Boston’s inbound bus lane on Washington Street in Roslindale

the pilot began, BTD worked with MAPC to collect Since cars were already restricted on the inbound parking data and better understand the impacts side of the street, it was easier to schedule the pilot if parking were to be removed. [...] The City partnered with the MBTA large number of the parking spaces on Washington and Boston Police Department to ensure that only Street between Roslindale Square and the Forest buses and bikes were using the dedicated space. [...] All the on-the-ground efforts by LSA, local groups, and volunteers, including extensive surveying of roadway users, ultimately led to one of the biggest talking points about the project – that 94 percent of people riding the bus along Washington Street supported the bus lane. [...] Converting the parking lane to use as a bus lane seemed as much of an issue of fairness as anything else and it turned out the intervention ended up saving bus riders at least an hour of commuting time in the mornings over the course of a week. [...] When we saw that 94% of bus riders supported the lane, we knew this was an intervention we should replicate around the City.” – Patrick Hoey, Boston Transportation Department Roslindale Implementation // LSA What happened next? After the success of the inbound bus lane, the Boston Transportation Department, in partnership with the MBTA, implemented an outbound afternoon peak bus lane on Washington.