New State Rule Would Force Suburbs to Legalize Thousands of New Apartments Near T Stops
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The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), a public regional planning agency based in Boston, estimates that the proposed guidelines would collectively create a zoning capacity for 344,000 multifamily housing units across the region.
Wednesday’s Headlines Are Almost Here
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A Green Line extension in Boston is among 22 transit projects expected to open in 2022, along with others in L.A., San Francisco, Milwaukee, Seattle and more.
City of Springfield Proposes Road Diet, Traffic Calming for Deadly Downtown Block
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State Street in Springfield ranks as one of the Commonwealth's deadliest streets, and it runs through the middle of the city's historically Black neighborhoods. A city proposal would introduce measures to calm traffic, but it's limited to just one block on the edge of the city's downtown.
DCR Announces Scaled-Back Memorial Drive Road Diet for 2024
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The latest proposal, as described in the ENF, would reconstruct a 0.8-mile length of Memorial Drive and its multi-use pathways between the Eliot Bridge and the Anderson Bridge (JFK Street).
RETURN TO SENDER: USPS Decarbonization Plan is Weak, Say Advocates
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Sustainability leaders are furious at the United States Postal Service for dragging its feet on ditching gas-powered mail trucks and other vehicles — and the agency doesn't seem to be seriously considering non-automotive mail delivery options, either.
2021 Was A Record-Breaking Year For Deaths on Massachusetts Roadways
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At least 408 people died in crashes in Massachusetts during 2021, making it the deadliest year on Massachusetts roadways in over a decade.
Outgoing DA Rollins Launches Criminal Investigation Into MBTA Safety
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"When their acts and omissions put the safety of community members and their own employees at risk, sometimes the only means of driving change is through the courts, and public demands for action," said DA Rollins in a statement announcing the criminal probe.
Friday’s Headlines Chart a New Course
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Transit agencies became more equitable in 2021, but some of those open street programs? Unfortunately, not so much.
MassDOT Shares Early Concepts for Taming Wellington Circle
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Local stakeholders in an advisory working group expressed a desire to see less asphalt and fewer lanes through the intersections in MassDOT's proposed designs.
Rural Communities Are Struggling to Pay for Their Car-Dependent Infrastructure
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A new report from the Massachusetts Office of the State Auditor calls for more spending on rural roads, but fails to address related and more urgent needs for more energy- and cost-efficient transportation in rural areas.
Baker Admin. Moves to Adopt California’s Electric Truck Mandates
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California’s new regulation would require zero-emission engines in an increasing proportion of truck sales, ranging from delivery vans to big rigs.