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Elections and Politics

House Economic Development Bill Could Include Language to Keep Cars Out of Bus Lanes

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Carter Lavin

A crowd of people gathers around a table covered in the layout plan for a street. Some people are placing sticky notes on the diagram.

Op-ed

Guest Column: An Advocate’s Guide to MPOs, Some of Our Most Critical Transportation Agencies

Christian has edited StreetsblogMASS since its founding in spring 2019. Before that, he was a data reporter for the Portland Press Herald in Maine.
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Christian MilNeil

A trail though leafy woods leads to a tunnel under a roadway in the middle distance. Three signs stacked vertically on a signpost next to the trail in the foreground read "End / Bruce Freeman Rail Trail / Ahead"

Trails

MassTrails Program Grants $12 Million for 65 Trail Projects Statewide

Vision Zero

Truck Drivers Have Caused Two  Deaths In Two Weeks In Cambridge

Amy Dain

A row of 2-story brick buildings line a wide street with a crosswalk in the foreground.

Parking

Upzone Update: New MBTA Zoning Law Prompts Some Suburbs to Re-Think Minimum Parking Rules

Alternative service map graphic for the June 2024 Orange Line closure, showing shuttle service as a dashed black line between North Station and Wellington, and parallel commuter rail service between North Station, Malden Center, and Oak Grove

MBTA

T Suspends North Side Orange Line Service June 22-30

Fans wearing Celtics jerseys disembark from an Orange Line subway train at North Station. Courtesy of the MBTA.

T Promises Championship-Caliber Transit Service for Friday’s Celtics Parade

A map of Somerville highlighting its "priority bike network" from the city's bike plan. The map highlights busier streets that would receive separated bike lanes – like Broadway and Somerville Ave. – in green, and quieter neighborhood streets that would receive traffic calming treatments to serve as shared bike routes in blue.

New Somerville Safe Streets Ordinance Mandates 30-Mile Protected Bike Lane Network By 2030

Events

Open Streets Come to Blue Hill Ave. This Saturday

The end of an MBTA commuter rail train next to a train platform. Purple signs on the platform indicate it is Freetown station. Several workers in yellow vests are under a canopy at the far end of the platform in the distance.

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