Christian MilNeil
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Brown University Students Launch ‘Waze for Safe Bike Routes’
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A software startup run by two seniors at Brown University aims to help more bike riders find better bike routes with a new navigation app that lets users rate streets along their way. Last week, Brown University seniors Maggie Bachenberg and Trisha Ballakur launched their app, Pointz, on the Apple and Google Play app stores. […]
City of Springfield Proposes Road Diet, Traffic Calming for Deadly Downtown Block
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State Street in Springfield ranks as one of the Commonwealth's deadliest streets, and it runs through the middle of the city's historically Black neighborhoods. A city proposal would introduce measures to calm traffic, but it's limited to just one block on the edge of the city's downtown.
DCR Announces Scaled-Back Memorial Drive Road Diet for 2024
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The latest proposal, as described in the ENF, would reconstruct a 0.8-mile length of Memorial Drive and its multi-use pathways between the Eliot Bridge and the Anderson Bridge (JFK Street).
New State Rule Would Force Suburbs to Legalize Thousands of New Apartments Near T Stops
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The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), a public regional planning agency based in Boston, estimates that the proposed guidelines would collectively create a zoning capacity for 344,000 multifamily housing units across the region.
2021 Was A Record-Breaking Year For Deaths on Massachusetts Roadways
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At least 408 people died in crashes in Massachusetts during 2021, making it the deadliest year on Massachusetts roadways in over a decade.
Outgoing DA Rollins Launches Criminal Investigation Into MBTA Safety
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"When their acts and omissions put the safety of community members and their own employees at risk, sometimes the only means of driving change is through the courts, and public demands for action," said DA Rollins in a statement announcing the criminal probe.
MassDOT Shares Early Concepts for Taming Wellington Circle
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Local stakeholders in an advisory working group expressed a desire to see less asphalt and fewer lanes through the intersections in MassDOT's proposed designs.
Baker Admin. Moves to Adopt California’s Electric Truck Mandates
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California’s new regulation would require zero-emission engines in an increasing proportion of truck sales, ranging from delivery vans to big rigs.
The StreetsblogMASS 2021 Year In Review
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From free buses to safer streets, we covered a lot of big transportation news in 2021.
Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2021
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StreetsblogMASS launched in the summer of 2019, and in the two-and-a-half years since then, our audience has grown almost four-fold. A big part of that growth in readership comes from our regular readers, who share our stories on social media and discuss them offline with your friends, family members, and work colleagues. But thanks to […]
Meet the New Chief: StreetsblogMASS Interviews Jascha Franklin-Hodge
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"There’s a lot of traffic engineering that’s very data-driven, but it’s often data-driven in ways that are focused on vehicular movements and speeds and capacity... And sometimes that comes at the expense of asking, ‘What’s it like for a person who’s walking to the bus, and waiting on the corner for that bus?’ We don’t have metrics for that."
Boston’s ‘What the Tech’ Series Offers A Field Guide to the Gadgets on Our Streets
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"Whether they’re feeling positively or negatively about it, the main point is to get more people talking about the use of technology in the public realm."