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Tag Archives: Massachusetts Avenue
My letter to the Globe about the Kurmann fatality
I’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
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Tagged Anita Kurmann, bicycle right hook, Boston, Boston Globe, crash, fatal, Kurmann, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Avenue, right hook
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Harvard Bridge connection to the PDW path: proposed improvement
Let’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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Sheet of ice draws praise from advocates
The headline of the Boston Globe article with this picture is “Snowbank becomes accidental hero for area cyclists”. The shiny area in the bikeway is meltwater from said snowbank. When the temperature drops below freezing, the meltwater becomes a sheet … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, bicycle lane, bicycle right hook, bike lane, Boston, Boston Globe, Cambridge, collision, crash, cycle track, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Avenue
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Pushback on Cambridge bicycle plans
Cambridge Civic Journal blogger Robert Winters have posted a thoroughgoing critique of a proposal for a great expansion in the number and mileage of on-street, barrier-separated bikeways. City Councillor Craig Kelley also has raised questions on his blog (and sent … Continue reading
Forcing the right hook at Mass and Beacon
The installation of a separated bikeway on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, leading from the Harvard Bridge to Beacon Street, forces motorists to turn right from the left lane — and establishes as the norm, bicyclists’ overtaking on the right, just … Continue reading
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Tagged Beacon Street, 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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Arlington Center Safe Travel Project update
Arlington Center has presented a major problem for the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway (rail trail) since its opening. For people who are not familiar with the situation in Arlington Center, the rail line passed diagonally through the middle of town, crossing … Continue reading
Mass Ave, Arlington, and two approaches to bicycling
This article is about Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, but at a deeper level, it is about two very different approaches to bicycling. I’ll start by recalling Massachusetts Avenue as it used to be. Massachusetts Avenue was striped with two lanes. … Continue reading
Tagged Arlington, bicycle, bicycle lane, bicycle right hook, bike lane, cycle track, doffin corner, left cross, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Avenue, Minuteman, Minuteman Commuter Bikeway, right hook, safety
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Bike Lane Goes Under
A new version of Google Street View allows views of the same location at different times, very helpful in tracing the history of road projects. The view below of Massachusetts Avenue eastbound, just east of Harrison Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle lane, bike lane, Boston, Harrison Avenue, Massachusetts Avenue
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Boston’s Western Avenue Cycle Track — correcting the public record
According to official and published sources, Boston’s Western Avenue cycle track: is 0.58 miles long was built in 2009, or 2010, or 2011. had no reported crashes in the time of the 2009-2012 Boston Cyclist Safety Report. improves safety, connectivity … Continue reading
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Tagged Allston, Boston, Brighton, cycle track, Harvard, Harvard University, Massachusetts Avenue, sidepath, Western Avenue
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Columbus Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue Follow-Up
[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 … Continue reading