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StreetNEWS (June 24)

Submitted by Charlie Denison on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 9:26am.

Highlights
  • Recreation plan gets red light: This time, construction keeps Storrow Drive open (Boston Globe)
    Bikers and joggers hoping to enjoy a car-free Storrow Drive on Sunday mornings will have to wait. State officials say they have put on hold a proposal to close a 5-mile stretch of the riverway road to cars. The move would have opened the road for bicycling, in-line skating, and other recreational uses, similar to how Memorial Drive in Cambridge is used on Sunday mornings from April to November.

  • Fiery accident kills one, injures seven near Coolidge Corner (Boston Globe, Brookline TAB, WBZ)
    A 79-year-old man was killed and seven others were injured yesterday in a fiery crash in Coolidge Corner, police said. Five of the injured were children, aged 10 months to 14 years old. Another victim, a 52-year-old woman who was not identified, was in critical condition last night at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, police said.

  • A safer route on horizon: Nonantum Road plans take shape (Boston Globe)
    After years of political wrangling, there is now a design aimed at making Nonantum Road safer and more appealing. On Wednesday, the state Department of Conservation and Recreation unveiled long-awaited plans to reconfigure about a one-mile section of the road. Nonantum, a narrow, four-lane road that winds along the Charles River through Brighton, Newton, and Watertown, has a long history of serious collisions and fatalities that many residents have blamed on drivers who exceed the 40 mile-per-hour speed limit.
    [Related: Watertown and Newton Police arrest 13 drunken drivers during Nonantum roadblock (Allston-Brighton TAB)]

  • On 3 Days in August, City Will Try No-Car Zone (New York Times, New York Sun, Downtown Express, Streetsblog, Streetfilms)
    It has been a long-held dream of New Yorkers of a certain (greenish) stripe: the streets of Manhattan free of cars. Now, for a few hours, on a few streets, on a few weekends this summer, that dream will become reality. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Monday that he will create a car-free zone on three Saturdays in August, along a 6.9-mile stretch of streets through Manhattan, from the Brooklyn Bridge, north to Park Avenue and the Upper East Side.
    [Other car-free coverage below, including Portland and Vancouver.]

  • Living near traffic boosts allergy risk (Boston Globe)
    Parents have always known that children and traffic don't mix, but a new German study offers even more support for that concern. Researchers, led by Joachim Heinrich of the German Research Center for Environment and Health from the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, followed two groups - 2,900 children from birth to age 4 and more than 3,000 children from birth to age 6 - and assessed their risk of developing allergies based on how far they lived from a major road.
    [Related: NIH Funds Highway Pollution & Health Study in Boston, Somerville (Newswise)]

  • New Study Shows City Can Reduce Congestion Through Parking Policy (Streetsblog)
    A study released today by Transportation Alternatives puts the congestion and waste caused by cheap metered parking in stark terms. The report, "Driven to Excess", quantifies just how far Upper West Side drivers go in search of open spots: 366,000 miles a year, or about the distance from Earth to the moon.
"Streets"
Walking
Bicycling
  • Mayor strikes blow to safety from seat of his bike (Boston Globe)
  • A new type of project in Cambridge, Mass. (NECN)
  • Quincy resident hopes to profit from high gas prices by selling electric bikes (Patriot Ledger)
  • Bike shops on a roll (Patriot Ledger)
Transit
  • T to launch new ad campaign (Boston Metro)
  • Parking shortage curtails Manchester-Boston bus runs (Union Leader)
  • Green Line growing pains: Medford group wants T extension to reach Mystic Valley Parkway (Boston Metro)
  • Legal Sea Foods seeks peaceful end to T's beef (Boston Globe)
  • Van pool cuts costs, stress of commute (Boston Globe)
  • Connecting the pieces: Northeastern professor wants to bring Hub bike paths together (Boston Metro)
  • Bus service to end in South Weymouth (Patriot Ledger)
  • Boston Express to expand bus service from N.H. (Boston Globe)
  • Hot tracks slow commute on the rail (Boston Globe)
Cars/Parking
Parks
Development projects
Green trends
  • Planet's greenest person won't be a Boston Celtic (Boston Herald)
  • "Smart transit challenge" aims to save energy (NECN)
Transportation financing/Government
Out-of-state
National trends
International news
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