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Advocates Win Concessions As State Starts Value-Engineering Allston I-90 Megaproject
In the past month, MassDOT has agreed to two significant changes in its Allston I-90 megaproject in response to pressures from sustainable transportation advocates.
April 22, 2024
Sec. Tibbits-Nutt Discusses MetroWest Transport Issues With Rep. Cataldo
MassDOT Secretary and CEO sits down for a not-particularly-challenging but illuminating interview with State Rep. Simon Cataldo (Concord) for a new video on the legislator's YouTube channel.
March 8, 2024
Governor’s Transportation Funding Task Force Convenes for Its Inaugural Meeting
Governor Healey’s newly-created Transportation Funding Task Force, which will make recommendations for a more sustainable long-term source of public revenues for the MBTA and other statewide transportation projects, will meet for the first time Thursday afternoon.
February 29, 2024
MassDOT Plans to Bridge A Major Barrier In Border-to-Boston Trail Network
MassDOT is designing a new trail connection that would fill a major gap in the Border-to-Boston trail network by linking the Independence Greenway and the Danvers Rail Trail in the City of Peabody.
February 9, 2024
MassDOT’s Allston I-90 Plans Suffer Another Rejection for Federal Funding
For the second year in a row, Washington has rejected a MassDOT request for a large federal grant to finance the Allston Multimodal Project in Boston's Allston neighborhood.
February 5, 2024
Allston Project’s Next Challenge: Keeping the Turnpike’s Traffic Jams Out of A New ‘Transit-Oriented’ Neighborhood
It's been two years since planners nailed down a consensus for a new alignment for the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston.
January 3, 2024
New North Washington Street Bridge Will Partially Open In December
A construction project that has dragged on longer the entire existence of Streetsblog Massachusetts is reaching a major milestone next month, when traffic between the North End and Charlestown will start using part of the new North Washington Street Bridge.
November 27, 2023
Governor Healey Promotes Transit Advocate Monica Tibbits-Nutt to Run MassDOT
Editor's note: The following is a lightly-edited press release from the Office of Governor Healey.
November 13, 2023
Highway Boondoggles 2023: A Cape Cod Canard
It's not just the replacement of the Bourne and Sagamore bridges that's the problem — it's all the other highways that will turn Cape Cod into a parking lot.
November 13, 2023
More Details On MassDOT’s Plans to Rebuild Bowker Overpass
MassDOT is moving ahead with plans to replace a crumbling segment of the notorious Bowker Overpass near Kenmore Square with a pair of new bridges.
October 30, 2023
