The Complete Streets Policy emphasizes designing City-owned streets for all modes of transportation.
Vision Zero is the City’s approach to eliminating transportation-related fatalities and severe injuries through prevention strategies.
The Cambridge Bicycle Plan (existing and proposed) provides the framework for developing a network of Complete Streets and supporting programs and policies that will help meet the goal of enabling people of all ages and abilities to bike safely and comfortably throughout the city.
The Cambridge Transit Strategic Plan provides City goals and objectives to improve transit in Cambridge in order to meet economic development goals, livability, social equity, and environmental objectives.
The Urban Forestry Master Plan provides strategies for the evaluation, maintenance, and expansion of the urban forest in order to improve resiliency, combat the urban heat island effect, and regulate runoff.
Envision Cambridge is a citywide plan to create a more sustainable, equitable, and inclusive community.
The Climate Action Plan describes how the City will reduce emissions across the entire city to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
The New Mobility Blueprint is still being created. When complete, it will provide actionable recommendations for policies, programs, and regulations that will help the City implement new mobility options in a way that aligns with existing values and policies.
The Vehicle Trip Reduction Ordinance prioritizes alternatives to single-occupancy vehicle travel.
The Parking and Transportation Demand Management (PTDM) Ordinance builds off the Vehicle Trip Reduction Ordinance and requires commercial or other non-residential parking facilities of a certain size to have a Parking and Transportation Demand Management plan in order to reduce vehicle trips.
The First Street Garage Parking Study examines the parking supply and utilization in the area of the First Street Garage.
The Cambridge Growth Policy emphasizes walking, biking, transit, and low emission vehicles and establishes urban design and open space objectives.
The Kendall Square Mobility Task Force and Transportation Kendall reports envision the future of transportation in the Kendall Square area, taking into account the major growth that has occurred there in recent years, as well as the changes projected moving forward.
The MBTA Green Line serves Lechmere Station from Boston, with planned extensions to Medford and Somerville. The 69, 80, 87, and 88 buses also serve Lechmere Station.
The MBTA Red Line serves Kendall Square, connecting to Alewife in the west, and Boston, Quincy and Braintree to the southeast. There are nearby connections to the 64, 68, 85 and CT2 buses.
Private Transit Services
The EZRide shuttle bus is open to the public and managed by the Charles River TMA. It connects North Station, East Cambridge, Kendall Square, and Cambridgeport. It has a stop on First Street at Otis Street, and First Street at Charles Street.
The CambridgeSide Shuttle Bus is free shuttle service that operates between CambridgeSide and the Kendall Square MBTA Station. The shuttle runs every twenty minutes from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., seven days each week.
The Alexandria Real Estate Equites Shuttle Bus is a private shuttle bus for employees of Alexandria Real Estate Equity or their tenant companies which operates between MBTA North Station and Alexandria’s buildings in East Cambridge and Cambridgeport.
The CambridgeSide 2.0 Project by New England Development (NED) includes the redevelopment of the CambridgeSide mall site into a mixed-use project. View the Cambridgeside 2.0 Special Permit Application.
The MIT Volpe Redevelopment Project by MIT on the site of the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center by would create a new mixed-use development. View the MIT Volpe Redevelopment Project Special Permit Application.
The North Point/Cambridge Crossing Project development by DivcoWest Real Estate Investments is the redevelopment of the former industrial sites in the North Point area of Cambridge into a mixed-use area with residential and commercial uses. View the North Point/Cambridge Crossing Special Permit Application.
The 40 Thorndike Project by Leggat McCall Properties involves the redevelopment of the former Sullivan Courthouse to include retail, residential, and commercial uses. View the 40 Thorndike Project Special Permit Application.
The First Street Assemblage Project by Urban Spaces LLC assembled multiple sites on First Street into residential, office and retail projects. View the First Street Assemblage Project Special Permit Application.
The Binney Street Redevelopment Project by Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. assembled multiple sites on Binney Street into research and development, residential, and retail projects. View the Binney Street Redevelopment Project Special Permit Application.
The Cambridge Five-Year Sidewalk and Street Reconstruction Plan is comprehensive plan for designing streets that safely accommodates all user- pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and public transportation users of all ages and abilities.
The Streetscape Redesign for Binney/Galileo/Broadway connects existing bicycle and sidewalk infrastructure on Vassar and Binney and holistically incorporates a multi-modal streetscape design with streetscape amenities and landscaping. The Cambridge Redevelopment Authority has finalized design documents for the project which includes Galileo Galilei Way, Binney Street (from 3rd to Fulkerson), and Broadway (from Ames to Galileo).
The re-design and re-construction of O'Brien Highway from Land Boulevard to Third Street, is being completed by the Cambridge Crossing developer in cooperation with the City of Cambridge and MassDOT. This project is a requirement of the Planning Board's Special Permit (PB179) for the development project.
The Green Line Extension (GLX) will extend the existing MBTA Green Line service north of Lechmere Station and into the communities of Cambridge, Medford, and Somerville.
The Grand Junction Multi-use Path is a proposed off-street multi-use path, that will run alongside the existing railroad tracks in the Grand Junction corridor from Boston University Bridge to Somerville.