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EDITORIAL: Reducing the speed limit won’t protect pedestrians

EDITORIAL: Reducing the speed limit won’t protect pedestrians

Editors November 15, 2018

Students are no strangers to danger on the streets of Boston. In fact, cars might be more afraid of us than we are of them. We dart out onto the street with vehicles barreling toward us. We ignore all...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh plans to extend his slow streets program to Chinatown, enforcing lower speed limits and installing speed bumps. PHOTO

City cracks down on speeding cars in residential areas

Camille Fowler November 7, 2017

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced the City’s first implementation of the Neighborhood Slow Streets Program in the Boston neighborhood of Stonybrook on Wednesday as part of the City’s Go Boston...

Boston Transportation Department initiates Neighborhood Slow Streets, a new program aims at improving roadway safety within defined residential areas. PHOTO BY CAROLYN KOMATSOULIS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston Transportation Department launches safe driving initiative

Abigail Freeman January 30, 2017

The Boston Transportation Department is accepting applications for the 2017 Neighborhood Slow Streets program, which works to use traffic calming measures to improve roadway safety in residential areas,...

Surrounded by bikers wearing yellow in solidarity with the dead, onlookers listen to a speaker call for faster action, at the Streets Are For People rally Thursday evening in City Hall Plaza. PHOTO BY CAROLYN KOMATSOULIS/ DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Pedestrians, bikers hold rally for safer streets at City Hall

Ashley Griffin September 30, 2016

To protest for safer roads for pedestrians and bikers, approximately 100 Boston residents rallied at City Hall Plaza Thursday evening in the “Streets Are for People Rally.” The rally, organized...

Traffic safety will be a highlighted component of Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s proposed 2017 Fiscal Year budget, according to his presentation to the Boston City Council on Thursday. PHOTO BY KANKANIT WIRIYASAJJA/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Fiscal Year 2017 budget to emphasize traffic safety

Kalina Newman April 19, 2016

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced Thursday that traffic safety in Boston will play a large role in the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2017, according to a Thursday press release. The release...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced a new online tool, Vision Zero Boston Transportation Safety Concerns Map, which streamlines the ability to report locations where MassDOT riders feel unsafe. PHOTO ABIGAIL FREEMAN/DFP FILE PHOTO

Mayor Walsh Announces Vision Zero Boston’s Safety Concerns Map

Carolyn Hoffman January 28, 2016

Mayor Martin Walsh announced the introduction of the Vision Zero Boston’s Safety Concerns Map at a press conference Friday. The map will allow residents to “identify locations where they have concerns...

Following the death of cyclist Anita Kurmann, 38, on Aug. 7, 2015, there will be increased safety measures implemented at the intersection of Beacon Street and Massachusetts Avenue. PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Mass. Ave., Beacon Street intersection to improve biker safety

Samantha J. Gross September 4, 2015

  In the wake of the fatal bike crash that killed Boston University research fellow Anita Kurmann, 38, changes to the intersection where the woman was struck are underway to make the area safer...

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