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Traffic congestion

MassDOT Analysis: Commutes Are Faster For Everyone After Buses Got Their Own Lane On Tobin Bridge

An extra-long articulated bus in the white, yellow, and black MBTA color scheme waits in traffic on a wide multi-lane street with a red light in the distance. An electronic sign in a side window of the bus says "28 MATTAPAN." A street sign on the left says "Rexford Street".

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Street Design

Boston Wants to Redesign Blue Hill Ave. For Bus Riders, But Car Owners Dominate Public Meetings

Riders check out a newly-rebranded Merrimack Valley Transit bus, with colorful red, blue, and orange stripes wrapped around this bus, next to a fall-themed park with haybales, mums, and pumpkins in Lawrence, Massachusetts. In the background are several triple-decker apartment buildings. Courtesy of Merrimack Valley Transit.

Regional Transit Authorities

MeVa Launches Free Beach Bus This Weekend, From Lawrence to Salisbury Beach

A ferry attendant waits for a bicyclist to wheel his bike onboard at Lewis Wharf in East Boston. The downtown Boston skyline is visible in the background beyond Boston Harbor.

Transit

Risk of Driver Inconvenience Throws MassDOT Into the Warm Embrace of Fare-Free Transit

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Equity

How Can Sustainable Transportation Advocates Help End Poverty? An Interview with Matthew Desmond

A Black man wearing shorts and a t-shirt rides a chopper bicycle past a mural with flowers that says "Black Lives Matter"

Bicycling

Worcester Film Screening to Discuss the Realities of ‘Biking While Black’

A bus rider pays their fare with their phone during a test of the T's new fare system on an MBTA bus in downtown Boston in January 2021.

The T’s ‘Fare Transformation’ Project Is Transforming Into A Boondoggle

Kea Wilson

Bike/Walk Laws ‘Arrest’ the Mobility of Black Americans: Study

An apartment tower under construction, seen from the ground angle looking up into the sky. In the foreground is a black elevator enclosure with the MBTA T logo.

They’ve Been Warned: Attorney General Says Suburbs ‘Must Comply’ With Transit-Oriented Housing Law

A view of a downtown street lined withparked cars and historic 3-story brick buildings with a highway overpass crossing over the street in the middle distance. In the background are green hills below a blue sky.

Environment

Boston, North Adams Win Federal Funds to Heal Highway Blight