Blue Hill Ave

Two years after the first center-running bus lanes in New England opened on Columbus Avenue, Boston is pursuing another. Depending on feedback from residents, Blue Hill Avenue’s drivers could lose a lane.

City officials say they are moving forward with plans for an ambitious redesign of one of the city’s, and the Commonwealth’s, most persistently dangerous roadways: the three-mile stretch of Blue Hill Avenue connecting Mattapan to Dorchester’s Grove Hall.

When city and state officials gathered at the corner of Columbus and Walnut Avenues in October to mark the opening of the city’s first center-running bus lane, notably absent was representation from the Garrison Trotter Neighborhood Association, the resident group that claims many of the streets around the new lane.