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MBTA Wants You to Help Plan for Its Future with ‘Focus 2050’
For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, the MBTA is updating its long-range plans for the future of transportation in eastern Massachusetts.
May 19, 2026
Local Planner’s Design Prize Victory Will Give Malden’s Bike Kitchen Space to Grow
A local transportation planner has won an international grant competition with her designs to upgrade the Bike to the Sea Bike Kitchen along the Northern Strand Trail in Malden.
May 7, 2026
The Bay State’s Special Education Transportation System Is Draining School Budgets
The factors at the core of the cost issue include distant out-of-district placements, a “persistent” shortage of qualified drivers, and lack of vendor competition, according to the Office of the Inspector General.
April 8, 2026
Construction Is Underway On Back Bay Station Makeover
Developers are promising to deliver “a first-class transit hub.”
February 9, 2026
MBTA Communities Act Holdouts Are Losing State Funding
"We will take action as appropriate by the end of the month" against towns that maintain segregationist zoning rules in violation of state law, warns Attorney General Andrea Campbell.
January 16, 2026
MassDOT Highway Administrator Discusses Challenges of Aging Highways and Rising Costs
MassDOT Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver says that the state’s roadways are at a “critical inflection point” with aging assets, a surge of new funding from Fair Share, and an urgency to deliver safer infrastructure, faster.
October 13, 2025
Trump’s Budget Cuts Won’t Stop Cambridge From Bridging Its Communities
While the federal government has been pulling grant funding to exploit political divisions, communities like Cambridge are working to keep neighborhoods and people connected by replacing cancelled grants from Washington with alternative sources of funding.
September 23, 2025
Ambulance Data Reveals That Boston Drivers Are 4 Times More Likely to Run Over Pedestrians From Black Neighborhoods
"Overall, residents of predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods are about four times more likely than residents of predominantly white neighborhoods to be struck as a pedestrian."
July 1, 2025
Black Transportation Justice: How Mobility Affects Housing, Health, and Freedom in a Modern World
Part 3 in a three-part series.
June 26, 2025
Black Transportation Justice Boston Spotlight: Mattapan Food and Fitness
As part of reporter Meghan Volcy's three-part series on the intersection of Black history and transportation justice throughout United States history, she spoke to Shavel'le Olivier to learn more about her work with the Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition and how transportation justice ties directly to health, housing, and community empowerment.
June 26, 2025
