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Signs alongside a roadway read "Hammond Pond Parkway – Massachusetts Dept. of Conservation and Recreation" and "Hammond Pond Parkway Improvement Contract No. P23-3501-C3A Newton MA" next to some orange construction cones and freshly-laid asphalt and stacks of granite curbing.

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Eyes On the Street: State Conservation Agency Converts Asphalt to Parkland In Newton

A rendering of a new MBTA station at Newtonville, with pedestrians and people on bikes waiting on a wide sidewalk outside a glass-and-steel structure

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Healey Administration, MBTA Announce Funding for Upgraded Newtonville Regional Rail Station

A person rides a bike on a freshly-painted green bike lane next to some flexible-post bollards on a multi-lane city street lined with tall buildings

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Street Design

Eyes On the Street: Two New Back Bay Bikeways

Two images side-by-side show a green line train at a platform. The left image is a photo of a train next to a broken, narrow asphalt platform in the median of a multi-lane roadway as a pedestrian crosses in a crosswalk towards it. The right image is a rendering of a wider platform with benches, lights, and wayfinding signage and a fence that protects the platform from the adjacent roadway.

B Branch platforms, current and rendering, credit MBTA and Wikimedia Commons

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Here’s the MBTA’s Plan to Make the Green Line B Branch Accessible

Two passengers pass through a row of fare gates at the Downtown Crossing MBTA station.

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‘It’s Good Savings’ – Over 13,000 Riders Are Already Benefiting From Reduced-Fare CharlieCards

A rendering of a wide street from a birds-eye perspective. The center of the street features a red dedicated busway, with two lanes (one in each direction) separated from adjacent traffic with landscaped medians and bus stop waiting area platforms. General motor vehicle traffic is confined to 1-2 lanes on either side of the busway. Along the sidewalks are green dedicated bike lanes, which are generally separated from the adjacent car lanes by gardens surrounded by curbs. A label in the upper left denotes the Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library, and another label denotes the intersecting street as Walk Hill St.

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City of Boston, MBTA Release Refined Designs for Blue Hill Avenue Transit Project

A diagram showing alternative services during a Red Line track work that will close Broadway, Andrew, JFK/UMass, and North Quincy stations for the 6 days between Nov. 5 and Nov. 10. On the weekend of Nov. 9 and 10, the closure will include the Ashmont branch between JFK/UMass and Ashmont. Shuttle service is indicated by a dotted black line connecting the closed stations. The parallel Old Colony commuter rail line is also shown as a purple line with stops at South Station, JFK/UMass, Quincy Center, and Braintree.

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6-Day Service Interruption Near JFK/UMass Aims to Fix the Last Slow Zones On the Red Line

Workers in dayglo vests work on train tracks on a concrete platform under a bright blue sky.

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The Orange Line Is Running At Full Speed For the First Time in 15 Years

A full-size mockup of a Green Line train sits behind an American flag under a white tent. On a ramp to the left, people wait to enter the doors of the mockup.

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Photos: The MBTA’s New Green Line Train, Arriving 2027

A wide five-lane street with a concrete median in the middle that's lined with tall street lamps. Either side of the broad street is lined with triple-decker apartment houses. Most of the picture is empty asphalt, but there are a few large trees scattered along the street's sidewalks in the distance.

Columbia Road near Upham’s Corner

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City of Boston Will Add Modest Traffic-Calming Measures For Columbia Road