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Eyes On the Street: Better Bike Lanes For Allston and Brighton
The Boston Transportation Department has been busy in Brighton this fall: the city has reconfigured three neighborhood streets to calm traffic and add separated lanes for bikes and scooters.
October 15, 2024
The 1,000-Page Document That Decides Your Street Designs Just Got a Refresh
For better — or more often, for worse — a single federal document dictates what nearly every American street looks like. Meet the MUTCD.
October 11, 2024
MBTA, Amtrak Warn That MassDOT’s Allston Highway Megaproject Could Inflict ‘Significant’ Impacts On Regional Rail
MBTA officials warn that commuter rail service "would cease within weeks" if MassDOT follows through on plans to demolish a critical rail bridge for the Allston Multimodal Project in Boston.
October 10, 2024
Blue Cross Offers Free Bluebikes Trips for World Mental Health Day
For World Mental Health Day, Blue Cross, title sponsor of Bluebikes, is offering free Bluebikes day passes on Thursday, Oct. 10.
October 10, 2024
T Will Launch New ‘Frequent-Service’ Bus Routes in December, But Overall Service Still Remains Below Pre-Covid Levels
The T is officially moving ahead with plans to launch "phase one" of its long-planned Bus Network Redesign on December 15, even though overall bus service in the MBTA system still remains about 12 percent below what the agency offered before the Covid-19 pandemic.
October 9, 2024
Orange Line Service In JP, Roxbury Is Taking A 13-Day Break For Track Work
The MBTA will attempt to fix some of its last remaining slow zones on the Orange Line with a 13-day closure through Oct. 20th on the segment south of Back Bay station.
October 7, 2024
State Officials Say Work to Improve Safety at Lethal Memorial Drive Crash Site Will Begin On Monday
The state's parks agency will reduce Memorial Drive's speed limit and create more space for the area's busy bike and pedestrian traffic.
October 4, 2024
State Police Have Not Arrested John Corcoran’s Killer
A State Police spokesperson has informed StreetsblogMASS that the suspected killer in last week's homicide on the Paul Dudley White Bike Path in Cambridge has not been arrested, although their driving license has been suspended.
October 4, 2024
Bluebikes Celebrates 25 Million Rides With $25 Credits
The following brief is a lightly edited version of a Bluebikes press release.
October 2, 2024
Red Line’s Braintree Branch Reopens With 37 Fewer Slow Zones
By eliminating dozens of slow zones, the T expects the typical round-trip on this segment of the Red Line to run 24 minutes faster than it did a month ago.
September 30, 2024
