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MassDOT

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

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Meghan Volcy

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Street Design

MassDOT Makes More Space for Bikes and Pedestrians In Revised Designs for Medford Main Street

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Allston I-90 viaduct in 2024

Legislation

U.S. House Moves to Rescind $3.1B for Reconnecting Communities Divided by Highways

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An aerial map of a small town village, labelled "Village of North Truro", bisected by a wide highway that cuts from the top edge of the image to the lower right corner. A wide buffer around the highway is highlighted in pink to indicate the state-owned right-of-way, which dwarfs the size of the adjacent village. A white area in the upper right corner indicates the site of a new housing development called "Cloverleaf" and the main street running through the village and under the highway, connecting to two highway off-ramp loops, is labelled as Highland Road.

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Highways

Truro Is Converting Part of An Obsolete Highway Interchange to Affordable Housing

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Congestion Pricing Works in Small Metros, Too

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Advocacy Opportunities

BREAKING: U.S. DOT Orders Review of All Grants Related to Green Infrastructure, Bikes

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State Parks Agency Hosts Yet Another Hearing for Arborway Redesign

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A chart shows how much land in Woburn Center is buried under asphalt and concrete pavement (about 9.5 acres) compared to buildings (7.5 acres) and the green space of the town's central common (just 0.5 acres). The left side of the image shows an aerial view of the area around the Town Common, with a 150-meter circle around the central Civil War Monument highlighted. A pie chart of the right side shows the proportion of that circle that's paved vs. building area vs. green space.

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A Common Story: Traffic Engineers Pit Safety Improvements Against Parking In Woburn Center Project

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Daily headlines

Monday’s Headlines, Ranked

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Equity

Black Transportation Justice: How Mobility Affects Housing, Health, and Freedom in a Modern World

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Black Transportation Justice Boston Spotlight: Mattapan Food and Fitness

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Environment

MIT Research Finds Increasing Heat Makes Cities Measurably Less Walkable

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Trails

MassDOT Reveals New Designs, Timeline for Delayed Mystic River Car-Free Bridge Project

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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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Elections and Politics

IT’S WORKING: Initial Data Show Congestion Pricing Has Stemmed The Tide of Years of Increasing Traffic