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Regional Transit Authorities

New Year, No Fares: Beacon Hill Bankrolls Dozens of Free Bus Routes Statewide

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MBTA

T Closing Central Green Line Tunnel for Most of January to Fix More Slow Zones

A concept plan shows a grid of new streets – most of which are 4-5 lanes wide – overlaid on top of the vacant triangle of land between Cambridge Street and I-90 in Allston. Four new streets, labelled (from west to east) Seattle St. Connector, Stadium Way Connector, Cattle Drive Connector, and East Drive Connector – would run north-south from I-90 to Cambridge Street. Four other streets would run east-west, roughly parallel to I-90 and the Worcester Line train tracks: two streets are essentially frontage roads for I-90, the northerly (eastbound) which is labelled "Lincoln St. Connector". A block north is a street labelled "Cambridge St. South." And in the northeastern tip of the triangle, running only between Stadium Way Connector and Soldiers Field Road, is a street labelled "Hotel Way"

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Highways

Allston Project’s Next Challenge: Keeping the Turnpike’s Traffic Jams Out of A New ‘Transit-Oriented’ Neighborhood

A row of docked blue, white, and black ValleyBike shared bikes parked along a paved street under the shade of some leafy trees.

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City of Northampton Seeks Bids to Reboot ValleyBike By April

An architect's rendering shows two bridges crossing a river. The illustration of the new bridge, on the right, shows a bridge with large arches swooping over the water. The illustration is superimposed on a photograph that shows an existing, plainer railroad bridge on the right.

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Passengers cross a boarding platform painted in floral patterns to board or debark from an MBTA 116 bus, which is on the right side of the photo facing the camera. To the left, numerous potted plants and trees surround a bus shelter.

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Street Design

Guest Column: With Data, We Can Design Bus Stops to Make People Feel Happy

Although the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail bridge over Route 2 is still officially closed for construction, people are making their way around the existing barricades and riding their bikes on it. The left photo shows the paved portion on the south side of Route 2, while the right photo shows the unfinished, gravel portion on the northside just a few feet away. Both photos were taken this past Saturday, June 25th.

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New Trails We Can Look Forward to In 2024

An arch of the newly refurbished Lechmere Viaduct, pictured from Charles River Dam Road.

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MBTA Knocks Down 22 More Slow Zones, Including Lechmere Viaduct

Mass. Central Rail Trail in Weston and Waltham. Solid green lines indicate trail sections that have been completed; the longer green dashed line marked (2) in Waltham is a trail segment that's currently under construction (as of 2022), and the grey dashed line in the center marked (1) is a half-mile segment, currently in design, that would utilize two abandoned railroad bridges over Interstate 95 and the MBTA's Fitchburg Line regional rail tracks.

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Gov. Healey Adds $24 Million for Trail Projects from Pandemic Relief Funds

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Truck Driver Kills Allston Man Near Union Square

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