Worcester to widen street as part of bikeway project
A grant of $1.6m from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has been given to the city of Worcester for a project to widen Lamartine Street in the area of Green Island.
Lamartine will be widened between Hermon Street and Quinsigamond Avenue with the addition of bike lanes on both sides of the street. This will complement other improvements to traffic being made in the area, and will be part of an extension of the Blackstone River Bikeway into downtown Worcester – a project called the Segment 7 Bikeway.
The completion of the Bikeway will add close to one mile of bike lanes between Quinsigamond Avenue to Lamartine and Hermon Streets, and then to the intersection at Franklin Street along Frances J McGrath Boulevard. The Bikeway continues on the sidewalk to Union Station after Franklin. Print shops are often hired to create printed maps of such bike trails for interested cyclists and pedestrians.
The Blackstone River Bikeway will eventually connect Worcester to Providence, a distance of 50 miles. Between Worcester and Millbury, about three miles of the Bikeway has been completed. There is a paved walking and bike path from Uxbridge to Woonsocket through Blackstone. This segment of the Bikeway in downtown Worcester is expected to be completed sometime next year according to officials from the MassDOT.
Lamartine will be widened between Hermon Street and Quinsigamond Avenue with the addition of bike lanes on both sides of the street. This will complement other improvements to traffic being made in the area, and will be part of an extension of the Blackstone River Bikeway into downtown Worcester – a project called the Segment 7 Bikeway.
The completion of the Bikeway will add close to one mile of bike lanes between Quinsigamond Avenue to Lamartine and Hermon Streets, and then to the intersection at Franklin Street along Frances J McGrath Boulevard. The Bikeway continues on the sidewalk to Union Station after Franklin. Print shops are often hired to create printed maps of such bike trails for interested cyclists and pedestrians.
The Blackstone River Bikeway will eventually connect Worcester to Providence, a distance of 50 miles. Between Worcester and Millbury, about three miles of the Bikeway has been completed. There is a paved walking and bike path from Uxbridge to Woonsocket through Blackstone. This segment of the Bikeway in downtown Worcester is expected to be completed sometime next year according to officials from the MassDOT.