Skip navigation.
Home
  home | projects | newsletter | calendar | resources | about us | donate | directions
Home

StreetNEWS (June 2)

Submitted by Charlie Denison on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 4:16pm.

Highlights
  • Fatal crash on Green Line (Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Metro, Newton TAB)
    An outbound Green Line trolley crowded with rush-hour passengers slammed into the back of another trolley along an idyllic stretch of track in Newton yesterday evening, a collision that caused the two trains to derail, threw commuters from their seats, and killed the MBTA operator who was driving the second train. (More coverage below...)

  • A shock on parking, then the debate: How many spots, and for whom? (Boston Globe, Brookline TAB)
    In this town, almost everybody has an opinion on parking.  But the topic of cars and traffic congestion came under renewed scrutiny in the debate leading up to Wednesday's unexpected passage of a bill that reduces parking-space requirements for a development on Route 9.
  • Share the road: Somerville marks out new bike lanes (Somerville Journal)
    Mayor Joe Curtatone today announced that the city has completed the installation of over one mile of bicycle lane markings on Beacon Street from Oxford Street to the Cambridge line (near Inman Square) and on Broadway from Packard Street to Powder House Square. [...] The new bike lanes represent a ten-fold increase in the length of bike lanes in Somerville.

  • John Pucher: Cycling for everyone (Bike Commute Tips Blog)
    This is a great video of a presentation by John Pucher, professor of planning and policy development at Rutgers University, speaking to an audience at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. In his entertaining and enlightening presentation, Dr. Pucher makes many convincing arguments for the benefits of bicycling and illustrates many successful bicycling improvements developed in the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark.

  • It's economics stupid... (Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space)
    Sprawl has always been enabled by the confluence of a number of factors that economists would say generate spillover costs or free rider effects. These factors included a regulatory and financial regime that favored suburban development, the construction of roads and other infrastructure by federal and state governments, enabling cheaper costs for new construction on greenfield land, and cheap gasoline.
"Streets"
Walking
Bicycling
Transit

Cars/Parking
Parks
  • A bump in the road for recreational trail: Natick stretch stalls as Framingham picks up speed (Boston Globe)
  • Drivers need warning of Esplanade events (Boston Globe)
Development projects
Transportation financing/Government
Out-of-state
National trends
International news
» printer friendly version | 247 reads