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A sketch of proposed new housing alongside a new Arborway bus garage in Jamaica Plain, seen from an aerial perspective from over the Arnold Arboretum, looking toward Franklin Park. On the left edge of the sketch are a row of salmon-colored mid-rise buildings, indicating potential new housing along Washington Street. In the center is a large, single-story warehouse-style building in blue, which indicates the rough shape of a proposed new MBTA bus garage. The Arborway highway and greenway are in the foreground, running from the lower-left corner to the upper-right edge.

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Housing

Revised Arborway Bus Plan Would Make Room For Hundreds of New Transit-Oriented Homes

A man rides a Bluebike towards the camera in a separated bike lane that runs between the sidewalk (left) and a row of parked cars (center). A row of flexible-post bollards in the foreground divides the bike lane from moving traffic. The street is lined with multi-story buildings.

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Protected bike lanes

Eyes On the Street: Back Bay’s New Bikeways

A wide four-lane city street under a blue sky. On the right edge of the photo is a historic five-story brick apartment building with bay windows. On the left edge is a BP gas station. The wide roadway through the center of the photo only has a handful of cars on it, a few of which are parked at the curbside.

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Street Design

Worcester to Tame One of Its Most Dangerous Streets With Narrower Roadway, Protected Bike Lanes

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.

Mattapan Branch track work

Elections and Politics

Report: The T Needs $24.5 Billion to Attain ‘State of Good Repair’

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Policing

‘Cameras Don’t Have Guns’ – Boston’s Black Community Weighs In On Camera-Based Traffic Enforcement

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

Mass. Ave. at Cambridge City Hall

The Polls Are In: Hating Bike Lanes Is Not A Winning Electoral Strategy

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