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A yellow maintenance train sits on the tracks next to a platform of a train station. A red-and-white sign on the right platform, which is adjacent to a second empty track, shows that this station is Cedar Grove on the MBTA red line.

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MBTA

MBTA Unveils Plan to Eliminate Slow Zones with More Subway Shutdowns

A bike lane, marked by two parallel white lines, with a row of flexible-post bollards in between the two white lines. In the foreground is a speed hump marked with white triangles. A row of cars is parked on the left side of the street. The Lamartine Street traffic signal is visible in the distance.

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Bicycling

Eyes On the Street: Safer Side Streets In Jamaica Plain

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Amtrak

Feds Announce $16.4 Billion for Northeast Corridor Passenger Rail Projects

A historic color photograph of the North Station area in Boston looking north toward Cambridge. The train platforms of North Station are in the center, and above them are an under-construction highway viaduct. To the left of that bridge is a triangular concrete tower, which would later become the Zakim Bridge. To the right of that is an older double-decker highway, which was the previous route of I-93 through downtown Boston. The Charles River runs from left to lower right in the middle of the photo and I-93 meanders into the distant horizon at upper center.

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Highways

An Interview With the Producer of GBH’s ‘The Big Dig’ Podcast

A view of a New York city street with a red "BUS ONLY" lane in the middle of the image, and the yellow rear end of an MTA city bus at right. The rear of the bus includes a blue sticker that says "KEEP BUS LANES CLEAR" and "This bus lane may be subject to enforcement by camera - avoid a ticket"

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Legislation

Legislature’s Latest Attempt for Automated Traffic Enforcement Is Missing the Bus

A two-frame animation shows the current-day view of the Bowker Overpass compared with a rendering illustration of the same view after a new highway project is complete. The current-day view shows a patched-up highway overpass extending over a railroad and multi-lane freeway that runs horizontally across the middle of the image. Beyond the highway, the overpass continues over city streets among the treetops in a park. In the rendering, a new overpass runs along the same course, but two on- and off-ramps connecting the overpass to the surface streets in the distance have been removed, and a second, parallel bridge carries three lanes of traffic and a wide bike and pedestrian path to the left.

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More Details On MassDOT’s Plans to Rebuild Bowker Overpass

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The Climate Emergency

Climate Chief Wants MassDOT To Start Treating the Climate Emergency Like an Actual Emergency

A view of the new Columbus Ave. bus lanes and the new bus platforms at Walnut Avenue.

Walnut Ave. Bus Platforms

MBTA Board Updates: Bus Projects Make a Comeback

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Street Design

An Exit Interview With Stefanie Seskin

A map of Northampton and Easthampton showing existing segments of the Manhan Rail Trail, which connects the two towns in a C shape. The Connecticut River meanders on the right side of the map. An east-west spur of the Manhan Rail Trail in Easthampton, which forms the bottom of the "C" shape, would be extended north towards downtown Northampton in an upcoming project. A dotted straight line indicates the location of that project. The dotted line stops just south of downtown Northampton and runs alongside the Silvio O. Conte Wildlife Refuge next to the river.

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Trails

MassDOT Plans New Shared-Use Path Connection Between Northampton, Easthampton