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Public Hearing Reveals Support for Automated Enforcement of Bus Lanes in Boston

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Column: What Does the Freedom of Movement Really Mean? Reflections from the Youth Bike Summit

<p>Sam Mintz is currently the editor of <a href="https://brookline.news/">Brookline.News</a>, a nonprofit news website covering the Town of Brookline. Before moving back to the Boston area in 2021, Sam spent five years in D.C. covering Congress and federal agencies for Politico and E&amp;E News.</p>


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A State Cop Ran Her Over In a Brookline Crosswalk. Now Her Grandchildren Demand Answers.

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Crashes

Victim’s Family Files Lawsuit Over Homicide on Hampshire Street Bikeway

An evening city street scene on Boylston Street near Copley Square. On the left side of the photo is a busy sidewalk and a Chick-Fil-A restaurant. On the street in front of the restaurant, four cars, three of them double-parked, occupy the multiple-lane street; a food delivery driver is stepping out of one of the cars while a second car is attempting to drive between the others to fit in closer to the curb.

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Mayor Wu Introduces Ordinance to Regulate Delivery App Companies

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A bird's eye view of an intersection in a residential suburban neighborhood. One street crossing diagonally from lower left to upper right is labelled Concord Street. An intersecting street from the center of the image to lower right is labelled Gorman Road. A building near the top of the image, facing the intersection of those two streets, is labelled Framingham District Court House. A complex of apartments near the left edge is labelled Framingham Housing Authority Musterfield Apartments

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Driver Kills Man On Bike in Framingham

A rendering of a wide street from a birds-eye perspective. The center of the street features a red dedicated busway, with two lanes (one in each direction) separated from adjacent traffic with landscaped medians and bus stop waiting area platforms. General motor vehicle traffic is confined to 1-2 lanes on either side of the busway. Along the sidewalks are green dedicated bike lanes, which are generally separated from the adjacent car lanes by gardens surrounded by curbs. A label in the upper left denotes the Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library, and another label denotes the intersecting street as Walk Hill St.

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Boston’s Bus Lane Projects Are Stuck In Red Tape, Leaving Riders Stuck In Traffic

An extra-long articulated bus in the white, yellow, and black MBTA color scheme waits in traffic on a wide multi-lane street with a red light in the distance. An electronic sign in a side window of the bus says "28 MATTAPAN." A street sign on the left says "Rexford Street".

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Paying With Their Time: Increasing Traffic Congestion Erodes Benefits of Boston’s Fare-Free Buses

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