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Christian MilNeil

A view up a city street under blue skies. A street sign on a traffic light reads "Harvard Ave." Several people on bikes ride towards the camera in a bike lane near the left side of the photo.

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MassDOT

Advocates Win Concessions As State Starts Value-Engineering Allston I-90 Megaproject

Monica Tibbits-Nutt

Sec. Tibbits-Nutt Discusses MetroWest Transport Issues With Rep. Cataldo

Workers in fluorescent yellow vests and helmets place tracks inside a subway station below a green "Park Street" sign. The platform of the station is covered in railroad ties and plates and other construction materials. In the distance a yellow lull forklift is on the tracks at the edge of the station.

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Elections and Politics

Governor’s Transportation Funding Task Force Convenes for Its Inaugural Meeting

A map of the Independence Greenway, which currently exists in two sections in the town of Peabody: the western section extends from the down's western boundary to a park near Interstate 95. The eastern section extends from just east of I-95 to Route 128. A planned extension, shown as a green-dashed line on the map, would extend the eastern portion a little over a mile into the town's center. Another future project, shown as a red-dashed line, would connect the eastern and western segments under an underpass of Interstate 95, and also connect to the Danvers Rail Trail, which extends northward through the town of Danvers.

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Trails

MassDOT Plans to Bridge A Major Barrier In Border-to-Boston Trail Network

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Highways

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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New North Washington Street Bridge Will Partially Open In December

Governor Healey Promotes Transit Advocate Monica Tibbits-Nutt to Run MassDOT

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Highway Boondoggles 2023: A Cape Cod Canard

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