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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — New black and white barriers have popped up along a bike lane in Boston, as the city tests out a different tool to separate cars and cyclists.
The raised, oblong mounds, also called “zebra barriers,” are currently installed along Arlington Street between Stuart and Boylston streets.
Future, a local resident who bikes to work, said she saw the barriers being installed one or two weeks ago.
The barriers are an alternative to divisive flex posts. The city of Boston said in April that it would start reducing the number of flex posts along bike lanes.
“I like the [barriers] better actually, because the posts, when people do run into them, they fall down and that adds more obstruction to the street or to the bike lane,” Future said.
Sarah, another local resident said she also likes the barriers but that drivers might not be able to see them as easily as the posts.
“I like them better because they don’t fall over and get in the way, but I don’t know what it’s like in a car to see the divider between the bike path and the driving lane,” Sarah said.
WBZ NewsRadio has reached out to the city of Boston for comment.
WBZ’s James Rojas (@JamesRojas.bsky.social) reports.