The candidates on making Boston streets safer and improving public transit

By adamg - Wed, 09/27/2017 - 9:33pm

The Massachusetts Vision Zero Coalition posts their answers to a questionnaire side by side.

Pedestrian fatalities up in Boston last year

By adamg - Thu, 05/11/2017 - 7:16am

WBUR reports on what the city says it's doing about it.

Boston to experiment with lowering speed limits as way to reduce pedestrian fatalities and injuries

By adamg - Fri, 12/11/2015 - 1:41pm

Boston officials plan to drop the speed limit to 20 m.p.h. in small sections of Jamaica Plain and Dorchester - and to seek state permission to reduce the default citywide speed limit to 25 - as part of efforts to reduce the number of crash-related injuries and deaths in the city.

The "Neighborhood Slow Streets" proposals for the Stony Brook and Talbot-Triangle areas could then become blueprints for reducing bad crashes on neighborhood streets across Boston. Read more.