by Chuck Tanowitz | Nov 8, 2012 | bicycles, traffic |
Village14 regular Adam Peller was just telling me about an intriguing idea – let’s call it the Highlands Link. The state’s Department of Transportation (DOT) is working on plans that will extensively change traffic patterns in the southern side of...
by Adam Peller | Aug 27, 2012 | traffic |
Remember red and yellow pedestrian signals? Nationwide standards eliminated these decades ago, with no distinctive replacement to alert drivers to a pedestrian crossing… until now. Recently, a new signal called a Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon was approved for use...
by Jerry Reilly | Aug 20, 2012 | Newton Corner, traffic |
How do people like the new “full-span” signs (I learned this term from the workers who were boring test holes for the footings this spring), that are going up around the Mass Pike/Washington St. rotaries in West Newton and Newton Corner? They’re a...
by Bob Burke | Aug 13, 2012 | bicycles, traffic |
I was perusing the minutes from the Newton Bicycle Advisory Committee and came across an interesting exchange about what it would take to bring the Hubway bike sharing program to Newton. The program recently expanded to Cambridge and Somerville with limited expansion...
by Adam Peller | Aug 12, 2012 | traffic |
Deirdre Fernandes at the Globe reports today on design plans for the final stage of the 128 add-a-lane project, which will add a fourth lane to the highway in Needham and Wellesley, replacing a temporary breakdown lane which has been in place for almost a decade. The...
by Nathan Phillips | Aug 6, 2012 | traffic |
Here it is the first Monday in August and I can check off another Pan-Mass Challenge from my list of accomplishments, although this time – my fifth – I have a different story to tell. I’d probably rank my four previous PMCs among the best weekends of the year, if I...
