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Christian MilNeil

A map of Somerville highlighting its "priority bike network" from the city's bike plan. The map highlights busier streets that would receive separated bike lanes – like Broadway and Somerville Ave. – in green, and quieter neighborhood streets that would receive traffic calming treatments to serve as shared bike routes in blue.

SomervilleBikePlanPriorityNetworkMap

Vision Zero

New Somerville Safe Streets Ordinance Mandates 30-Mile Protected Bike Lane Network By 2030

Workers in fluorescent yellow vests and helmets place tracks inside a subway station below a green "Park Street" sign. The platform of the station is covered in railroad ties and plates and other construction materials. In the distance a yellow lull forklift is on the tracks at the edge of the station.

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Elections and Politics

Declining Infrastructure Funding From Healey Admin. Puts T’s ‘State of Good Repair’ Further Out of Reach

A purple-and-silver MBTA commuter rail diesel train crosses the North Station drawbridge over the Charles River with the high-rises of downtown Boston in the background.

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Trails

Will A New Rail Bridge Across the Charles Include a Long-Promised Walkway to North Station?

A rendering of a city street with a black metal fence surrounding the sidewalk on the far side of the street. In the background is a brick multi-story building

Salem fence proposal

Walking

Downtown Salem Gets Lots of Foot Traffic; Its Cops Want to Fence It In

Two red buses facing the camera are stopped at a boarding platform on a rainy day, while a small crowd of passengers waits under a glass-and-steel canopy to the left of the buses.

PVTA Springfield Union Station

Regional Transit Authorities

Increased State Funding Yields New Bus Routes Across the Commonwealth

A logo with the words "Beyond Mobility" and, in smaller type below, "Massachusetts 2050 Transportation Plan". To the left of the text is a diagram of four small circles connected in a network, in the shape of a backwards K.

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The Climate Emergency

Critics Say MassDOT’s New ‘Beyond Mobility’ Plan Is Missing Accountability

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

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MBTA

MBTA Is Finally Showing Progress on Bus Operator Hiring

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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.

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Highways

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