City leaders announced Friday that the area around the intersection of Tremont and Parker Streets will see a “number of street upgrades,” including a bike lane that will be separated from traffic by parked cars. The city will also paint new white lines there and at nearby intersections.

It should not take someone to die and a ghost bike to be placed to get safe bike infrastructure.

  • Agrivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    15 days ago

    This is still a positive developement. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good.

    • pc486@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      I completely agree. It’s a shame but it’s best to look towards making it not happen again.

      IMHO, we should let the survivors have the first right of refusal to name these improvements with those who passed away. It’ll make political moves to remove bike infrastructure more hellish when it’s not “remove the x street bike lane” but “remove the Dwyane Good lane.”

  • WagnasT@piefed.worldEnglish
    4·
    15 days ago

    Boston has been doing a lot of improvements for bike infrastructure, unfortunately a lot of it is still just painted gutters but some of it has physical barriers and separate traffic signals. Hopefully the city continues to listen to their constituents and not the very loud vocal minorty. They really need to step up enforcement, i’ve watched large trucks deliberately destroy barriers because it hurts their feelings, there’s constantly cars parked in bike lanes with their park anywhere lights on. I hope they do some kind of congestion pricing to both reduce the number of cars and help pay for improvements.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    15 days ago

    I love how my city went about adding bike lanes. In the super high traffic areas there are protective curbs. In other places there is parking in between the lane and the street, so the parked cars themselves serve as a physical barrier.