, fast traffic. How controlling…