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Category Archives: Boston
Dummer yet
TweetLet’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 … Continue reading
Posted in Boston
Tagged bicycle right hook, bike lane, Brookline, cycle track, Dummer Street, Essex, Essex Street, Massachusetts, MassDOT, right hook, safety, sidepath
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Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston petition on Change.org
TweetOne 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Boston
Tagged bicycle, bicycle lane, bicycle right hook, Boston, Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, NACTO, right hook, safety, sidepath
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My letter to the Globe about the Kurmann fatality
TweetI’ve read the Op-Ed piece by Andrew Fischer and Alan Wright, “Killing Bicyclists should be a crime” in the Sunday, January 28 Globe. I agree with Wright and Fischer that a charge of involuntary manslaughter against the trucker in the … Continue reading
Posted in Boston
Tagged Anita Kurmann, bicycle right hook, Boston, Boston Globe, crash, fatal, Kurmann, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Avenue, right hook
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Bicyclists always had the right, the Globe got it wrong
TweetThe Starts and Stops column in the Metro section of the Sunday, June 10 2012 Boston Globe, and in Boston.com, included a discussion of whether bicyclists are required to ride in bike lanes, under the subheading “Bikers get the right” … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Boston
Tagged bicycle, bicycle lane, bicycle right hook, bike box, bike lane, Boston, Boston Globe, Commonwealth Avenue, Massachusetts
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Harvard Bridge connection to the PDW path: proposed improvement
TweetLet’s look at how well bicycle routes around the Boston end of the Harvard Bridge (Massachusetts Avenue bridge over the Charles River) might be improved. Here is a Google maps overview of the area. There are two special bicycle routes … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Boston, Uncategorized
Tagged bicycle, bicycle lane, bike lane, Boston, Bowker, Bowker Overpass, Cambridge, Harvard Bridge, Mass Ave., Massachusetts, Massachusetts Avenue, MIT, Paul Dudley White, PDW path, ramp, Storrow Drive
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Drainage Failure on Causeway Street
TweetI took the photo below around 10 PM on January 5, 2017 looking west on Causeway Street in Boston from in front of North Station. Here’s a link to the location in Google maps. The default view in Google Maps … Continue reading
Posted in Boston
Tagged bicycle, Boston, Causeway Street, CHB, Connect Historic Boston, cycle track, drain, drainage, ice, Lomasney Way, rain, sidepath, snow, Staniford Street, water
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My comments on the North Washington Street Bridge project
TweetThe comments below were addressed to Patricia Leavenworth, Chief Engineer at MassDOT. ATTN: Bridge Project Management, Project File No. 604173 Dear Ms. Leavenworth: I attended the 75% design about the North Washington Street bridge project on October 19, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Boston, Uncategorized
Tagged 604173, AASHTO, Atlantic Avenue, bicycle, bicycle lane, bike lane, Boston, bridge, Causeway Street, Charles River, Charlestown, cycle track, Massachusetts, MassDOT, North Washington Street, sidepath
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Gillooly’s presentation
TweetDeputy Commissioner James Gillooly’s presentation about the planned separate bikeways on Commonwealth Avenue is online at the URL below. I am preparing a version synchronized to his talk about it at the 2015 Moving Together conference and will announce that … Continue reading
Posted in Boston
Tagged Allston, bicycle, bicycle lane, bike lane, Boston, Boston University, Brighton, collision, Commonwealth Avenue, crosswalk, cycle track, Massachusetts, right hook, safety, sidepath
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For a real People’s Pike
Tweet“People’s Pike” is a group of citizens with concerns about the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s I-90 Allston Interchange project, the main goal of which has been to replace the deteriorating Massachusetts Turnpike viaduct. The People’s Pike group is concerned mostly … Continue reading
Posted in Boston
Tagged 606320, Allston, Beacon yards, bicycle, bike lane, Boston, Boston University, Harvard, Harvard University, I-90, Massachusetts, Turnpike, West Station, Western Avenue
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The Globe Screws Up on Nighttime Safety
TweetThe Boston Globe has published an article titled “Survival Guide for Running and Biking in the Dark.” This picture appeared with the article: you need it to understand my comments. The article addresses issues of retroreflector placement and motion, while … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, Boston, Boston Globe, lights, night, reflectors, retroreflectors, safety, visibility
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