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In partnership with the Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority, Edgartown has been awarded $200,000 to support a quick launch of a pedestrian path and bicycle signage to improve traffic flow. The pedestrian path will be 450 feet long, and stretch along the bicycle parking on Peases Point Way, and will line the Church Street bus stop. […]

Awards through the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s Shared Streets & Spaces Grant Program for speed management initiatives

Heres what business owners and residents have to say about the changes.

That will undo the 1967 decision to make both roads one way, Community Development and Planning Executive Director Tom Skwierawski said.

Street parklets, established during COVID-19 to help restaurants deal with seating restrictions, have returned to the city for a third season.

Lee town officials are considering a redesign of the T intersection at Main, Park and West Park streets, in front of Carr Hardware. The new design would be similar to

The Herald News Six SouthCoast cities and towns were recently awarded funding for new traffic safety measures, trail connections, bikeshare stations, bus facilities and areas for outdoor dining and community activities. Dighton, Fairhaven, Raynham, Somerset, Swansea and Taunton were among 77 municipalities across the state that applied for and received a total of $6.5 million in funding from the Shared Streets and Spaces Grant Program.   The program provides technical and funding assistance t...

Baker-Polito administration announces $6.5 million awarded to municipalities COURTESY OF BAKER-POLITO ADMINISTRATION Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito joined acting transportation secretary and CEO Jamey Tesler and highway administrator Jonathan Gulliver in Dedham to announce the award of $6.5 million total to cities and towns which applied for funding from the Shared Streets and Spaces Grant Program.  The program provides technical and funding assistance to help Massachusetts municipalities con...

FRAMINGHAM — The city’s Highway Division has received a $200,000 Shared Streets and Spaces grant to improve pedestrian accessibility on a section of School Street. “Our Public Works team is very appreciative of the Baker-Polito administration and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation for this grant opportunity,” Public Works Director Blake Lukis said in a statement. “It is vital to keep investing and improving Framingham’s public infrastructure. Construction is slated to be...

Beth DeCarbo -- Globe Correspondent June 23, 2021 12:42 pm Residents in a western enclave of Concord would like to walk or bike to the newly opened Bruce Freeman Rail Trail nearby. But crossing busy Route 2A is unsafe because a roughly 2,000-foot stretch along the road lacks both sidewalks and crosswalks. “My son wants to play with kids who live on the other side of 2A. So we get in the car and drive him 200 feet and drop him off,’’ said Caroline Mahoney, a mother of four whose n...