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Make A Plan to Vote In Today’s Primary Elections
Across Massachusetts, voters will pick their party's candidates for various state offices, including candidates for a new legislature (or, in many districts, the uncontested candidates from last year's legislature) that will arrive in Beacon Hill this winter, in primary elections today.
September 3, 2024
Bill Would Finally Ding Automakers’ Safety Ratings on Huge Cars That Kill Pedestrians
This bill would finally require regulators to do what advocates say they should have done years ago: stop giving five-star safety ratings to huge trucks and SUVs that are virtually guaranteed to kill a pedestrian on impact.
August 28, 2024
Guest Column: An Advocate’s Guide to MPOs, Some of Our Most Critical Transportation Agencies
This year, Metropolitan Planning Organizations — or MPOs — have taken center stage in transportation advocacy across America. Michiganders got their MPO to cancel a highway expansion plan, St. Louis and Denver MPOs have approved light rail expansions, and the San Francisco Bay Area’s MPO pushed for significantly more funding and oversight to the region’s 27 transit agencies.
June 25, 2024
Thousands of Drivers Caught On Camera Passing Stopped School Buses In Peabody
But under current state law, it's still illegal for cities and towns to issue fines to the drivers caught putting kids' lives at risk.
May 30, 2024
Sen. Warren’s ‘Build Green’ Bill Seeks a Clean Shift in Transportation Spending
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. It is republished with permission. Sign up for their newsletter here.
May 15, 2024
Huntington Ave. Redesign Will Eliminate Last Mixed-Traffic Segment of the Green Line By 2027
On Tuesday evening, officials from the City of Boston and the MBTA officially kicked off a planning effort that will ultimately redesign Huntington and South Huntington Avenues in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood.
May 2, 2024
Bay State Bike Month is Off to the Races with Kick-off at Aeronaut Brewing
May is Bay State Bike Month, and Boston-area bike advocates gathered at Aeronaut Brewing in Somerville for a Bike Month Kick-off Event last Sunday afternoon.
May 1, 2024
Boston Kicks Off Planning to Redesign Columbia Road, A Lost Link In Its Emerald Necklace
Mayor Wu's administration is finally kicking off a formal planning process to redesign Columbia Road, a multi-lane roadway that slices through the heart of Dorchester.
April 25, 2024
An Updated Guide To Boston’s Allston/I-90 Megaproject
Since 2013, the state's leading transportation agencies have been planning a massive reconfiguration of Interstate 90, Soldiers Field Road and the Framingham/Worcester railroad line along the Charles River waterfront in Allston.
April 24, 2024
Transit Advocates Salute the MBTA’s Slowest Buses With Inaugural Pokey/Schleppie Awards
According to TransitMatters’ analysis, the clear “winner” was the Route 1 bus, which won twice for being the slowest and the most-bunched bus in the MBTA system.
April 22, 2024
