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A person rides their bike along a straight, flat, paved trail lined with trees to the left and a power line at right. The rider is approaching a small traffic circle junction with a street sign at left that reads "Speen St". In the middle of the junction is a stone column with the words "Natick Cochituate Rail Trail"

Trails

Natick’s Rail Trail Now Connects to Its Downtown MBTA Station

<p>Brian Kane is Executive Director of the <a href="https://mbtaadvisoryboard.org/">MBTA Advisory Board</a>, a quasi-state body providing budget oversight of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority on behalf of 178 cities and towns in the Commonwealth. He is also the volunteer Chair of the Brookline, Massachusetts Transportation Board. Established in 1974, by statute this board manages parking, traffic, and multi-modal transportation in New England’s largest town by population. Previously, Kane worked in both operations and budget management at the MBTA.</p>


A middle-aged man in a suit stands in the operator cab of a light rail train.

Brian Kane

A crowded train hall filled with people, many of whom are carrying luggage. A large electronic sign hanging from the high ceiling displays upcoming train departures.

Housing

Guest Column: South Station Is Not An Adequate Emergency Shelter

Transit

Trump’s Funding Freeze Derails Transit, Undermining Growth and Economic Opportunity For All Americans: Report

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Christian MilNeil

A man in a grey shirt bikes down a bike lane between a sidewalk and a row of parked cars on a street lined with 4-5 story buildings and trees.

Street Design

City of Cambridge Reports Better Bike Lanes Led to Surge In Bike Traffic

Highways

‘Big Dig’ Producer Takes His Show On the Road With ‘Highway Teardown Tour’

A rendering of a wide street from a birds-eye perspective. The center of the street features a red dedicated busway, with two lanes (one in each direction) separated from adjacent traffic with landscaped medians and bus stop waiting area platforms. General motor vehicle traffic is confined to 1-2 lanes on either side of the busway. Along the sidewalks are green dedicated bike lanes, which are generally separated from the adjacent car lanes by gardens surrounded by curbs. A label in the upper left denotes the Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library, and another label denotes the intersecting street as Walk Hill St.

MBTA

Congress Allocates $80 Million to Build Blue Hill Ave. Busway

A smiling black woman with long braided hair wearing a black-and-yellow plaid patterned sweater

Meghan Volcy

Bicycling

Six Mass. Schools Step Up Their Bike Parking Game with New Safe Routes to School Grant

A brown-skinned man in a thick red winter parka and black hat tosses a huge chunk of snow aside as other volunteers behind him dig through a large snow bank.

Accessibility

Accessibility Advocates Press Boston City Council for Better Snow Removal

An MBTA commuter rail train alongside a asphalt-paved, low-level train station platform. In the middle distance is a small shelter over some benches on the platform with a sign reading "BOSTON".

Uncategorized

Washington Pledges $8.7 Million to Support World Cup Transit Service In Mass.

A triptych of "micromobility" vehicles. On the left a woman in a helmet straddles an e-scooter without pedals; in the center, a man in a jacket and a helmet rides a two-wheeled stand-up motorized scooter down a bike lane; on the right, a man rides a nonmotorized red pedal bike.

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