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Northampton Resets Its Planning Process for Main Street Redesign
Northampton plans to reconstruct its Main Street in 2025, and the project presents an opportunity to redesign the wide Main Street corridor from the intersections of Elm and West Streets, at the edge of the Smith College campus, to Market and Hawley Streets, near the railroad viaduct.
March 1, 2021
Brookline Considers Bus Lanes For Its Biggest Transit Bottleneck
The proposal would benefit the town's busiest bus corridor, a heavily-congested bottleneck where three busy bus routes converge near the Boston border.
December 23, 2020
It’s Decision Day for MBTA Service Cuts: Here’s What to Watch
To help fill a $600 million budget gap, the agency has proposed eliminating ferry service, ending dozens of lower-ridership bus routes, eliminating commuter rail service on nights and weekends, and closing several rail stations, including a portion of the Green Line in Mission Hill.
December 14, 2020
Rep. Pressley Calls on Feds to Fund Highways, Transit Equally
Since 1982, federal transportation funding has been governed by the "80-20 split," which restricts the federal Department of Transportation from spending more than 20 percent of its Highway Trust Fund money on transit projects, leaving the majority of federal funding for highway projects.
December 11, 2020
Newton Scrubs A Bike Lane From Washington Street, But Others Are In the Works
In the face of vocal opposition, City of Newton officials are removing a short-lived bike lane that was recently painted on Washington Street between West Newton and Newtonville, but the city's safe streets advocates are hoping that a better, more protected version could be installed next year, when the city is expected to pilot a road diet on the same street.
October 18, 2020
Somerville Plans New Bus, Bike Lanes on Washington Street
The new roadway layout would benefit bike and bus riders traveling between Harvard and Union Squares.
October 7, 2020
DCR to Reboot Its Planning Process for Memorial Drive
The state's "Memorial Drive Phase 3" project is intended to complement recent improvements to Memorial Drive between the Longfellow Bridge to the DeWolfe Boathouse just east of the B.U. Bridge.
August 14, 2020
TransitMatters Releases ‘Data Dashboard’ to Visualize T Delays
TransitMatters hopes the data visualizations will help advocates "more effectively keep tabs on the T operational performance and capital delivery projects."
August 11, 2020
Rep. Pressley, Sen. Markey Introduce Legislation to Fund Fare-Free Transit
The proposed legislation would authorize $5 billion a year to fund "Freedom to Move Grants" – a new competitive grant program to support free transit services.
June 26, 2020
