Harassment Is Keeping Women Cyclists Off the Streets

A person rides their bike along a straight, flat, paved trail lined with trees to the left and a power line at right. The rider is approaching a small traffic circle junction with a street sign at left that reads "Speen St". In the middle of the junction is a stone column with the words "Natick Cochituate Rail Trail"

Trails

Natick’s Rail Trail Now Connects to Its Downtown MBTA Station

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Christian MilNeil

A man in a grey shirt bikes down a bike lane between a sidewalk and a row of parked cars on a street lined with 4-5 story buildings and trees.

Street Design

City of Cambridge Reports Better Bike Lanes Led to Surge In Bike Traffic

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Meghan Volcy

Bicycling

Six Mass. Schools Step Up Their Bike Parking Game with New Safe Routes to School Grant

A triptych of "micromobility" vehicles. On the left a woman in a helmet straddles an e-scooter without pedals; in the center, a man in a jacket and a helmet rides a two-wheeled stand-up motorized scooter down a bike lane; on the right, a man rides a nonmotorized red pedal bike.

Legislation

‘Micromobility’ Commission Recommends Improved Classification, Regulation of Motorbikes and Scooters

Two people with shovels stand at the end of a 5-foot-deep canyon of snow at the side of a wide city street on a winter evening

While City Hall Dithers, Boston Cyclists Union Takes Snow Removal Into Their Own Hands

This rendering of Back Bay is from inside the station facing the street. A glass wall shows the Back Bay Logan Express bus passing by. Inside, there is a staircase with blue tiling that leads down to the train platforms. Commuters are walking up the stairs, through the station, and sitting down.

Transit

Construction Is Underway On Back Bay Station Makeover

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Streetsblog Network

Streetsblog Massachusetts

A man walks away from a bus stop where an MBTA bus marked "109 Via Sullivan" is waiting. In the foreground is a crosswalk.

Uncategorized

MBTA’s Phillip Eng Says T Will Exceed Pre-Pandemic Levels of Bus Service This Spring

A view of a multi-track train station from an elevated perspective from a nearby building. A CSX freight train is approaching the platforms from the lower right. Several of the platforms at left are abandoned but there is a newer platform visible in the upper part of the rail yard. In the distance are multi-story masonry buildings of a small city.

MassDOT In Talks With Connecticut for Hourly Springfield-NYC Amtrak Service

Daily headlines

Thursday’s Headlines Lift All Boats

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Elections and Politics

Boston City Council Seeks Oversight of Mayor’s Transportation Agenda

A photo taken from an elevated vantage point of a bulldozer parked in a bike lane with a bucket full of white plastic bollards.

Globe Report Implicates Mayor Michelle Wu In Street Safety, Transit Project Cancellations

A chart titled Massachusetts Average Weekly Retail Gas Prices Per Gallon with dates from Jan. 18 to March 1 on the x axis and prices from 0 to $4 on the y axis. A blue line indicates weekly average prices, which hover just above $3 per gallon for much of the winter until the end of February. The right-most data point is at $3.47 per gallon. An annotation near the March 1 data point indicates the start of the US-Israel attacks on Iran.

Car culture

Trump’s Oil Crisis Is Already Costing Massachusetts Drivers Over $2.4 Million A Day In Higher Gas Prices

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A photograph of a bridge construction zone in winter. In the foreground a metal crash barrier and chain link fence separate a concrete sidewalk (left) from a multi-lane roadway (right). In the middle distance another fence blocks the sidewalk, with an orange "detour" sign pointing right towards the roadway behind an orange construction barrel. In the distance, a crash barrier in the roadway separates car traffic from a temporary sidewalk across the bridge. On the left edge of the photo a second pedestrian bridge joins with the sidewalk.