‘Double’ Meanings: What Gov. Healey’s 2025 Budget Proposal Means For the MBTA
During her State of the Commonwealth speech last week, Healey pledged to "double our support for MBTA operations" in next year's budget.
January 24, 2024
Justice for All, and Roses Too: A Conversation with Reggie Ramos, the New Leader of Transportation For Massachusetts
In September, Transportation for Massachusetts (T4MA), a statewide coalition that advocates for better, more equitable transportation systems across the Commonwealth, welcomed a new Executive Director, Reggie Ramos.
January 17, 2024
Highway Engineers Sought Exemptions From Safe Street Design Requirements In Springfield’s $19 Million Rebuild of ‘The X’
In Springfield, a city that ranks among the Commonwealth's most dangerous places for traffic violence, the intersection known as "The X" has a special distinction for the volumes of blood that drivers have spilled on its asphalt.
January 15, 2024
Boston’s Next Bus Rapid Transit Line Would Link Downtown, Sullivan Square Before the End of This Decade
An updated new design for Rutherford Avenue would set aside space for a dedicated center-running busway through Boston's Charlestown neighborhood and eliminate highway-style underpasses through Sullivan Square.
January 10, 2024
New Year, No Fares: Beacon Hill Bankrolls Dozens of Free Bus Routes Statewide
The state budget that lawmakers passed last summer is bankrolling a major expansion in popular fare-free bus routes across the entire Commonwealth this winter.
January 5, 2024
Allston Project’s Next Challenge: Keeping the Turnpike’s Traffic Jams Out of A New ‘Transit-Oriented’ Neighborhood
It's been two years since planners nailed down a consensus for a new alignment for the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston.
January 3, 2024
City of Northampton Seeks Bids to Reboot ValleyBike By April
The City of Northampton has issued a Request for Proposals for companies that can re-start the Connecticut River Valley's mothballed ValleyBike bikesharing system, with a targeted opening date of April 10th.
January 2, 2024
New Trails We Can Look Forward to In 2024
In the past year, MassDOT and municipalities across the Commonwealth cut ribbons on over a dozen multi-use pathway projects, opening up roughly 20 miles' worth of new bike and pedestrian infrastructure.
December 26, 2023
Electric Bluebikes Have Arrived in Boston
City officials say that they plan to have about 750 electric bikes mixed into the system by the end of January, to augment the existing fleet of over 4,000 non-electric bikes.
December 20, 2023
New Transit-Oriented Housing Law Has Yet to Produce Much New Housing In Boston’s Suburbs
Earlier this week, the Healey-Driscoll administration touted the Town of Lexington and the City of Salem as the first two municipalities to be certified under the new MBTA Communities Law, which will compel suburbs in the MBTA service area to legalize more multi-family housing near transit stations.
December 14, 2023
