Boston and its surrounding suburbs have added 14 miles of bus lanes during the pandemic.

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Meghan Volcy

A rendering of the Alford Street Bridge in Boston with a red-painted dedicated busway in the roadway (far right) next to a two-way bike path (center right) and the existing bridge sidewalk (left). In the distance is visible the high-rise Encore Casino.

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Wheels Start Turning For the Lower Broadway – Alford Street Transit Priority Corridor Project

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Christian MilNeil

A view of the new Columbus Ave. bus lanes and the new bus platforms at Walnut Avenue.

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Wu Administration Delays Columbus Ave. Transit Project; City Hall Planners Told to Cancel Meetings With MBTA

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.

Congress Allocates $80 Million to Build Blue Hill Ave. Busway

A satellite view of Rutherford Avenue in Charleston, with Sullivan Square in the upper left and the Charles River in the lower right, highlighting the 25-acre footprint of the roadway in red.

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

A Route 44 bus on Dudley Street in Nubian Square.

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USDOT Cancels $20 Million Pledge to Fund Street and Transit Improvements In Roxbury

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Jaime Moore-Carrillo

A photo of UMass Transit employee Ash Larner driving a city bus don a downtown street. The photo is taken from behind the driver's seat of a city bus, with Larner's face visible in profile the rear-view mirror at upper right.

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In Amherst, Delivering Public Transit Is An Extracurricular Activity

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

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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.

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