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Highways

Highway Boondoggles 2023: This Year’s Poster Children for Bad Projects

A wide intersection where four lanes of cars are stopped at a red light on the left, and two lanes of cars are streaming through the intersection on the right. At the far edge of the left, a second roadway intersects. Trees line both sides of the highway.

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Crashes

Driver Seriously Injures Woman On A DCR Highway in West Cambridge

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Christian MilNeil

A bike lane, marked by two parallel white lines, with a row of flexible-post bollards in between the two white lines. In the foreground is a speed hump marked with white triangles. A row of cars is parked on the left side of the street. The Lamartine Street traffic signal is visible in the distance.

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Bicycling

Eyes On the Street: Safer Side Streets In Jamaica Plain

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MBTA

TransitMatters Analysis Confirms Success of Last Month’s Red Line Track Work

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Elections and Politics

Election Day: How to Vote and Races We’re Watching

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Amtrak

Feds Announce $16.4 Billion for Northeast Corridor Passenger Rail Projects

A historic color photograph of the North Station area in Boston looking north toward Cambridge. The train platforms of North Station are in the center, and above them are an under-construction highway viaduct. To the left of that bridge is a triangular concrete tower, which would later become the Zakim Bridge. To the right of that is an older double-decker highway, which was the previous route of I-93 through downtown Boston. The Charles River runs from left to lower right in the middle of the photo and I-93 meanders into the distant horizon at upper center.

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An Interview With the Producer of GBH’s ‘The Big Dig’ Podcast

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Legislation

Legislature’s Latest Attempt for Automated Traffic Enforcement Is Missing the Bus

A two-frame animation shows the current-day view of the Bowker Overpass compared with a rendering illustration of the same view after a new highway project is complete. The current-day view shows a patched-up highway overpass extending over a railroad and multi-lane freeway that runs horizontally across the middle of the image. Beyond the highway, the overpass continues over city streets among the treetops in a park. In the rendering, a new overpass runs along the same course, but two on- and off-ramps connecting the overpass to the surface streets in the distance have been removed, and a second, parallel bridge carries three lanes of traffic and a wide bike and pedestrian path to the left.

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More Details On MassDOT’s Plans to Rebuild Bowker Overpass

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The Climate Emergency

Climate Chief Wants MassDOT To Start Treating the Climate Emergency Like an Actual Emergency

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