Mayor Wu and BTD today announced plans for 9.4 miles of new bike lanes to be marked out and built in Boston by December, 2023, part of a three-year plan to ensure that half of all Bostonians will be within a three-minute walk of a "a safe and connected bike route."
Along with the new bike lanes over the next year, the city is also planning to expand the number of Bluebikes rental stations, to make streets safer for pedestrians through more speed bumps and raised pedestrian crossings in at least ten area across the city and hiring more staff to design the new lanes and traffic "calming" measures.
Rough list of new bike lanes:
- Allston-Brighton: North Beacon Street, South Street, Western Avenue, Winship Street
- Back Bay and Downtown: Berkeley Street, Boylston Street, Milk Street
- Fenway/Kenmore: Commonwealth Avenue, Hemenway Street
- South End and Bay Village: Albany Street, Berkeley Street, Charles Street South/Tremont Street
- Mission Hill: South Huntington Avenue
- Jamaica Plain: Boylston Street, Green Street, Eliot Street, McBride Street, Seaverns Avenue, South Huntington Avenue
- Roslindale: Poplar Street
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Bike lanes or "bike lanes"
By SharpWave
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 1:20pm
Unless there's some sort of physical barrier they don't mean shit.
Traffic calming is good but there needs to be a "so be it" attitude toward sacrificing parking for safety, and I'm not sure we're there yet to the degree they are in Cambridge.
Yes
By eeka
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 1:49pm
Paint-only bike lanes do nothing.
See: this “right lane bike only” sign, which absolutely no motorists including/especially cops heed.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5aig1ASpuEAMQsz16?g_st=ic
See also: all the mail trucks and police cruisers in the bike lanes all the time. They need high curbs/fences/Jersey barriers.
Paint does nothing
By merlinmurph
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 4:47pm
Like eeka said, paint does nothing. When I'm driving and I see those sharrows, I'm still not sure what that means. It's not a lane, it's just paint on a road.
Sharrows
By eeka
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 8:19pm
A lot of safety advocates hate sharrows, because many motorists infer that they only need to allow cyclists to take the lane if there’s a sharrow.
Sharrows aren't bike lanes.
By Rob
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 8:24pm
Sharrows aren't bike lanes. They're reminders in regular lanes.
Better than nothing!?
By geep9
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 1:27pm
Well except in south Boston, where it is nothing
Puzzling list
By Kaz
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 2:32pm
Well...okay, but it's already super wide and not even that busy....meanwhile, Washington St from D-14 up to Comm Ave is scary as hell going uphill without even paint to protect you.
Uh...done! Look at that, they're ahead of schedule! I can think of, literally, only half a block where the bike lane disappears inbound just before Charlesgate where they could even be talking about "adding" any bike lane to Comm Ave between Packard's Corner and the Public Garden. Is that all they meant??
The one meaningful bike lane on the whole list! They're finally going to put one in on Charles Street! Wait...Charles Street South??? Oh, fuck you.
This whole list reads as the most obvious/easiest places to put paint and call it a day.
Granted I ride a single speed everywhere
By spin_o_rama
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 3:40pm
But when I lived up near St. Gabe's, I would avoid going up/down Washington street and instead took the longer, less hilly approach taking Winship with connections to Union/Wallingford.
One quick take
By Waquiot
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 4:30pm
In looking at the website, it is interesting that on the map provided, Mattapan Square and most of Hyde Park do not exist. Perhaps telling.
There are, em, issues with some of this plan. For example, I don't really know South Street in Brighton, but it seems the entire plan for that is to tell cyclists that it's okay to go the wrong way down the street. No lanes. No protection. Just a sign saying one can do that.
Check the bottom of the user interface
By spin_o_rama
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 4:56pm
There is a zoom in/zoom out feature in the bottom right. Cuts off parts of Charlestown and East Boston too by default. Seems like a reach that its indicative of anything telling.
I agree with your comments on the South St. proposal, not really sure what they are envisioning there from the language and imagery.
I have to admit
By Waquiot
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 10:43pm
After I posted what I posted, I went back to look at the proposals. The map had indeed changed to show the southern end of the city.
I guess I was looking at things like Costello did. Hyde Park was the last neighborhood to get Blue Bikes, after even West Roxbury. As you inadvertently noted, no new infrastructure for East Boston or Charlestown, either. I nice path from Sullivan Square would do wonders, no?
Oh 100%!
By spin_o_rama
Wed, 09/07/2022 - 8:53am
The omissions are interesting though, seems like they quoted a lot of data and lower usage in those areas with regards to BluBikes.
But of course it is a "built it and they will come" thought process with most bike infra, so I'm just puzzled as to why those areas are underserved in the planning.
Pot holes first priority?
By Friartuck
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 4:49pm
Its been 2 years FFS
Ah bikes...
By Darryll J Fernald
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 6:54pm
The only thing that unites the left and right, complete disdain for cyclists of any sort.
And nothing shows complete disdain for something...
By fungwah
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 10:17pm
than building more infrastructure to support it.
Huh?
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 09/09/2022 - 6:13pm
I don't consider bike haters to be progressive in the least.
Boomers who consider themselves left wing are often inflexible car-addled blowhards that would put their parents to shame in the moral dudgeon at anything new department.
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