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Healey Administration Offers State Land For Housing – But Bloated Road Right-of-Way Remains Off-Limits
MassDOT controls about 9,500 lane-miles of paved roadway that covers almost 14,000 of the Commonwealth's acreage under asphalt.
July 22, 2025
Roadblocked: Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Eliminates Most Federal Funding For Allston Highway Realignment
Without a formal project agreement in place, MassDOT will receive only $8 million out of a $335 million "reconnecting communities" grant that the Biden administration had pledged.
July 10, 2025
MassDOT Makes More Space for Bikes and Pedestrians In Revised Designs for Medford Main Street
"It really did feel like they really did listen and change a lot of stuff,” says Ellery Klein, a Medford road safety advocate.
May 9, 2025
U.S. House Moves to Rescind $3.1B for Reconnecting Communities Divided by Highways
The legislation could cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding for Massachusetts projects, including a $335 million pledge for the reconstruction of I-90 in Boston's Allston neighborhood.
April 30, 2025
Truro Is Converting Part of An Obsolete Highway Interchange to Affordable Housing
Earlier this month, elected officials in Truro gathered at the town's community center to celebrate the official groundbreaking of a new 43-unit housing development on the site of an unbuilt MassDOT highway off-ramp.
April 28, 2025
Congestion Pricing Works in Small Metros, Too
The default pundit view is that New York City is the only place in the US where pricing makes sense because of the bountiful availability of buses and subways. A pricing experiment in Indiana and Kentucky, though, busts that myth entirely.
April 23, 2025
BREAKING: U.S. DOT Orders Review of All Grants Related to Green Infrastructure, Bikes
Now U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is coming for our bike lanes!
March 12, 2025
State Parks Agency Hosts Yet Another Hearing for Arborway Redesign
The state government's efforts to redesign the Arborway, an Emerald Necklace park in Jamaica Plan that's been taken over by unruly mobs of suburban drivers, will continue for at least another two years, according to state officials.
January 15, 2025
IT’S WORKING: Initial Data Show Congestion Pricing Has Stemmed The Tide of Years of Increasing Traffic
Travel times are down an average of 34 percent across the eight bridges and tunnels into the Central Business District, which saw a 7.5-percent drop in overall traffic, according to MTA figures.
January 13, 2025
Going Out With A Bang: Biden’s USDOT Pledges Funding to Infrastructure Projects Across Massachusetts
The largest grant award will fund the reconstruction of the McGrath Highway in Somerville as a narrower, grade-level boulevard.
January 13, 2025
