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Christian MilNeil

A driver with a white beard wearing a green vest and a black baseball cap stands in the door of a red city bus with the MeVa logo on its side. The destination sign on the front of the bus says "61- Newburyport" and a second bus waits behind in the background at left.

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Elections and Politics

Mass. Senate Proposes Fare-Free Buses for Regional Transit Authorities Statewide (But Not the T)

Aaron Lu

A freshly-paved two-lane road is lined with orange construction barrels stretching into the distance. The road is surrounded by trees just beginning to grow their leaves. A wide dirt track runs along the right edge of the pavement.

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Highways

Eyes On the Street: Less Pavement, More Park On Hammond Pond Parkway

A yellow shuttle bus at right drives in a lane separated from other traffic by a row of orange construction cones. A orange barrel in the left foreground shows a sign with a bus icon pointing to the right and a car icon pointing left. High rise office buildings are in the background

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MBTA

Red Line Closed From Park Street to JFK/UMass ‘Til May 10

A city street lined with historic multi-story brick rowhouse buildings with the glass Hancock Tower skyscraper rising above them in the background. In the foreground is an intersection with a traffic light turning yellow and a street sign that says "Appleton Street". A woman in a puffy winter coat is crossing the street. On the right is a newly-painted protected bike lane running between the sidewalk and a row of parked cars.

Berkeley and Appleton November 2023

Street Design

Transit and Bike Riders Will Get More Space On Back Bay Streets This Year

Dan Albert is the author of Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless, the town of Marblehead MBTA Advisory Board representative, and a member of the Metropolitan Planning Organization&#8217;s Vision Zero Task Force.

Dan Albert

A view downhill down a city street lined with modest 2-3 story wooden buildings. A street sign in the middle distance says "Montrose" under a "one way" sign pointing left. Further on, four bright yellow diamond signs mark a crosswalk and bike trail crossing. The crossing is flanked with two speed humps. There is no traffic on the street, only a few parked cars.

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Uncategorized

Can’t-Do Attitudes Block Street Safety In Marblehead

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Events

Open Streets Season Starts May 5 In Dorchester

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Crashes

Oil Industry Shuts Down Interstate 95 In Connecticut

A green line train stops in the middle of Huntington Ave. while a passenger disembarks in the middle of the roadway while other riders wait under a bus shelter on the sidewalk at left.

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Huntington Ave. Redesign Will Eliminate Last Mixed-Traffic Segment of the Green Line By 2027

A bikesharing station kiosk with four parked bikes in a sheltered passageway of a concrete building. The kiosk has a sign that says "Holyoke Community College" and an ad that says "ride an electric-assist bike"

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Bicycling

ValleyBike Bikeshare Will Return This Month After Year-Long Hiatus

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Bay State Bike Month is Off to the Races with Kick-off at Aeronaut Brewing

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