I should also mention that several Northeastern Civil Engineering students created plans for continuing these lanes all the way east to the public garden and west to Allston in addition to several other critical bike path and lane plans around the city as their senior projects. The projects were overseen by Professor Peter Furth, and presented to the city/public this April.

So, hopefully with continued interest and support we’ll see an increasingly bike-friendly Boston.

Also consider the alternative? No bike lanes? We have had that setup for the last 30 years and it has done nothing to help get more people out on bikes. Even if it is just psychological I say we should put well designed bike lanes all over.

I just got my brother on a bike for the first time in ten years. He’s still nervous about Huntington Ave. and the Financial District where he works, but he says he does like riding on Mass Ave. in Cambridge because of the lane.

What it means to a beginner and a long-time enthusiast may be different, but anything at all that increases consciousness is a net gain in my opinion

1) Perkins Street, Jamaica Plain.

2) Ruggles Street, adjacent to Northeastern University.

Many people view bike lanes as the one-size-fits-all solution to on-street accommodation of bicyclists. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that adding a stripe of paint actually improves cyclists’ safety or access to roadways, and the spotty safety record of several cities’ lanes suggests that, at best, bike lanes are irrelevant as a part of efforts to create actual improvements in individual cyclists’ safety.