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MassDOT

An Updated Guide To Boston’s Allston/I-90 Megaproject

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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.

Fall River Davol St redevelopment land looking SE from Brightman 11.25.2025

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.

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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.

Rotary crosswalk at Mem Dr and BU Bridge

Highways

MassDOT Airs Options for Obsolete Memorial Drive Highway Interchange in Cambridge

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Davol St looking south towards Turner St 11.25.2025

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

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Elections and Politics

Trump Budget Proposal Seeks To Decimate Federal Transit Funding

Temporary fencing lines the sidewalk on the DCR-controlled approach to the Beades Bridge. Google Street View imagery suggests that the temporary fencing has been there for nearly 8 years. Photo by Tony Dutzik.

Beades Bridge West Sidewalk

MassDOT Highway Administrator Discusses Challenges of Aging Highways and Rising Costs

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A sidewalk buried in a messy mixture of snow and slush along a busy city street in a neighborhood commercial area lined with one-story retail buildings.

Harvard Ave sidewalk snow near Brighton Ave 01.28.2026

Walking

Eyes On the Street: Days After the Storm, Boston’s Sidewalks Are An Inaccessible Mess

A coach bus with a headsign reading "904 Pittsfield TC" and a logo that says "Link413" drives down the main street of a small city on a sunny winter morning.

Link413 in Northampton on Jan 28 2026 credit PVTA

Regional Transit Authorities

Link413 Launches Three New Bus Routes Linking North Adams, Pittsfield, Greenfield, and Northampton

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MBTA

The Red Line’s Old Trains Can’t Cope With the Cold

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Legislation

Healey Budget Bill Would Balance MBTA Budgets for One More Year

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A detail of the proposed new street grid from the MassDOT concept plan for the Allston/I-90 Multimodal Project. The map shows three new north-south connector streets between West Station (near the bottom of the map, next to I-90) and Cambridge Street (near the top of the map). Most of those streets feature four or more lanes for motor vehicle traffic.

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A line of large cars waits at a highway off-ramp at right as three kids on bikes approach the camera on a long crosswalk next to a multi-lane highway. Above the offramp at right is a large electronic billboard rising up into the blue sky.

Kids riding bikes on Mystic Valley Parkway crosswalk over I93 offramp Medford 07.23.2024

Gov. Healey’s Environmental Bond Bill Would Surrender Dept. of Conservation ‘Parkways’ to State Highway Agency