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"Cutting almost half of a transit system is not a way to make it more efficient. It more like asking whether you’d like to keep your heart or your lungs."
Massachusetts Families for Safe Streets will advocate for life-saving changes to streets and public policy while also offering support to families who have lost loved ones to roadway violence.
Buses would also use the proposed new Green Line E branch transitway to bypass traffic between Heath Street and Brigham Circle.
Starting this week, trains between Oak Grove and Assembly will operated with a maximum speed of 55 mph, compared to 40 mph before.
The state's park agency is tearing up two highway lanes' worth of asphalt to convert half of an obsolete highway back into parkland in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston.
