Data Confirm That More Fatal Crashes Happen in Commonwealth’s Black Neighborhoods
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.
January 12, 2021
Senate Considering $10B for Highway Teardowns
The Restoring Neighborhoods and Strengthening Communities Program — known among advocates as the “Highways to Boulevards” initiative — would be available for projects located in regions with a high concentration of low income residents or residents of color.
January 11, 2021
Bond Bill Boosts Proposal to Reconfigure Boston’s Charles Circle
"It would be the largest expansion of Esplanade parkland in decades," says Rep. Jay Livingstone, the state representative for the neighborhood.
January 7, 2021
Driver Hits Pedestrian, Flees in Gruesome Charlestown Killing
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.
January 6, 2021
Final Bond Bill Sets 20-Cent ‘Transit Access Fee’ For Uber/Lyft Rides
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.
January 6, 2021
Highway Boondoggles 2020: Boston’s Big Choice
Will the commonwealth will invest in a bold, transformative plan that will help it meet its transportation and climate goals, or will it rebuild the auto-intensive infrastructure of generations ago?
January 4, 2021
2020 In Review: The Year’s Top 10 Stories
Thanks for reading StreetsblogMASS this year – we'll be back in 2021.
December 30, 2020
Photos: Three New Trails To Look Forward To in 2021
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.
December 28, 2020
Meet Peter Cheung, MassBike’s ‘Advocate of the Year’
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 traffic violence.
December 27, 2020
Brookline Considers Bus Lanes For Its Biggest Transit Bottleneck
The proposal would benefit the town's busiest bus corridor, a heavily-congested bottleneck where three busy bus routes converge near the Boston border.
December 23, 2020
