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Rep. Ayanna Pressley Makes Surprise Appearance at Boston’s ‘Ride for Black Lives’
On Sunday, hundreds of riders gathered in Franklin Park for the summer's third Ride for Black Lives in Boston, which featured an appearance by Rep. Ayanna Pressley, co-chair of the Congressional Bike Caucus and a co-founder of Washington's Future of Transportation Caucus.
September 1, 2020
Electric Trucks and Buses Are Coming… Just Not Fast Enough to Save the Climate
Massachusetts has signed a multi-state pact to make zero-emission vehicles at least 30 percent of new bus and truck sales by 2030, and 100 percent by 2050 – but there’s considerable uncertainty about whether the pledge is ambitious enough to help Massachusetts meet its latest climate goals.
August 31, 2020
City Councilor Michelle Wu Pitches ‘Green New Deal’ for Boston
"The climate crisis and our current public health crises are intertwined, and wrapped in a political system that relies on structural racism and injustice," says Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu. "We need to tackle all of these problems together in this moment: climate justice is racial and economic justice, and cities can lead the charge."
August 18, 2020
Lawmakers Are Poised to Reform Fare Enforcement on the T
In addition authorizing debt spending for hundreds of infrastructure projects across the Commonwealth, the multi-billion dollar bond package that the Massachusetts Senate passed earlier this month would also make significant reforms to how the MBTA enforces fare payments on its trains, buses, and ferries.
July 28, 2020
COVID-19 Exacerbates Food Insecurity for Greater Boston’s Car-Free Households
“Communities like Chelsea wouldn’t have been so vulnerable had we not had structural injustices in place, like compromised public health, poorer air quality, and industrial impacts,” said Rosann Bongiovanni, the executive director of GreenRoots.
July 21, 2020
‘People Before Highways’ Author Picked to Head Boston’s New Equity Cabinet
Dr. Crockett joined StreetsblogMASS earlier this month to discuss her book, 'People Before Highways,' a chronicle of anti-highway activist movements in the Boston region in the 1960s.
June 30, 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
Study: Self-Driving Cars Are Worse at Detecting Darker-Skinned Pedestrians
Autonomous vehicles might not solve the already disproportionate pedestrian death toll faced by black communities.
June 18, 2020
Broad Coalition Calls for Reduced Police Influence in MBTA Management
A large coalition of community groups, environmental organizations, and transit advocates are petitioning the MBTA to acknowledge the threats of police brutality and take steps to ensure that the region's transit system will not be used as a tool for law enforcement.
June 15, 2020
