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A pedestrian crosses Tremont Street in a new crosswalk. In the foreground is a newly-installed median island, about the size of a parked car, that is paved in bricks and ringed by a granite curb. To its left are two lanes for two-way car traffic; to its right is an asphalt-paved bike lane, and a second curb at the right edge of the photo delineates the street's sidewalk. A smaller granite curb island is located at the far side of the crosswalk, and two other pairs of islands in a similar configuration protect the crosswalk on the opposite side of the intersection. Historic brick rowhomes line both sides of the street. In the distance is a church steeple.

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Bicycling

Eyes On the Street: Portions of New Tremont St. Protected Bike Lane Are Ready to Ride

An aerial view of Fall River's Route 79 expressway, looking south towards downtown Fall River (top left) and Mt. Hope Bay (top right). The view is dominated by the massive Route 79, which occupies 8 to 14 lanes alongside wide expanses of empty grass along Fall River's waterfront. Along the left edge of the photo is visible the densely-populated residential neighborhoods of Fall River's North End.

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Highways

MassDOT Is Demolishing a Highway to Give Fall River Its Waterfront Back

Worcester City Hall, an imposing Italianate building with a tall clock tower, and Worcester's Main Street on a gray December day.

Worcester City Hall and the newly rebuilt Main Street, pictured in December 2020.

Street Design

Worcester City Hall Poaches Longtime Brookline Planner for New Transportation Department

The aftermath of a car crash. A gold-colored Toyota sedan is buried in rubble with its front end poking into a barbershop on the ground floor of a two-story brick building with several small business storefronts. Above it, a section of the building's wall is completely collapsed, leaving second-floor offices exposed to the open air. Several firefighters mill about in the foreground across the street.

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Crashes

Driver Demolishes Small Businesses in Roslindale Square

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A Bluebikes dock at the Green Street Orange Line station in Jamaica Plain.

Bluebikes at a T station

Seasonal Station Removals Put Dorchester’s Bluebikes Network on Ice

A rendering of the MBTA's proposed new South Side Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility, a large grey-and-white warehouse building. The MBTA's T logo is located on the corner of the building above an entrance doorway.

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MassDOT

MBTA Is On A Shopping Spree for Commuter Train Parking

<p>Sam Mintz is currently the editor of <a href="https://brookline.news/">Brookline.News</a>, a nonprofit news website covering the Town of Brookline. Before moving back to the Boston area in 2021, Sam spent five years in D.C. covering Congress and federal agencies for Politico and E&amp;E News.</p>


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Sam Mintz

A woman wearing a sweatshirt, patterned skirt, and bike helmet pedals a battery-powered e-bike with a large cargo compartment that's covered in a red fabric tent in front of her handlebars.

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Prospective Buyers Await Details of Mass. E-Bike Rebate Program

A historic black-and-white photograph of Charlesgate Park before the Bowker Overpass and Storrow Drive existed. The photo is taken from an elevated vantage point looking down at the Muddy River and the bridges that carry Commonwealth Avenue, Beacon Street, and Back Street over it. In the foreground two Model T-type cars drive along a mostly empty Commonwealth Avenue while a man crosses the street on foot in front of them. In the background is the Charles River and the Harvard Bridge, and the Great Dome of MIT is visible on the other side of the river in a mostly industrial riverfront district in Cambridge.

Charlesgate c. 1930 credit Leslie Jones, Boston Public Library

MassDOT Plans to Tweak Its Highway ‘Blunder’ in Back Bay

A rendering of a proposed Columbus Avenue busway, looking down at the street from above, with the Northeast Corridor railroad tracks at left, the Southwest Corridor bike and walking paths, and center-running bus lanes on Columbus Avenue, with bus shelters located between the bus lanes and the general-purpose motor vehicle lanes.

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Our First Look at Boston’s Plans to Extend Columbus Ave. Bus Lanes

A large crowd of people celebrate the Green Line extension's opening day outside a snowy Ball Square station while some kids play on a snowy hillside next to the station entrance.

Ball Square station, Green Line Extension, December 12, 2022

MBTA

Opening Day: The Green Line Arrives In Medford

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