Boston Greenways: Eight Missing Links

You are cordially invited to the final presentations for the senior design projects (capstone projects) in transportation engineering, Tuesday April 22, 6:30 pm, in 108 Snell Engineering Center. The presentations, entitled “Boston Greenways: Eight Missing Links” are co-sponsored by the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, MassBike, WalkBoston, the Fenway Alliance, and the Solomon Fund, as well as the projects’ client, the City of Boston.

In case you missed it, the students’ work was featured in last Sunday’s Globe

The final presentation is open to the public, so please feel free to invite interested people. It will consist of a plenary session lasting about 1.5 hours in which the projects are all presented, and will be followed by a time for participants to view the designs in more detail and discuss them with students teams, who will be stationed around the lobby of the Snell Engineering Center.

PROJECT LIST
1. Charlesgate path: multiuse path along and under the Bowker overpass connecting the Back Bay Fens with both the Charles River bike path and the Mass Ave bridge.

2. Arborway: new traffic circulation scheme for Arborway between Jamaica Pond (Kelly Circle) and the Arboretum (Murray Circle), with the goal of concentrating through traffic in the inner roadway and restoring the park / path function of the medians between the inner and outer roadways, allowing the Emerald Necklace paths to extend from Jamaica Pond to the Arboretum.

3. Route 9 Crossing for Muddy River path: building on last year’s project, a more detailed design
of improvements to bring the Muddy River path across Route 9 and across Brookline Ave to Netherlands Road. Includes bridge alternatives, embankment modifications, and traffic circulation changes with associated traffic signal studies.

4. World Series path: multiuse path between Ruggles Station and Fenway, including a modified Huntington Ave crossing. This path has same function, but a different alignment, as the Linking the Corridors Path.

5. Bike lanes on Commonwealth Ave. from the Public Garden to Kenmore Square.

6. Bike lanes on Commonwealth Ave. from the BU Bridge to Warren Street via Packard’s Corner.

7. Bike lanes on Dartmouth Street (Back Bay)

8. Bike lanes on Summer Street / L Street from the Fort Point Channel to the L Street Beach in South Boston

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