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MassDOT’s Allston I-90 Plans Suffer Another Rejection for Federal Funding

A concept plan shows a grid of new streets – most of which are 4-5 lanes wide – overlaid on top of the vacant triangle of land between Cambridge Street and I-90 in Allston. Four new streets, labelled (from west to east) Seattle St. Connector, Stadium Way Connector, Cattle Drive Connector, and East Drive Connector – would run north-south from I-90 to Cambridge Street. Four other streets would run east-west, roughly parallel to I-90 and the Worcester Line train tracks: two streets are essentially frontage roads for I-90, the northerly (eastbound) which is labelled "Lincoln St. Connector". A block north is a street labelled "Cambridge St. South." And in the northeastern tip of the triangle, running only between Stadium Way Connector and Soldiers Field Road, is a street labelled "Hotel Way"

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Allston Project’s Next Challenge: Keeping the Turnpike’s Traffic Jams Out of A New ‘Transit-Oriented’ Neighborhood

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Feds, Advocates Talk About What’s In The New MUTCD (And What Isn’t)!

An aerial view of a major highway interchange. In the foreground is the intersection of two multi-lane suburban roads. Behind it is a large parking lot, with a gas station and a handful of other highway-oriented businesses surrounded by asphalt. In the middle distance, a four-lane expressway runs from the right to upper left. In the upper left, the highway crosses a canal over an arched bridge. Another highway runs parallel to the canal into the distance in the photograph's upper right corner.

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MassDOT Wins ‘Mega’ Grant for Sagamore Bridge Replacement

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DCR Breaks Ground On Major Road Diet in Newton

Flooding on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester during a "king tide" event

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The Climate Emergency

New Morrissey Boulevard Commission Will Come Up With Another Plan for Boston’s Wettest Highway

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DOT’s New Emissions Rule is a Big Deal, Even if It Doesn’t Punish States for Polluting

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Highway Boondoggles 2023: This Year’s Poster Children for Bad Projects

A historic color photograph of the North Station area in Boston looking north toward Cambridge. The train platforms of North Station are in the center, and above them are an under-construction highway viaduct. To the left of that bridge is a triangular concrete tower, which would later become the Zakim Bridge. To the right of that is an older double-decker highway, which was the previous route of I-93 through downtown Boston. The Charles River runs from left to lower right in the middle of the photo and I-93 meanders into the distant horizon at upper center.

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An Interview With the Producer of GBH’s ‘The Big Dig’ Podcast

A two-frame animation shows the current-day view of the Bowker Overpass compared with a rendering illustration of the same view after a new highway project is complete. The current-day view shows a patched-up highway overpass extending over a railroad and multi-lane freeway that runs horizontally across the middle of the image. Beyond the highway, the overpass continues over city streets among the treetops in a park. In the rendering, a new overpass runs along the same course, but two on- and off-ramps connecting the overpass to the surface streets in the distance have been removed, and a second, parallel bridge carries three lanes of traffic and a wide bike and pedestrian path to the left.

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More Details On MassDOT’s Plans to Rebuild Bowker Overpass