The WRTA’s Fare-Free Bus Experiment Was Popular, But Won’t Last Without Funding
The WRTA's higher levels of transit ridership, relative to other peer cities, suggest that its fare-free policies may be especially helpful to frontline workers whose travel decisions are more sensitive to fare costs.
May 7, 2021
A Walk Audit of Worcester
Highway construction devastated West Boylston Street, which remains extremely hostile to foot traffic to this day. What would it take to make it a healthy neighborhood main street again?
May 5, 2021
Eyes On the Street: I Survived Worcester’s New Kelley Square
MassDOT's project upgraded several connecting streets in the Canal District with improved sidewalks and dedicated bike infrastructure.
May 4, 2021
New Plan Plots a Course for Cross-State Trail Through Central Massachusetts
About one third of the proposed Mass. Central Rail Trail has already been built, but connecting missing links through the hills of Worcester County will be a more challenging project.
May 3, 2021
It’s Worcester Week on StreetsblogMASS
In small, significant steps, the city is beginning to remake its streets and transit systems to embrace a more walkable, transit-oriented future.
May 3, 2021
Downtown Boston’s Tontine Plaza to Be Made Permanent
Millennium Partners hopes to start construction on the new plaza in June.
April 29, 2021
Help Pick A Route for the Silver Line Extension Through Everett
Planners seek feedback on potential alignments that would extend the Silver Line busway from its current terminus in Chelsea into Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, and downtown Boston.
April 27, 2021
Advocates Pan Proposed Expansion of Policing in Baker ‘Safety’ Bill
Advocates remain in the dark about what's being proposed, and are concerned about the administration's focus on policing instead of preventing crashes.
April 26, 2021
Guest Column: Electric Cars Won’t Save Us
To meet its climate goals, Massachusetts will need to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles from the state’s roadways within the next 25 years. But the Commonwealth’s new decarbonization roadmap aims to accomplish this not with improvements to transit and safer streets, but with widespread subsidies for new electric vehicles.
April 23, 2021
MassGeneral Expansion Plans Include Space for New Blue Line Station
The MBTA is also budgeting $15 million for "planning funds to extend the Blue Line to Charles/MGH."
April 22, 2021
