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<p>Christian has edited StreetsblogMASS since its founding in spring 2019. Before that, he was a data reporter for the Portland Press Herald in Maine.</p>
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Christian MilNeil

Bluebike station locations in 2010, 2016, and 2021. When the system launched a decade ago, it primarily served higher-income, whiter neighborhoods in central Boston. However, thanks to new stations, non-white and lower-income residents of these cities and towns now enjoy more equitable levels of access to the bikesharing network.

Bicycling

Inventories Take Stock of Growing Access to Bluebikes, Safer Bike Routes

New "slow zones" on the Southwest Corridor are making Orange Line riders' trips 5 to 6 minutes longer than they were this spring. Chart courtesy of TransitMatters, with MBTA data.

Equity

The Orange Line Keeps Getting Slower, At Riders’ Expense

A route 28 bus advertising the fare-free pilot passes through Grove Hall on Blue Hill Avenue on October 5, 2021.

MBTA

More Fare-Free Buses Coming to Lawrence, Haverhill, and Boston

New Green Line tracks and fresh pavement on the future Community Path, pictured from Cross Street in Somerville, looking northwest towards the McGrath Highway, on July 30, 2021.

MassDOT

Mass. Officials Still Don’t Know How Much Money We’ll Get From Infrastructure Law

Portrait of Whitney Zhang of Boston on the Cambridge side of the Mass. Ave. Bridge on Nov. 23, 2021

Mass. Ave. Bridge Users Praise Improved Bike Lanes: ‘I Hope We See More of This’

Vision Zero

Vigil for Crash Victims Amplifies Need for Safer Streets in Springfield

Rendering of the proposed Northern Strand on-street bikeway on South Common Street, approaching Market Street, in downtown Lynn.

MassDOT Makes Plans to Extend Northern Strand Through Downtown Lynn

A wide multi-lane street with cars waiting at a red traffic light dusk.

City of Boston, MBTA Win Funds to Transform Blue Hill Avenue

Board Votes for One More Year of Zero-Fare Buses in Worcester

Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu in front of the entrance to the Forest Hills T station