Release of document trove about Riverbend Park raises questions on Decker account, DCR decision
Documents released through a citizen’s public records request provides insight into the state government’s decision in April to stop closings of Memorial Drive on Saturdays to create Riverbend Park, with many complaints about inaccuracies in a state official’s memo.
Silent to many during debate on Riverbend Park, state Rep. Decker writes to put onus on state DCR
While most state representatives, city councillors and other politicians staked out a position long ago on the future of Saturday closings of Memorial Drive to create Riverbend Park, state Rep. Marjorie Decker only broke a noted absence from the public debate recently.
Council signals support for Riverbend Park opening over whole weekends during 2023
The addition of Saturdays to the schedule in past years prompted strong debate between those in favor of the Memorial Drive park and those who worried about additional traffic detouring onto side streets, especially in the Riverside community.
Meeting on keeping Saturday ‘Riverbend Park’ finds support, but sympathy for Riverside effect
A community meeting highlighted strong support for the continued closing of Memorial Drive to car traffic to create Riverbend Park on Saturdays and Sundays.
State shuts down Riverbend Park expansion, promising to hold meeting after Labor Day
Saturday closings of Memorial Drive to traffic will stop this weekend, the state announced in a Wednesday statement. It sparked an outcry from bicyclists and city and state officials.
Porter Square will get ‘quick-build’ bike lanes after idea to add it to larger project is defeated
An attempt to delay the “quick build” of bike lanes through Porter Square by up to four years failed Monday. The majority of city councillors pointed to the lives that could be saved with safer cycling infrastructure, while councillors who brought forward the order said that parking spaces replaced by bike lanes meant the death of businesses.
Doubts on MBTA wire work delays bike lane vote, and projects’ price tag of $55 million doesn’t help
A $55 million plan to complete the buildout of separated bike lanes on Massachusetts Avenue by 2027 was considered Monday by the City Council, but now a vote is delated until the next meeting, two weeks away.
Changes increasing bike safety in Porter Square remove parking, revive conflict from up the road
Plans in Porter Square call for the installation of quick-build flex posts separating cyclists from car traffic and the removal of significant numbers of parking spaces – similar to a project that brought months of anger and dispute farther north on Massachusetts Avenue.
New bike and bus lanes to get more consultation from neighbors and existing city advisory groups
After a flurry of amendments and a substitution, the City Council agreed to ask for a “committee of committees” to review the installation of separated bike and bus lanes and for city staff to meet with those affected by a recent rollout on North Massachusetts Avenue to alleviate their concerns and improve future transportation changes.
Fractured vote about North Cambridge bike lanes speaks to ‘concern and confusion’ from outreach
That half-mile section of Massachusetts Avenue between Dudley Street and Alewife Brook Parkway in North Cambridge has ignited debate around bike lanes in general. One city councillor called outreach around plans “woefully inept.”
