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Highway Boondoggles 2020: Boston’s Big Choice

Highways

‘Big Dig’ Producer Takes His Show On the Road With ‘Highway Teardown Tour’

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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.

City of Boston Restarts Rutherford Avenue Design As Funding Deadline Looms

A view down a long, straight two-lane highway lined with street lamps and newly planted trees. To the left is a large grassy area, several hundred feet wide, with rows of multi-story houses in the distance on the other side.

Housing

MassDOT Begins Marketing Former Freeway Land In Fall River For Transit-Oriented Housing Development

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Meghan Volcy

An aerial map of the Reid Overpass Viaduct and Memorial Drive rotary area in Cambridge, Massachusetts, highlighting project boundaries and notable infrastructure including the Dr. Paul Dudley White Bike Path, Morse School Playground, MRWA CSO Treatment Facility, Goose Park, Class A Life Sciences Building, and the B.U. Boathouse.

MassDOT

See MassDOT’s Plans for a New Highway Interchange on the Cambridge Riverfront

A wide sidewalk path runs alongside a line of cars waiting for a traffic signal in the distance. To the right is an overgrown meadow and a large leafy tree that shades the path. On the left edge a crosswalk leads across the roadway. In the middle distance to the left is a brick-clad highway viaduct.

MassDOT Airs Options for Obsolete Memorial Drive Highway Interchange in Cambridge

A view down a two-lane, one-way street with a wide shared-use path on the right side and a wide grassy lawn to the left. Across the lawn is another street lined with low-rise buildings, with one taller 6-story building standing out in the middle distance.

Eyes on the Street: The Fall of a Freeway in Fall River

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Daily headlines

Friday’s Headlines Take a Free Ride

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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.

Regional Transit Authorities

In Amherst, Delivering Public Transit Is An Extracurricular Activity

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.

MBTA

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

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

Transit

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

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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