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Does anyone know the status of other municipalities joining the system? I've heard rumors of Newton and Medford over the past few months. There are a lot of new stations and expansions in the existing towns coming up with the new operating contract they announced a month or so ago. I wonder if they are waiting for this to happen first? |
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Interestingly, they also want to relocate the Kendal Green commuter rail stop to right behind the retirement home just east of the Waltham/Weston line, with a new road along the Central Mass. ROW connecting it to Green St. |
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I could see Medford begging Somerville to put a station at the Medford Whole Foods (part of the parking lot is in Somerville), but I think Medford has its hands full getting the Clippership Connector built (along the Mystic on City/State property) MEDFORD UPDATE Medford has a couple of complete streets pilot projects. One of them would add a bike lane to inbound Boston Ave in West Medford (pointing towards Tufts) when the street undergoes and upcoming repaving. This is a bigger political deal (progress) given that Medford has precious few bike lanes on its own streets (a tiny strip from Winchester to the High School where the thermoplastic crumbled off within 1 season) and few even on DCR roads (there's one on the Fellsway West where it is not near anyone's homes) The other item that the Mayor is working on is cobbling together city & foundation money to build the Clippership Conector along land that is in various (but friendly) hands (DCR, MassDOT, City, & City Housing Auth) ![]()
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Input wanted on new Weston rail trail
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Given the progress of Waltham's Wayside trail and possibly the Belmont Community Path, this could be a really long and nifty corridor. |
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Re: Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)
My only requirement is that it's easy for me to access people's backyards so I can steal all their fancy TVs and take them on my bike back to the city :-D
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I remember that being an argument at a Selectmen's meeting in Lexington when the Minuteman was proposed. I was in high school at the time and remember my biology teacher, a Watertown native who had a thing against "snooty towns" (not to mention, Lexington was our school's rival, so I think he was coming at it from that angle -either his brother or best friend taught at LHS, so they exploited a friendly rivalry), having a field day with that argument and how illogical it was. Thankfully, Lexington's Board of Selectmen was a bit wiser than some of its NIMBYs.
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This is a bit of an aside, but over the past two years I've visited Hudson on the way back from apple picking and it's really blowing up - lots of new small businesses, and young people everywhere in them; the main street (which is Main St) has seriously revitalized over the past 10 years but accelerated over the past 2 and remarkably so. I'm not really sure what's driving this since Hudson is pretty remote. It might just be 495 businesses and people getting priced out of the city and deciding to live in an affordable revitalizing mill town. Anyway, the Assabet Trail runs right through town, but if they ever get the Mass Central laid out, it would be a pretty be HUGE for Hudson. Worth checking out.
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^Thanks!
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Has anyone here heard of VBikes? Apparently they're a Dallas-based stationless bike rental company that's looking to open in some of the non-Hubway towns and out on Cape Cod.
I'm wondering if any MA towns have put in place regulations for these rental schemes, since otherwise it sounds like they can just put the bikes out and start operating. |
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Rail trail update in Swampscott
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Winchester-Stoneham-Woburn Tri-Community Greenway continues to have brisk construction progress:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TriCommu...eenway/photos/ from their website (http://www.tricommunitygreenway.org/), they report: Quote:
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I have gradually come to the conclusion that a road diet on Route 1 is likely the right solution here. Less than half a mile to the south of that potential trail crossing, southbound Route 1 narrows to a single lane just before merging with two lanes from I-95. If you move the merge down to a single lane to just north of the crossing, and turn the left lanes of route 1 at the crossing into island space for cyclists, and narrow the single travel lanes to 10' at the crossing, and set a suitably slow speed limit on Route 1 at the crossing, and perhaps add flashing lights that bicyclists can hit a button to activate, the crossing will probably work out OK.
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In early December, the Belmont Board of Selectmen approved a design for the Belmont Community Path. It'll cost $27.9m.
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Given the challenges Belmont has had working with some of the abutters, I'm pleasantly surprised to see their Selectmen unanimously approving the bike path.
https://tedstransporttakes.wordpress...f-bike-trails/ argues that bike paths in the suburbs are primarily useful for getting people to commuter rail stations, and argues that we should deprioritize recreational trails. While perhaps the potential trails that provide commuter rail connections deserve a bit more attention, I think the basic point that most bike paths are relatively cheap suggests that we might as well keep working on completing the long distance recreational trails as well. |
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Re: Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)
Given that the Mass Central Rail Trail already connects to the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail in Northampton, if we fill in all the gaps there will be a contiguous trail all the way from North Point Park in Cambridge to New Haven, and the southern part of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail is part of the East Coast Greenway, which continues to Florida. North Point Park probably will also turn out to be not far from where the East Coast Greenway will continue to Maine.
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