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Christian MilNeil

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MassDOT Secretary Stephanie Pollack, wearing a blazer over a red top, stands next to Steve Poftak (center) wearing a suit and pink-and-blue plaid tie, and Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker, wearing a buttoned suit and green tie. All three are holding scissors and segments of a cut orange ribbon. They stand in front of a new Orange Line train car bearing the words "OAK GROVE" on the destination sign above the door.

The T’s New Train Factory Has Gone Off the Rails

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 3, 2023 | No Comments
On Thursday, Governor Maura Healey, Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, and their administration's newly-assembled transportation cabinet rode a Red Line train, visited the T's Operations Control Center, and outlined their early plans to tackle the many challenges facing the MBTA. "Our message to all those who ride the T, the rails, the buses, around the state, […]
State Street and the Springfield Central Library in downtown Springfield.

City of Springfield Wins $15 Million to Improve Street Safety Citywide

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 1, 2023 | No Comments
"Safe Streets and Roads for All unlocks federal dollars to fund some of the most effective safety interventions on streets – small-scale investments deployed at scale – that were previously inaccessible to communities without strong local funding sources."
An architect's rendering of a new building with a ground-floor space signed "Boston Public Library" and 11 floors of apartments above. The upper floors are clad in green bricks and a small elevated plaza with ramps and small trees leads to the building's main entrance.

In 2022, Boston Planners Once Again Approved More Parking Spaces Than Homes

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 1, 2023 | No Comments
In spite of the city's pressing housing shortage and ambitious climate goals, which call for fewer cars on Boston's streets, the BPDA's project approvals for 2022 include more parking and less housing compared to 2021.
Easy commute, no place to live: the MTBA commuter rail station at West Hingham on the Greenbush Line.

Suburbs Face Their First Deadline for New Transit-Oriented Zoning Law

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 30, 2023 | No Comments
Where many suburbs currently only allow single-family homes with large lawns, the new rules will require new zoning districts "of reasonable size," and generally within a half-mile of transit stops, where builders would be allowed to construct at least 15 homes per acre.
A person riding a bike along a sunny one-way street next to some two-story buildings with stores on the ground floor.

In Chicopee, Drivers Have Killed 8 People Since September

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 25, 2023 | No Comments
Even in the context of record-setting bloodshed on Massachusetts roadways last year, Chicopee has seen an unusually high rate of violence from drivers.
Riders in Chelsea and an MBTA outreach worker wait to board the bus at Bellingham Street in downtown Chelsea. T staff shared information about the Bus Network Redesign project with members onboard.

Advocates Set An Agenda For Salvaging the T’s Troubled Buses

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 25, 2023 | No Comments
One of the report’s key arguments – and the reason for its title – is that the region’s current bus fleet is actually smaller than it was in the early 1970s, even though the region has added 1.7 million new residents since then.
A bus driver wearing a face mask and a jacket with an MBTA "T" logo on his arm sits behind the wheel of a bus.

Gov. Healey’s Job #1 for the T: Better Union Contracts

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 23, 2023 | No Comments
"The combination of overworked staff and aging assets has resulted in the organization being overwhelmed," wrote agents for the Federal Transit Administration in a scathing report this August.
An MBTA recruiting ad on a trash can in downtown Boston.

The MBTA’s Bus Driver Shortage Is Getting Even Worse

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 19, 2023 | No Comments
After a year of intensified recruiting efforts, nearly one in four bus operator positions at the MTBA remains unfilled, and the shortage appears to be getting worse.
A view from the Boston Public Library steps overlooking the festivities from day one of Copley Connect, a pilot project that will close one block of Dartmouth Street to motor vehicle traffic in order to expand the public space of Copley Square.

City Declares Copley Open Street Pilot a ‘Success’ and Plans Permanent Improvements

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 19, 2023 | No Comments
72 percent of survey respondents expressed a "very positive" opinion about making the car-free plaza permanent.
An aerial view of a major highway interchange. In the foreground is the intersection of two multi-lane suburban roads. Behind it is a large parking lot, with a gas station and a handful of other highway-oriented businesses surrounded by asphalt. In the middle distance, a four-lane expressway runs from the right to upper left. In the upper left, the highway crosses a canal over an arched bridge. Another highway runs parallel to the canal into the distance in the photograph's upper right corner.

Washington Snubs MassDOT’s Proposed Cape Cod Highway Expansion

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 5, 2023 | No Comments
In addition to building new, 6-lane bridges over the Cape Cod Canal, MassDOT is also proposing to add more lanes to connecting highways like Route 6 and Sandwich Road, build a new mile-long bypass road, widen intersections, and build new highway-style interchanges on both sides of the canal.
A freshly-painted green bike lane runs alongside a row of white flexible-post bollards and the sidewalk, where a white bicycle leaning against a traffic light pole memorializes George Clemmer, a bicyclist who was killed at this intersection in July 2022.

2022 Was Another Record-Breaking Year For Bloodshed on Massachusetts Roadways

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 3, 2023 | No Comments
In addition to hundreds of crashes that ended peoples' lives, MassDOT's crash database also records 2,361 crashes that caused serious injuries, plus 16,307 crashes that caused less serious injuries to their victims, during 2022.
A ghost bike memorial to Darryl Willis, who was killed by a truck driver in Harvard Square on August 18.

With Last-Minute Legislating, Roadway Safety Bill Finally Becomes Law

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 28, 2022 | No Comments
“An Act to Reduce Traffic Fatalities” would establish a suite of new regulations intended to improve safety on Massachusetts roadways.
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