New State Rule Would Force Suburbs to Legalize Thousands of New Apartments Near T Stops
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.
January 13, 2022
2021 Was A Record-Breaking Year For Deaths on Massachusetts Roadways
At least 408 people died in crashes in Massachusetts during 2021, making it the deadliest year on Massachusetts roadways in over a decade.
January 10, 2022
Outgoing DA Rollins Launches Criminal Investigation Into MBTA Safety
"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.
January 7, 2022
MassDOT Shares Early Concepts for Taming Wellington Circle
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.
January 6, 2022
Rural Communities Are Struggling to Pay for Their Car-Dependent Infrastructure
A new report from the Massachusetts Office of the State Auditor calls for more spending on rural roads, but fails to address related and more urgent needs for more energy- and cost-efficient transportation in rural areas.
January 5, 2022
Baker Admin. Moves to Adopt California’s Electric Truck Mandates
California’s new regulation would require zero-emission engines in an increasing proportion of truck sales, ranging from delivery vans to big rigs.
January 4, 2022
The StreetsblogMASS 2021 Year In Review
From free buses to safer streets, we covered a lot of big transportation news in 2021.
December 29, 2021
Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2021
StreetsblogMASS launched in the summer of 2019, and in the two-and-a-half years since then, our audience has grown almost four-fold.
December 29, 2021
Meet the New Chief: StreetsblogMASS Interviews Jascha Franklin-Hodge
"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."
December 22, 2021
Guest Column: Another Crash Highlights State Inaction on Somerville’s ‘Corridor of Death’
Mystic Avenue is a state road under MassDOT’s jurisdiction and, together with MassDOT-controlled McGrath Highway, comprises Somerville’s “Corridor of Death.” It has been the site of three pedestrian deaths in less than two years.
December 21, 2021
