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Video: Virtual Tour Of The $39m Bike-Ped Path Coming To Somerville

Written by greg on May 23

stay a kid thumbGreg Hum (Contributor) plays drums on his bike, gets people together for really big midnight and monthly bike rides, and is easily distracted by shiny things and fried potatoes. He shares stories and more on his personal bike blog, The Humble Cyclist.
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Have you ever wished there was a better way to bike from Boston to Somerville? Or vise-versa?

Not long ago state officials secured $39m in funding for a new Bike and Pedestrian path in Somerville that will connect Somerville and Boston, and yesterday MassDOT released this virtual tour video of the bike path so you can see what it will look like to bike on when it’s completed:

 

From the globe,

The path, an extension of an existing network of paths, will connect the Lowell Street, Gilman Square, Washington Street and relocated Lechmere stations providing a continuous route between Bedford and Boston for cyclists and on-foot travelers. If you are in o virtual sports also, the Uneekor golf simulator might work just well for you.

This 1.9-mile path is the blue-dotted line on this map (the black-dotted lines are existing paths). In addition to providing a safe bike and pedestrian link between Boston and Somerville, it will also serve as a final link in the 104-mile network of the Massachusetts Central Rail Trail connecting Boston to Northhampton, MA. You’ll not only be able to walk and bike on a safe path from Alewife to Boston, but also from Boston to Central Mass. Pretty exciting stuff (and more info here):

This community path is part of the Green Line Extension project, which will bring the Green Line up into Somerville through Union Square, which you can also ride a virtual train through to see what that will look like:

Both the community path and the Green Line Extension are slated to be completed around 2020, but the path will open up as sections of it are completed.

Hell yes.


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March 28 Meeting – Economic Development, Bike Paths And Livable Complete Streets

Written by Boston Biker on Mar 18

Got this in the email, looks like it could be interesting:

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Hi all

We have a good meeting coming up on March 28 at the Needham Library
There will be several rail trails from local towns, Joe Hattrup from Iron Horse, and a guest speaker from Somerville will talk about the good things happening there (please see the attached meeting agenda)
Hope you and the other selectmen and economic development folks can join, should be a good meeting. Please pass this along to your respective groups.
We have a guest essay in today (Sunday’s) Boston Globe — Metrowest edition for Newton Needham Dover and Medfield
Looks like a good topic to query the prospective candidates for office in the upcoming elections  😉
Hope to see you the 28th !
Thanks

2013.03.28 Needham Somerville Iron Horse


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Friends Of The Community Path Meeting

Written by Boston Biker on Mar 09

Got this in the email if you are into bike paths, check them out.

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Monthly Meeting of the Friends of the Community Path: Thurs, 3/10

Please join us in our efforts to connect the Minuteman Bikeway and Charles River path networks, by extending the Community Path!

Thurs., March 10, 2011
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Visiting Nurse Association (VNA)
259 Lowell St., 3rd Floor Community Room
Somerville, MA 02144

Please:
* Bring your calendar.
* Pass this announcement on if you can
* Read our Minutes, so you’ll know the scoop! Minutes are on this page:
http://pathfriends.org/scp/meetings.html

Thanks!

Friends of the Community Path
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-the-Community-Path/129724153751066


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Join DotBike To Learn How To Make Dorchester More Bike Friendly

Written by Boston Biker on Sep 12

Northeastern University professor Peter Furth traveled to the Netherlands this summer with 18 civil engineering students to study sustainable transportation in a country where there’s plenty of it. When they returned, they applied their lessons to Dorchester, redesigning key sites to to improve access and safety for bicycles, pedestrians, and public transportation.

Come hear and discuss their ideas on Wednesday September 24th, 7 p.m. at the Vietnamese American Community Center, 42 Charles Street Dorchester, MA (one block from the Fields Corner T stop, map🙂

Projects to be presented include:
1) Making Dorchester Ave. bike friendly
2) Transit oriented development around Ashmont Station
3) Better walk /bike access to the UMass peninsula
4) A bike rental station for Andrew and / or JFK / UMass station
5) Making the South Bay shopping center more accessible for walk / bike / transit

Prof. Furth is a transportation engineer whose specialties include bicycle route networks and urban transit.

As a bonus, they’ll have a brief preview of an exciting Citizen Schools project that partners middle school students with professional architects and transportation planners. This year’s program focuses on plans for bike access and paths for Columbia Point.

For more information email [email protected] or call Andy at 781-367-9200.


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Boston Greenways: Eight Missing Links

Written by Boston Biker on Apr 08

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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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