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Vicious Cycle

ROB KATZ

BEHIND THE CURVE

Hubway’s low-income program goes regional, but infrastructure’s still inadequate As the bike-sharing industry becomes a multibillion-dollar race across the country, cycling options for Bostonians are getting more affordable and more competitive. In Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, and Somerville, Hubway reigns due to exclusive contracts with those cities. The publicly owned and

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ROB KATZ May 14, 2018
OLIVIA DENG

JAMMED UP

Is Boston cycle infrastructure getting better faster than congestion gets worse? Matt bikes daily. He says that one of those days last summer, while biking past the Harvard Coop in Cambridge, he saw a car with an Uber sign parked in the bike lane. When he began to steer around

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OLIVIA DENG May 1, 2018
KATIE CAMPISI

THE BALLAD OF BIKING IN BOSTON

Dispatches from my daily dance with death en route to work I edge off the sidewalk. I look left and then right. Then left and then right again. One more time to be sure. I merge towards the rightmost edge of the street, but there is no bike lane so I teeter

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KATIE CAMPISI July 9, 2017

GETTING TO BIKE

  Urban multimodal network needed to make bicycles a viable alternative in the ’burbs June 21, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The following column was written as commentary for the June 2017 episode of the Beyond Boston monthly video news digest — produced by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and several area public

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JASON PRAMAS June 21, 2017
KYLIE OBERMEIER

INTERSECTIONAL POLITICS (A CRASH-NOT-ACCIDENT REPORT)

When it comes to bike safety and infrastructure in Greater Boston, there’s a dangerous gap between the promises that cities make and the reality where rubber meets the road Of all the places for a cyclist or pedestrian to be killed, the intersection of Mass Ave and Somerville Ave in

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KYLIE OBERMEIER June 7, 2017
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