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FROM BETTER TO WORSE ON COMMONWEALTH AVE: City Leaders Need To Step Up For Their Own Policies

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Steve Miller

For a while it was feeling like stodgy Boston was jumping back into the elite group of city’s whose actions around transportation (and its joined-at-the-hip land-use twin) set the pace for the rest of the country. Our environmentally-based Smart Growth policies were state-of-the-art, which became even more valuable as climate-change storms and rising sea levels […] Continue reading →

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FROM BETTER TO WORSE ON COMMONWEALTH AVE: City Leaders Need To Step Up For Their Own Policies

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Steve Miller

For a while it was feeling like stodgy Boston was jumping back into the elite group of city’s whose actions around transportation (and its joined-at-the-hip land-use twin) set the pace for the rest of the country. Our environmentally-based Smart Growth policies were state-of-the-art, which became even more valuable as climate-change storms and rising sea levels […] Continue reading →

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A NOTE FOR THE NEXT GOVERNOR: Travel is the Least Important Thing about Transportation

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Steve Miller

Congratulations on your election. As you know, that was the easy part!   Here’s something waiting for you: our transportation system is in crisis. We can’t seem to generate the political will needed to raise the money required to upgrade our decayed rails, roads, bridges, and sidewalks to meet the needs of today – much less […] Continue reading →

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TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT SAFETY: Looking Beyond Traffic Lights

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Steve Miller

My tolerance may have been low because of the bicyclist who had been run over that afternoon, the 8th Boston-area death in the past two years – five by right-turning trucks, two by buses, one by a drunk driver – and I was thinking that it could have been me.   But there it was, the […] Continue reading →

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SMART CITIES, POWER POLITICS, & QUALITY OF LIFE: Technology and What It’s Used For

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Steve Miller

Techno-utopians.  It wasn’t long ago that we were being told that digital Information and Communication Technologies would solve nearly every problem and transform the world in wonderful ways, small and big.  Cars would be routed around congestion; government would more accurately chart population needs. Although there were some efforts to broaden the scope of “smart” […] Continue reading →

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SLOWING TRAFFIC TO A TARGET SPEED: How To Make Our Streets Safer

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Steve Miller

We’ve all seen the graph: a person hit by a car going 40 miles per hour (mph) has an 85% chance of being killed.  Reducing the speed to 30 mph cuts the odds of death in half; reducing speed to 20 mph drops the fatality rate by an astounding 94%.  Even more dramatically, at 5 […] Continue reading →

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MassDOT’S HEALTHY TRANSPORTATION POLICY DIRECTIVE: Framing Economic Needs as Public Health Measures Strengthens Both

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Steve Miller

MassDOT’s recently issued Healthy Transportation Policy Directive could actualize the most profound transformation in the state’s transportation system since the anti-highway movement convinced Governor Frank Sargent to cancel the massive Inner Belt project (the first time any state had done this) and his Transportation Secretary, Alan Altshuler, got the state’s Congressional delegation to pass legislation […] Continue reading →

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THE RIGHT TO BE ON THE ROAD: When Bicyclists Have To Pull Over, When Cars Can Pass

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Steve Miller

You might have the impression, as once did I, that the passage of a bill by the Legislature and it’s signing by the chief executive makes it a law.  But trial lawyers know better.  A law is just a bunch of words waiting for judicial interpretation. Case in point:  It’s true that bicycles aren’t cars, […] Continue reading →

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Mass Highway directives for bicycle and pedestrian accomodation

Posted on December 24, 2011 by bikenewengland

Tweet Mass Highway Engineering Directive E-09-005, August 21, 2009 reads “Bicycle accommodation shall be in accordance with Chapter 5 of the Project Development And Design Guide and the 1999 AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities.” Bicycle lanes are defined as portions of … Continue reading →

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Mass Highway directives for bicycle and pedestrian accomodation

Posted on December 24, 2011 by bikenewengland

Tweet Mass Highway Engineering Directive E-09-005, August 21, 2009 reads “Bicycle accommodation shall be in accordance with Chapter 5 of the Project Development And Design Guide and the 1999 AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities.” Bicycle lanes are defined … Continue reading →

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