Bike lanes and sharrows on Dorchester Avenue are expected to be installed by the end of July (you can see some of them on the road right now!). The lanes start at Broadway in South Boston and end at Hoyt St., which is part of the Glover’s Corner intersection that includes Freeport Street.
Click here to see a Google map of where the bike lanes and sharrows will be on Dorchester Ave.
There will be sharrows (markers that indicate bikes share the road with cars – see the photo at the right) instead of bike lanes around Andrew Square, and continuing from Hoyt St. south to where Dorchester Ave. ends in Lower Mills.
Plans for intersection redesigns, including bike boxes in Fields Corner at Centre, Park and Gibson streets, at Glover’s Corner and Savin Hill Ave. and in Andrew Square are in the works. On Talbot Avenue, bike lanes are going to be installed within 2 months.
The MBTA is using $4.8 million in federal funds to construct up to eight new bike cages (now called Pedal & Park), with one at Ashmont T station to open in Spring 2011.
The P&Ps can hold 300 bikes, are monitored by video cameras and require a special-coded Charlie Card to get inside. Bike CharlieCards are free of charge and obtainable from station staff where P&Ps are located.
It’s riding weather, but not all of the Dot Bike regulars ride on Dorchester Ave. daily. So if you see bike lanes painted, please let them know at dotbike@bostonbiker.org.
