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Elections and Politics

Globe Report Implicates Mayor Michelle Wu In Street Safety, Transit Project Cancellations

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

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Street Design

Traffic Analysis Shows Newton Bikeway Project Reduced Car Traffic, Speeding, and Crashes

A crowd of approx. 60 people, some seated in four rows of chairs, and more standing against the walls, fills a room facing a podium where a white-haired woman is speaking in front of the Massachusetts state seal and two flags.

Traffic Enforcement Camera Bills Pick Up Speed on Beacon Hill

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Legislation

Policy Riders In Governor’s Budget Proposal Would Legalize Speed Enforcement Cameras, End Debt-Based License Suspensions

A computer animation shows a flashing pedestrian symbol next to an aerial view of a city street where a large dump truck is about to turn onto a side street where a pedestrian is crossing the crowwalk. A note above the crosswalk reads "pedestrian detected." A green triangle surrounding the truck indicates areas where cameras are detecting bikes and pedestrians in the truck's blind spots.

Vision Zero

T Receives Additional Federal Funds to Eliminate Blind Spots On Buses

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Uncategorized

Healey Admin. Announces Summer Fare Discounts, Including Free Fridays, on Commuter Rail System

Two people with Bluebikes wait to cross a wide street towards a park on the other side. On the horizon to the left are four glass towers in downtown Boston.

Daily headlines

Monday’s Headlines Pedal Backwards

Jaime Moore-Carrillo is a journalist based in Boston. A Massachusetts native, Jaime has reported on transportation issues for The Boston Globe and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas.

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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

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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.

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.

MBTA’s Phillip Eng Says T Will Exceed Pre-Pandemic Levels of Bus Service This Spring

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A bicycle rider coasts through an intersection in a bike lane next to two cars and a pickup truck waiting to turn left from the oncoming direction. In the foreground, a row of flexible-post bollards separates the bike lane from the car lanes. A group of pedestrians on the opposite corner waits to cross the street.

Jesse Coburn is a reporter at ProPublica after a stint as Streetsblog’s investigative reporter, where his reporting received a Polk Award, a Sigma Award, and awards from the Silurians Press Club and the Overseas Press Club Foundation. Previously he was a reporter at Newsday and an editor at ARCH+.