Highways

Highway Boondoggles 2020: Boston’s Big Choice

Will the commonwealth will invest in a bold, transformative plan that will help it meet its transportation and climate goals, or will it rebuild the auto-intensive infrastructure of generations ago?

By Christian MilNeil

9:32 AM EST on January 4, 2021

Highway Boondoggles 2020: Boston’s Big Choice

The site of the future West Station, seen from the Cambridge Street overpass in Allston. A realignment of the Massachusetts Turnpike through this area could touch off a massive urban development scheme on the vacant Harvard-owned lands visible in the distance – but only if the state can figure out how to pay for it.

Christian MilNeil

Christian has edited StreetsblogMASS since its founding in spring 2019. Before that, he was a data reporter for the Portland Press Herald in Maine. Got tips? Send them to me via Signal, the encrypted messaging app, at 207-310-0728.

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