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Baker Vetoes Key Policies In Transportation Bond Bill
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Baker used his line-item veto power to delete many of the bill's policy proposals, including language that would have established a low-income transit fare program, guidelines and financing for the massive Allston Multimodal Project, and a proposal to raise more money for transportation projects with increased fees on Uber and Lyft rides.
Baker’s Climate Plans Presume A Future With Lots of Driving
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Governor Baker's climate plan focuses most of its attention on subsidizing electric car purchases, and generally dismisses the potential of reducing pollution with transit-oriented development or expanded transit services.
In Case You Missed It: Watch Our ‘Right of Way’ Book Discussion With Angie Schmitt
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On Wednesday evening, about 50 Streetsblog readers got together virtually for a discussion of Angie Schmitt's new book, "Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America."
Higher Uber/Lyft Fees Could Boost Funding for Street Safety and Transit
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Historically, municipalities have used their share of fees on Uber and Lyft to finance local transportation improvements, including quick-build safety projects and small transit services. Under new legislation awaiting Governor Baker's signature, that funding could increase significantly.
Data Confirm That More Fatal Crashes Happen in Commonwealth’s Black Neighborhoods
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Of the 210 fatal car crashes in Massachusetts where a driver killed a bike rider or pedestrian between 2018 and 2020, a quarter of those killings occurred in neighborhoods where the Black population makes up a higher-than-average proportion of the neighborhood population, according to a Streetsblog analysis of MassDOT fatal crash records. According to U.S. […]
Bond Bill Boosts Proposal to Reconfigure Boston’s Charles Circle
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"It would be the largest expansion of Esplanade parkland in decades," says Rep. Jay Livingstone, the state representative for the neighborhood.
Driver Hits Pedestrian, Flees in Gruesome Charlestown Killing
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At the purported crash site, where Chelsea Street meets Terminal Street, there is only one narrow sidewalk on the south side of Chelsea Street, and no crosswalks.
Final Bond Bill Sets 20-Cent ‘Transit Access Fee’ For Uber/Lyft Rides
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In 2018, there were about 50 million Uber and Lyft rides that originated in Boston and Cambridge alone, which could have contributed around $10 million in new revenue for the T had this policy been in place then.
2020 In Review: The Year’s Top 10 Stories
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Thanks for reading StreetsblogMASS this year – we'll be back in 2021.
Photos: Three New Trails To Look Forward To in 2021
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Three new trail projects in Boston's suburbs are poised to open for traffic in early 2021: the Cochituate Rail Trail in Natick, the Cambridge-Watertown Greenway, and the extension of the Northern Strand Trail in Revere, Saugus, and Lynn.
Meet Peter Cheung, MassBike’s ‘Advocate of the Year’
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If you ride a bike in the Boston area, odds are pretty good you’ve run into Peter Cheung: he’s often leading the pack for large group rides like the Ride for Black Lives and the Boston Bike Party, and he’s also the person behind many of the region’s ghost bike memorials to the victims of […]
Brookline Considers Bus Lanes For Its Biggest Transit Bottleneck
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The proposal would benefit the town's busiest bus corridor, a heavily-congested bottleneck where three busy bus routes converge near the Boston border.