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  • New Product — ShelBroCo Magic Green Paint

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    Here’s a high-tech product which deserves to be used in every new bicycle infrastructure project. The linked page gives a thorough description and videos!

  • Commonwealth Avenue victory?

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    I submitted the following comments in response to a Boston Globe article reporting on proposed bikeways on Commonwealth Avenue. [archived] Real solutions to bicycle and pedestrian mobility in the Commonwealth Avenue corridor can be found by connecting parallel streets, an initiative which ties in well with the proposed Allston Turnpike Interchange Project. I have commented…

  • Commonwealth Avenue and the BU campus

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    The Boston Cyclists Union and Livable Streets are promoting cycle tracks for Commonwealth Avenue. The bicycle industry’s Astroturf advocacy organization, Peoplefor Bikes, is asking people to sign a petition in support of them. Not a good idea. Cycle tracks on Commonwealth Avenue won’t prevent the most common car-bike crashes (crossing and turning collisions, doorings —…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Massachusetts Motorized Bicycle and “Motorized Scooter” Law — a Mess

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    [Note — these comments have been rendered partially obsolete by legislation enacted in 2023. Laws for bicycles now apply to electric bicycles with a top assisted speed of 20 mph. Electric bicycles with a top speed of 28 mph (Class 3 as usually defined) are still defined as motorized scooters as of this writing in…

  • My letter to the FHWA about Connect Historic Boston

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    My letter is online.

  • 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…

  • Is This Street Wide Enough?

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    I have posted a video of a group of avid recreational cyclists riding on Hampshire Street in Cambridge, in the middle of the day. You may view it in glorious full-screen high definition here. Is This Two-Lane Street Wide Enough? from John Allen on Vimeo. The cyclists in this video are riding on a stretch…

  • Comments on Connect Historic Boston

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    I’ve posted extensive comments on the Connect Historic Boston project. I am concerned about: safety issues; increase in bicycle travel times and congestion of motor traffic; the project’s degrading rather than improving access to North Station; its being designed as if Boston were a tourist attraction rather than an urban center, while on the other…