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Bluebikes and ValleyBike Will Offer Free Rides For Election Day
The Commonwealth's two biggest bikesharing networks are aiming to make it easier for people to get to the polls – and everywhere else they need to go – for Election Day on Tuesday.
November 4, 2024
Minnesota, Nice – How Governors Walz and Healey Stack Up On Transportation Issues
Earlier this summer, Vice President Kamala Harris took the reins of the Democratic Party and chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
October 29, 2024
After Short-Lived Ban, Kei Trucks Get the OK In Massachusetts
The tempest over kei trucks reflects an approach to regulations that has historically prioritized safety for people inside motor vehicles at the expense of safety for everyone else.
September 25, 2024
Hand-Count of Ballots Gives Incumbent Marjorie Decker Apparent Victory In Close Cambridge State House Race
Editor's note: this story was updated at 12:30 p.m. Thursday to include results from the most recent ballot counts.
September 4, 2024
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
A Rider’s Guide to the MBTA’s Looming Financial Crisis
The agency needs $700 million in new state funding to avoid draconian service cuts next year. Governor Healey promises "we're not going back, we're full steam ahead."
August 23, 2024
Opinion: Democrats Are Calling Trump and Vance ‘Weird.’ Let’s Do the Same for Car Dependency.
Is it time to make automobility weird again?
August 2, 2024
House Economic Development Bill Could Include Language to Keep Cars Out of Bus Lanes
Rep. Adrian Madaro of East Boston is sponsoring an amendment to a state economic development bill that, if adopted, could finally give the green light for the MBTA to use cameras and issue fines to drivers caught blocking dedicated bus lanes.
June 25, 2024
Declining Infrastructure Funding From Healey Admin. Puts T’s ‘State of Good Repair’ Further Out of Reach
In spite of inflation and growing maintenance backlogs, the T is facing a bleak future of dwindling infrastructure funding from the Healey administration.
June 12, 2024
Watch: Can You Put a Price on Congestion in Boston?
After years of advocacy and planning, the Board of NYC's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) had, until recently, been poised to implement the city's congestion pricing program, which would have helped the city finance major upgrades to its transit system.
June 11, 2024
