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Highway Engineers Sought Exemptions From Safe Street Design Requirements In Springfield’s $19 Million Rebuild of ‘The X’
In Springfield, a city that ranks among the Commonwealth's most dangerous places for traffic violence, the intersection known as "The X" has a special distinction for the volumes of blood that drivers have spilled on its asphalt.
January 15, 2024
Boston’s Next Bus Rapid Transit Line Would Link Downtown, Sullivan Square Before the End of This Decade
An updated new design for Rutherford Avenue would set aside space for a dedicated center-running busway through Boston's Charlestown neighborhood and eliminate highway-style underpasses through Sullivan Square.
January 10, 2024
Lawrence-Haverhill Region Gains Sunday Transit Service With New State Funding
This story has been adapted from a MeVa press release
January 8, 2024
New Year, No Fares: Beacon Hill Bankrolls Dozens of Free Bus Routes Statewide
The state budget that lawmakers passed last summer is bankrolling a major expansion in popular fare-free bus routes across the entire Commonwealth this winter.
January 5, 2024
T Closing Central Green Line Tunnel for Most of January to Fix More Slow Zones
Today, the MBTA is suspending service on the central segments of all four branches of the Green Line for most of January to try and fix some of the track defects that slow down trains between Kenmore Square and North Station.
January 3, 2024
Allston Project’s Next Challenge: Keeping the Turnpike’s Traffic Jams Out of A New ‘Transit-Oriented’ Neighborhood
It's been two years since planners nailed down a consensus for a new alignment for the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston.
January 3, 2024
City of Northampton Seeks Bids to Reboot ValleyBike By April
The City of Northampton has issued a Request for Proposals for companies that can re-start the Connecticut River Valley's mothballed ValleyBike bikesharing system, with a targeted opening date of April 10th.
January 2, 2024
Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2023
2023 might have been the year that the MBTA hit rock-bottom, but according to our website analytics, our readers are still excited about the possibility of a better future.
December 29, 2023
Guest Column: With Data, We Can Design Bus Stops to Make People Feel Happy
When you hear about a space designed to be accessible that has an oasis of felt plants, potted 20-foot-tall trees, and stenciled flowers, a bus stop is probably not the first thing that comes to mind.
December 27, 2023
New Trails We Can Look Forward to In 2024
In the past year, MassDOT and municipalities across the Commonwealth cut ribbons on over a dozen multi-use pathway projects, opening up roughly 20 miles' worth of new bike and pedestrian infrastructure.
December 26, 2023
