Boston may actually add bike lanes?

In July, the city plans to unveil its first designated bike lanes, on Commonwealth Avenue between the Boston University Bridge and Kenmore Square. The city may also add bike lanes to Massachusetts Avenue between Albany Street and Huntington Avenue, Tremont Street along Boston Common, and on American Legion Highway, which runs past Franklin Park.

By year's end, officials plan to install 250 bike racks across the city and 750 over the next three years.

Longtime cyclists hope it happens. Boston is known far and wide as one of the most inhospitable cities for bikers, an obstacle course of gaping construction sites, tire-popping potholes, and lead-footed drivers.