Work to begin Boston’s Boylston Street bike, bus lane project [Video]

Construction work began overnight in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood on a controversial project that will reduce some parts of Boylston Street down to one lane of traffic while making room for a bus and bike lane.Work began at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and will expand eastward toward Arlington Street over the duration of the project, city officials said. The end result will be a bicycle lane on one side of Boylston Street that will run from Massachusetts Avenue to Arlington Street, as well as a bus lane on the other side of Boylston that will be bus only in one stretch on weekdays from 4 to 7 p.m.”There are many people who ride bicycles right now who are facing a dangerous circumstance where they’re trying to navigate through traffic so anything we can do to protect bikers is important, as well as pedestrians,” Boston’s Chief of Economic Opportunity and …