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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 to help Massachusetts municipalities conceive, design, and implement changes to curbs, streets, plaza...

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 conceive, design and implement changes to curbs, streets, plazas and parking areas in support of public...

Saugus awarded $98,000 Shared Street and Spaces Grant to create safer Cliftondale Square Wicked Local Town Manager Scott Crabtree issued the following press release Town Manager Scott C. Crabtree is pleased to announce that the Town of Saugus has been awarded $98,000 through the Baker-Polito Administration’s Shared Streets and Spaces competitive grant program to make traffic and sidewalk improvements in Cliftondale Square. “We are grateful of the Baker-Polito Administration and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s support of the Town of Saugus and its goal to create safer st...

Baker-Polito Administration announces $6.5 million in Shared Streets funding, including $91,060 to Wareham Wicked Local DEDHAM – The Baker-Polito Administration has announced $6.5 million to municipalities in Shared Streets and Spaces Program funding, including more than $90,000 to Wareham. “The Shared Streets and Spaces Program has now awarded $33 million total to 183 cities and towns since the competitive grants were offered to municipalities 13 months ago,” said Gov. Charlie Baker.  “Shared Streets grants kept local economies going and gave the public options for safe travel a...

Above: The traffic pattern on North Street in Pittsfield has been adjusted again to encourage the use of bicycles. The city has proposed a new network of bike “facilities” — painted bike lanes, signs and flex poles among them — covering 90 miles of roads in the newly unveiled Bicycle Facilities Master Plan. Top: Freshly painted markings create a separate bike lane along North Street. photos by BEN GARVER — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE PITTSFIELD — The current network of bikeable roads is a series of disconnected islands, city officials...