Highlights
- Editorial: Dreams of a bikeable Boston (Boston Globe [1])
I CYCLED Dorchester Avenue, and I survived. Sure, it was a Sunday morning, and, sure, I had Shane Jordan of the advocacy group MassBike blazing my trail, but I made it - 10 miles roundtrip - in one piece. Potholes gaped, vehicles swerved, and car doors were flung open in our paths. With eyes peeled and my head on a swivel, it was easy to see why some cyclists shun "Dot Ave." It's not for the faint of heart, or the weak of leg.
- Bike lanes offer a path to safe cycling (Boston Globe [2])
I'm biking down Beacon Street in Somerville toward Inman Square. This stretch of road has no bike lane, so I'm extra wary of turning cars and doors suddenly flinging open. I feel like a guerrilla cyclist. But when I hit the Cambridge city line, it's like crossing from the dark side of the moon to the light. A bike lane suddenly appears. The street changes its name to Hampshire here, and if I'm continuing onto Kendall Square and over the Longfellow Bridge, I feel protected all the way to Boston.
- Not-So-Free Ride: The trouble with negative externalities (New York Times [3])
Americans drive too much. This isn’t a political or moral argument; it’s an economic one. How so? Because there are all sorts of costs associated with driving that the actual driver doesn’t pay.
- Major work urged for Williams Tunnel: Firm sees need for adding 900 ceiling anchors (Boston Globe [4])
- Metro Moments with the Mayor: Litter on Tremont St; Police cars parked on the Southwest Corridor (Boston Metro [5])
- BU revs up riverside vision (Brookline TAB [6], Boston Globe [7])
- Meeting of the minds, professional grade (Boston Globe [8])
- The art of drawing neighbors together (Boston Globe [9])
- Bring your bike to work week (Boston Globe [10])
- Bicyclist hit on Cambridge St, Allston (Allston-Brighton Community Blog [11])
- Bike spoken here (Boston Globe [12])
- T Q+A with General Manager Dan Grabauskas (Boston Metro [13])
- MBTA Launches Anti-Groping Campaign (Boston Metro [14], WCVB [15])
- MetroWest Wants Rides To And From The MBTA (Worcester Business Journal [16])
- CSX: New Yard key for commuter boost (Worcester Telegram [17])
- MBTA sues over commuter rail crash (Boston Herald [18], Boston Globe [19])
- Those annoying school buses (West Roxbury Transcript [20])
- No left turns is right on (Boston Globe [21])
- Valet parking goes far out: Suburban malls, restaurants, even a Y are taking the keys (Boston Globe [22])
- Curbside signs point to a parking ticket - or not (Boston Globe [23])
- Neighbors lament Columbus mess (Boston Globe [24])
- Gov. OKs funding for Green Line Extension (Somerville Journal [25])
- Transportation bill OK'd: Lawmakers back away from removing police from construction details (Boston Metro [26])
- Two plans for fixing our aging bridges (Reading Advocate [27])
- Brookline delegation split on transportation package (Brookline TAB [28])
- Study takes aim at Pike's spending (Boston Globe [29])
- How green is my (suburban) footprint? (Press Democrat [30])
- The Bumpy Road to Congestion Relief (Washington Post [31])
- Will New York Borrow Traffic Plans from Paris? (New York Magazine [32])
- Happiness is Baltimore's Sunday Streets (Audacious Ideas [33])
- Portland Considered Most Bicycle-Friendly City in North America (Democracy Now! [34])
- The Mercedes-Benz of City Buses (This Is Only a Test) (New York Times [35])
- Map a new plan for transportation: Take a big turn to transit's potential (Detroit Free Press [36])
- Time for Change? Skip the Change, I'll Take Dollars! (Planetizen [37])
- King of the Road: What's with groups that argue for less government but see publicly built highways as an expression of the free market? (Governing [38])
- PELOSI -- 'I Join You in Issuing a Challenge to Rebuild and Renew America' (Trading Markets [39])
- Modern suburbia not just in America anymore (USA Today [40])
- What Prosperity Has to Do With Price of Cars in China (Wall Street Journal [41])