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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

An empty parking lot under a clear blue sky with about a dozen red-and-white Tesla charging stations. Beyond the parking lot are several trees blossiming with spring blooms.

Elections and Politics

Electric Backslide: Massachusetts On Track to Miss Its EV Goals By A Wide Margin

A group of people wearing fluorescent yellow safety vests chats in a circle next to a parked MBTA bus.

MBTA

MBTA Is Finally Showing Progress on Bus Operator Hiring

A driver with a white beard wearing a green vest and a black baseball cap stands in the door of a red city bus with the MeVa logo on its side. The destination sign on the front of the bus says "61- Newburyport" and a second bus waits behind in the background at left.

Mass. Senate Proposes Fare-Free Buses for Regional Transit Authorities Statewide (But Not the T)

Aaron Lu

A freshly-paved two-lane road is lined with orange construction barrels stretching into the distance. The road is surrounded by trees just beginning to grow their leaves. A wide dirt track runs along the right edge of the pavement.

Highways

Eyes On the Street: Less Pavement, More Park On Hammond Pond Parkway

A city street lined with historic multi-story brick rowhouse buildings with the glass Hancock Tower skyscraper rising above them in the background. In the foreground is an intersection with a traffic light turning yellow and a street sign that says "Appleton Street". A woman in a puffy winter coat is crossing the street. On the right is a newly-painted protected bike lane running between the sidewalk and a row of parked cars.

Street Design

Transit and Bike Riders Will Get More Space On Back Bay Streets This Year

A green line train stops in the middle of Huntington Ave. while a passenger disembarks in the middle of the roadway while other riders wait under a bus shelter on the sidewalk at left.

Huntington Ave. Redesign Will Eliminate Last Mixed-Traffic Segment of the Green Line By 2027

A bikesharing station kiosk with four parked bikes in a sheltered passageway of a concrete building. The kiosk has a sign that says "Holyoke Community College" and an ad that says "ride an electric-assist bike"

Bicycling

ValleyBike Bikeshare Will Return This Month After Year-Long Hiatus

New separated bike lanes on Massachusetts Avenue in front of Cambridge City Hall.

After Marathon Meeting, Cambridge City Council Narrowly Votes to Delay Street Safety Projects

MassDOT

An Updated Guide To Boston’s Allston/I-90 Megaproject

A cellphone snapshot of a crash scene where a Boston Police cruiser is on a sidewalk, with the wreckage of a traffic light underneath it. In front of the cruiser, near the left edge of the photo, a white man in a police uniform talks on a cellphone. Several pedestrians are walking around the crash site by walking in the street in the foreground. Behind the crashed car is a iron fence surrounding a graveyard where numerous people in coats are walking.