Sam Mintz
Last-Minute Legislation Legalizes (Some) E-Bikes, Axes Low-Income Fares, and Throws More Cash At EVs
Despite a late effort by the Senate to revive legislation requiring the MBTA and regional transit authorities to implement low-income fare discounts, the provision went missing from the final agreement.
August 1, 2022
Mass. Senate Revives Low-Income Fare Legislation
The low-income fare legislation still needs approval from the House of Representatives, whose leadership snubbed similar language when it voted on its own version of the bond bill last month.
July 15, 2022
What Maura Healey’s Climate Plan Reveals About Her Transportation Priorities
The framework contains a number of ideas about how to decarbonize the transportation sector, which generates roughly 40 percent of the state's climate-heating pollutants.
May 13, 2022
Two Factions Square Off Over Housing Issues in Brookline Town Meeting Races
A once-in-a-generation redistricting shakeup means that nearly every member of the Brookline Town Meeting is up for re-election this year, and two factions are squaring off over town zoning laws that prohibit affordable housing.
April 26, 2022
Transit Advocate Chris Dempsey Wants to Be Our Next State Auditor
“I think it’s been too long since we’ve had what you might call an urbanist in a statewide elected position in Massachusetts,” said Dempsey.
April 6, 2022
How Transportation Issues Could Shape the Race to Replace Gov. Charlie Baker
The next governor of Massachusetts will enter office with another looming budget crunch at the MBTA, a historic amount of federal infrastructure money in play, mounting pressure to meet the state’s climate goals, and momentum for changing the way we pay for transit.
March 23, 2022
