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Riders in Chelsea and an MBTA outreach worker wait to board the bus at Bellingham Street in downtown Chelsea. T staff shared information about the Bus Network Redesign project with members onboard.

Riders in Chelsea and an MBTA staff member waiting to board the bus. T staff shared information about the Bus Network Redesign project with members onboard.

Advocacy Opportunities

Advocates Set An Agenda For Salvaging the T’s Troubled Buses

A bus driver wearing a face mask and a jacket with an MBTA "T" logo on his arm sits behind the wheel of a bus.

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MBTA

Gov. Healey’s Job #1 for the T: Better Union Contracts

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The MBTA’s Bus Driver Shortage Is Getting Even Worse

A view from the Boston Public Library steps overlooking the festivities from day one of Copley Connect, a pilot project that will close one block of Dartmouth Street to motor vehicle traffic in order to expand the public space of Copley Square.

Copley Connect

Street Design

City Declares Copley Open Street Pilot a ‘Success’ and Plans Permanent Improvements

An aerial view of a major highway interchange. In the foreground is the intersection of two multi-lane suburban roads. Behind it is a large parking lot, with a gas station and a handful of other highway-oriented businesses surrounded by asphalt. In the middle distance, a four-lane expressway runs from the right to upper left. In the upper left, the highway crosses a canal over an arched bridge. Another highway runs parallel to the canal into the distance in the photograph's upper right corner.

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Highways

Washington Snubs MassDOT’s Proposed Cape Cod Highway Expansion

A freshly-painted green bike lane runs alongside a row of white flexible-post bollards and the sidewalk, where a white bicycle leaning against a traffic light pole memorializes George Clemmer, a bicyclist who was killed at this intersection in July 2022.

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Crashes

2022 Was Another Record-Breaking Year For Bloodshed on Massachusetts Roadways

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Legislation

With Last-Minute Legislating, Roadway Safety Bill Finally Becomes Law

A large crowd of people celebrate the Green Line extension's opening day outside a snowy Ball Square station while some kids play on a snowy hillside next to the station entrance.

Ball Square station, Green Line Extension, December 12, 2022

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Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2022

New Road Safety Law Stalled (Again) in the State House

A pedestrian crosses Tremont Street in a new crosswalk. In the foreground is a newly-installed median island, about the size of a parked car, that is paved in bricks and ringed by a granite curb. To its left are two lanes for two-way car traffic; to its right is an asphalt-paved bike lane, and a second curb at the right edge of the photo delineates the street's sidewalk. A smaller granite curb island is located at the far side of the crosswalk, and two other pairs of islands in a similar configuration protect the crosswalk on the opposite side of the intersection. Historic brick rowhomes line both sides of the street. In the distance is a church steeple.

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Bicycling

Eyes On the Street: Portions of New Tremont St. Protected Bike Lane Are Ready to Ride