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Meghan Volcy

A blue event slide titled “State Legislators Update,” with the Massachusetts State House in the background. The date, November 20, 2025, and time, 2:45 PM–4:30 PM, are on the right. At the bottom are photos of Senator Brendan P. Crighton, Representative James Arciero, and Carolyn Ryan, with their roles listed, along with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and State Street logos.

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Legislation

Lawmakers Say Infrastructure Needs More Funding, and Congestion Pricing Should Be On the Table

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Advocacy Opportunities

Sunday Is the World Day of Remembrance

A straight paved trail runs alongside a wooden fence through the autumn woods. To the left, through the trees, a small lake is visible.

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Trails

DCR, MBTA Host ‘Fall Rail Ride’ To Concord and Wachusett This Weekend

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Events

Museum of Science Hosts ‘Pedal Power’ This Weekend

A group of Black women in white dresses standing on the street, holding banners for the Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

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Equity

Black Transportation Justice: A Closer Look at Intersectional Labor Movements

Rosa Parks, wearing a suit and glasses, looks down as a white deputy sheriff fingerprints her during booking in 1956.

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Black Transportation Justice: From Forced Movement to Freedom

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A historic hand-drawn map of subway lines and stations in Boston and Brookline, showing a proposed extension of the old Forest Hills elevated rail line into Roslindale, West Roxbury, and Dedham.

Detail of OL extension proposal from 1945 Metropolitan Transit Recess Commission, credit Steven Beaucher:BPL

Should the Orange Line to Roslindale Be The T’s Next Rapid Transit Expansion?

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Christian MilNeil

A pair of coach buses parked end-to-end inside a garage with a high metal ceiling. The side of the bus features an aerial photo of a river winding through a forest and farm fields in the autumn, next to a logo that reads "Link413". A website address above the bus windows reads bit.ly/Link413.

Link 413 buses in garage credit PVTA

Regional Transit Authorities

More Buses to the Berkshires Coming In 2026

Two curving ramps lead to an upper level (right) and lower leve (left) in a subway station.

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MBTA

The Wrong Kind of Legacy: Old Red Line Trains Find It’s Getting Harder to Get Through Harvard

A view from above of a wide 6-lane highway with a two-lane frontage road in the foreground. To the left is a large mostly empty parking lot. In the middle is a newly-built sidewalk, and a sign with the circular MBTA logo. In the distance, on a hillside above the highway, are a handful of taller buildings in a city neighborhood.

New Bedford T station looking downtown over Highway 18 11.25.2025

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New Bedford City Council Considers Parking Reforms

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A nighttime image of a ghost bike next to a green bike lane on a multi-lane city street. Superimposed text on a purple background reads "More than traffic: rethinking crashes, acknowledging loss" in the lower left, and "GBH Forum Network" in the upper right

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Three people riding bicycles down a paved pathway through a shady park on the SW Corridor. Behind them in the upper right corner is another crowd of people on bikes.

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Bicycling

Want to Try Bike Commuting? Try A ‘Guided Ride’ From A Better City