Header

Streetsblog Network

Streetsblog Massachusetts

Highways

‘Big Dig’ Producer Takes His Show On the Road With ‘Highway Teardown Tour’

<p>Got tips? Send them to me via Signal, the encrypted messaging app, at 207-310-0728. You can also follow me on <a href="https://better.boston/@cmilneil" rel="me">Mastodon.</a></p>


Christian MilNeil

A satellite view of Rutherford Avenue in Charleston, with Sullivan Square in the upper left and the Charles River in the lower right, highlighting the 25-acre footprint of the roadway in red.

City of Boston Restarts Rutherford Avenue Design As Funding Deadline Looms

A view down a long, straight two-lane highway lined with street lamps and newly planted trees. To the left is a large grassy area, several hundred feet wide, with rows of multi-story houses in the distance on the other side.

Housing

MassDOT Begins Marketing Former Freeway Land In Fall River For Transit-Oriented Housing Development

A smiling black woman with long braided hair wearing a black-and-yellow plaid patterned sweater

Meghan Volcy

An aerial map of the Reid Overpass Viaduct and Memorial Drive rotary area in Cambridge, Massachusetts, highlighting project boundaries and notable infrastructure including the Dr. Paul Dudley White Bike Path, Morse School Playground, MRWA CSO Treatment Facility, Goose Park, Class A Life Sciences Building, and the B.U. Boathouse.

MassDOT

See MassDOT’s Plans for a New Highway Interchange on the Cambridge Riverfront

A wide sidewalk path runs alongside a line of cars waiting for a traffic signal in the distance. To the right is an overgrown meadow and a large leafy tree that shades the path. On the left edge a crosswalk leads across the roadway. In the middle distance to the left is a brick-clad highway viaduct.

MassDOT Airs Options for Obsolete Memorial Drive Highway Interchange in Cambridge

A view down a two-lane, one-way street with a wide shared-use path on the right side and a wide grassy lawn to the left. Across the lawn is another street lined with low-rise buildings, with one taller 6-story building standing out in the middle distance.

Eyes on the Street: The Fall of a Freeway in Fall River

Elections and Politics

Trump Budget Proposal Seeks To Decimate Federal Transit Funding

Temporary fencing lines the sidewalk on the DCR-controlled approach to the Beades Bridge. Google Street View imagery suggests that the temporary fencing has been there for nearly 8 years. Photo by Tony Dutzik.

MassDOT Highway Administrator Discusses Challenges of Aging Highways and Rising Costs

A line of large cars waits at a highway off-ramp at right as three kids on bikes approach the camera on a long crosswalk next to a multi-lane highway. Above the offramp at right is a large electronic billboard rising up into the blue sky.

Legislation

Gov. Healey’s Environmental Bond Bill Would Surrender Dept. of Conservation ‘Parkways’ to State Highway Agency

An aging highway viaduct, seen from below, with severely rusted green-painted steel beams that sit on tall rust-stained concrete columns with considerable damage. In the background is a high-rise apartment building.