It’s easy to miss the little sign outside the Charles Hotel parking garage, but it's worth noting the Charles Hotel Green Parking program.
After I got over my immediate Cambridgey knee-jerk reaction “nobody should drive, we should all be on Public Trans or bikes” attitude, I climbed down off my...
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NeighborMedia Cambridge
Transportation, Neighborhoods
Submitted by lemonshirt
on Sep 24 2009 - 10:40am
The city of Cambridge never ceases to amaze me. Specially when it comes to its asymmetric approach to traffic and parking violation enforcement. Often when driving through Cambridge, I've been witness to countless traffic violations, ranging from cars speeding or running red lights or stops signs...
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NeighborMedia Cambridge
Transportation, Neighborhoods
By Karen Klinger
Increasing the number of off-street parking spots in Cambridge for Zipcars initially might have sounded like a fairly innocuous, green-friendly concept, but it became a hot-button issue when opposition surfaced to the car-sharing company encroaching into residential neighborhoods....
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NeighborMedia Cambridge
Transportation, Neighborhoods
By Karen Klinger
Coming soon to parts of Cambridge with residential zoning and maybe even to your neighbor’s driveway: parking spots for Zipcars owned by the Boston-based vehicle-sharing company.
That, at least, could be the result of changes the city is considering making to zoning regulations...
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NeighborMedia Cambridge
Transportation, Neighborhoods
Probably not on the crosswalk!
Crossing Concord Ave on wheels is sort of like falling off the edge of the earth.
Here’s this nice path leading through the woods from Fresh Pond – and here’s this nice path coming in from Neville Manor, the assisted living facility -- so wheelchairs and bikes can...
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NeighborMedia Cambridge
Transportation, Neighborhoods
Emergency vehicles blared down Massachusetts Avenue for the better part of an hour late this morning, congregating at the Porter Square T station.
Police on the scene gave little information other than informing citizens that there had been “an accident.”
Word, however, trickled down the street...
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NeighborMedia Cambridge
Transportation, Politics