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MassDOT Reveals New Designs, Timeline for Delayed Mystic River Car-Free Bridge Project
MassDOT now says it hopes to open the bridge before 2030 – a more ambitious timeline than agency officials had reported just a few weeks ago.
June 25, 2025
Black Transportation Justice: A Closer Look at Intersectional Labor Movements
Throughout the 20th century, Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor and feminism along the way.
June 24, 2025
Black Transportation Justice Boston Spotlight: Public Transit Public Good
As part of Part II of the three-part series from reporter Meghan Volcy on the intersection of Black history and the pursuit of equity and justice in transportation throughout the United States’ history, she spoke to Natalicia Tracy, Executive Director of Community Labor United, to learn more about her work with Public Transit Public Good and how the legacy of Black labor organizing continues to shape Boston's present-day transit justice movement.
June 24, 2025
Black Transportation Justice: From Forced Movement to Freedom
Part one of a three-part series.
June 20, 2025
SW Corridor Orange Line Service Suspended June 21-29
The MBTA is suspending service on Boston's segment of the Orange Line for the next nine days, starting Saturday June 21, to install new a new signal system.
June 20, 2025
Legislature’s Fair Share Budget Compromise Gets MBTA Closer to Budget Fix
A compromise on the Fair Share supplemental budget makes it more likely the T will be able to afford its projected $3.24 billion operating budget for 2026.
June 17, 2025
Want to Try Bike Commuting? Try A ‘Guided Ride’ From A Better City
This month, A Better City, a business organization focused on improving Boston's infrastructure, is hosting a series of "guided rides" to give novice bike commuters the knowledge and confidence they need to navigate the Boston region on a bike.
June 16, 2025
Eyes On the Street: The Northern Strand Gets A Protected Path Through Downtown Lynn
A trail project that connects several streets in Lynn is adding better bus stops, safer crosswalks, and more greenery to the city's downtown.
June 16, 2025
Column: What Does the Freedom of Movement Really Mean? Reflections from the Youth Bike Summit
While dozens of young people, many of them young people of color, celebrated each others’ accomplishments at the Youth Bike Summit earlier this month, there was also a heaviness at the weekend’s event regarding the growing presence and threat of anti-immigrant policing in communities across the country.
June 13, 2025
MBTA Hosts Its First Public Hearing for Lynnway Redesign Project
Nearly three years after winning a $20 million federal grant, the MBTA hosted its first public forum on Wednesday evening for a proposed transit-focused redesign of the Lynnway, a major highway that slices across Lynn's waterfront district.
June 13, 2025
