Harassment Is Keeping Women Cyclists Off the Streets

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Christian MilNeil

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

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

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Meghan Volcy

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.

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Construction Is Underway On Back Bay Station Makeover

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.

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A bike lane on a wide city street in winter is blocked by a highway crash barrier that extends from the lower left corner of the image to the curb in the middle distance.

MassDOT Construction Project Blocks Busy Allston Bike Route Across I-90

A garden full of grasses and pink coneflowers lines the curb of a city street through a residential neighborhood. In the foreground, on the near side of the garden, is a sidewalk with a newly-planted tree next to an asphalt-paved bike lane. On the far side of the garden, a white SUV travels on the street. Behind the car is a red-painted crosswalk marked with two diamond street signs.

Lynn, Somerville, and Providence Win National Recognition for ‘Best New Bike Lanes’

A person in a teal dress shirt rides through a crosswalk on a green bike lane that lies between a row of parked cars in the middle of the street and a busy sidewalk on the left.

Street Design

Boston Data Show New Bike Lanes Successfully Shift Traffic, With Fewer Cars and Way More Bikes

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A wide, clear sidewalk in downtown Malden Center leads commuters toward the MBTA station, with snow piled at the curb.

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Eyes On the Street: Three Weeks After the Storm, Snow Woes Remain Across Greater Boston

A bar chart titled "ticketed civil violations of Mass. speed limit laws since 2013, source: MassDOT driver citation portal, drivercitationdata.dot.mass.gov. The chart x-axis goes from 2013 (left) to 2025 (right) and the y-axis from 0 to 120,000. The bars show a steady downward trend from 2013 (112,503) to 2020 (55,314), then rebound slightly and plateau around 65,000 in 2024 and 2025.

Policing

Mass. Law Enforcement Data Show Dramatic Decline In Speeding Tickets

Two MBTA buses, white with yellow and black stripes under the windows and the word "ELECTRIC" above, sit in a parking lot under an elaborate steel gantry with charging equipment.

MBTA

Volkswagen’s Crimes Help Finance New Electric Buses In Massachusetts

About 40 cars occupy five lanes of highway in crawling traffic that stretches off to the horizon..

The Climate Emergency

Climate Report Card Gives MassDOT A Failing Grade As Mass. Misses Key Climate Goals

Locator map showing Pittsfield MA, with downtown labelled on the right edge of the map, and W. Housatonic St. (Rt. 20) running horizontally across the center. A red dot in the upper right on Linden St. is labelled "initial crash site"; another red dot along W. Housatonic in the lower left corner of the map, several miles away, is labelled "body recovered"

Crashes

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