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  • Background on the River Street and Western Avenue bridges; public hearings

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    [Note: major changes to this intersection occurred following this post. I don’t take credit for initating them.] I thank Jessica Mink for posting a notice on the Massbike Boston announcements list about the public hearings on the River Street and Western Avenue bridges. I repeat the notice below. Concerning conditions where the PDW path crosses…

  • Comments on Arlington Center Proposal

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    I attended the Wednesday, January 12 meeting about closing the gap in the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway in Arlington, and I have submitted the written comments that follow. But first, some links: The proposed design options for the Minuteman path are described here: http://www.arlingtonma.gov/Public_Documents/ArlingtonMA_DPW/projects/ArlCtrSafeTravel/ACST_MemoPres11212011.pdf Adam Auster’s excellent report on Wednesday night’s public meeting is here: https://tinyurl.com/ArlMtg…

  • Boston Red Light Flub, Watertown Win!

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    Boston has been installing traffic-signal actuator loops that don’t work for bicyclists, and sometimes not even for motorists. Installing the right kind of loops doesn’t cost any more — it’s merely a question of cutting a different set of slots in the pavement and laying a different pattern of wires in those slots. Traffic signal…

  • Comments on the River Street and Western Avenue bridges

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    I ride the River Street and Western Avenue frequently on my way between Waltham and Cambridge. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation plans to reconstruct these bridges. The roadways need repair, and so do the sidewalks, which connect the paths on each side of the river. But also, there are many issues with connections…

  • Massbike, root of all of Boston’s problems?

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    On an October 9, 2009 Dallas Observer newspaper Web posting of a news article about bicycling advocacy turmoil in Dallas [archived], Jason Eric Roberts, a Dallas-area bicycling activist, had posted a comment which attracted my attention. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009, I e-mailed him, quoting the comment: Jason had a rather jaundiced view of bicycling…

  • Metrowest report is online again.

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    In 1993, I conducted a survey of the western suburbs of Boston under a contract from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management (now part of the Department of Conservation and Recreation) and the Cerntral Transportation Planning Staff.  The project report was posted for several years on the Web site of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, but…