Another significant infrastructure investment has slipped through the city’s fingers after Boston’s Streets Cabinet failed to finalize plans in time for a major safety improvement project in the Fenway neighborhood.
Since 2011, the City of Boston has been planning a federally-funded project to repair and address urgent safety hazards at the complex intersection of Park Drive, Boylston Street, and Brookline Avenue – an important connection between the Fenway and the Longwood Medical Area.
More recent iterations of the project would have also rebuilt adjacent parts of Brookline Avenue and Park Drive with a focus on improving bike and pedestrian networks and bringing street infrastructure up to a state of good repair.
In 2022, a Boston Transportation Department spokesperson told StreetsblogMASS that the city was planning “a two-way cycle track on the south side of the Muddy River crossing (the segment of Brookline Avenue between Park Drive and Fenway), as well as a two-way cycle track connecting north along Park Drive to the Fenway Path through the Landmark Center site,” plus the reconstruction of the Boylston Street separated bike lanes with permanent curbing.
The project had been budgeted to receive $8.15 million in federal funds for fiscal year 2026, which ends on June 30th…