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Analysis: There Are No 15-Minute Cities in a Post-Roe America
The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will increase the average round-trip travel distance required to reach the closest legal abortion care provider from 50 miles to a staggering 250.
June 27, 2022
Guest Column: Another Crash Highlights State Inaction on Somerville’s ‘Corridor of Death’
Mystic Avenue is a state road under MassDOT’s jurisdiction and, together with MassDOT-controlled McGrath Highway, comprises Somerville’s “Corridor of Death.” It has been the site of three pedestrian deaths in less than two years.
December 21, 2021
Guest Column: How Mayor Michelle Wu Can Put Racial Equity in the Fast Lane
The Mayor doesn’t control the MBTA, but she can make Boston’s transit system more equitable from day one.
November 17, 2021
Guest Column: Raise the Gas Tax? Yes, but Fix Transportation Spending First
June 1, 2021
Guest Column: Electric Cars Won’t Save Us
To meet its climate goals, Massachusetts will need to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles from the state’s roadways within the next 25 years. But the Commonwealth’s new decarbonization roadmap aims to accomplish this not with improvements to transit and safer streets, but with widespread subsidies for new electric vehicles.
April 23, 2021
Opinion: Safe School Transportation Has A Place in the Next Infrastructure Package
April 5, 2021
Guest Column: ‘Caught In Providence’ Reveals the Trap of Car Dependency
Owning a car is supposedly a gateway to freedom, but for Americans struggling to make ends meet, it is a black hole of endless bills and traffic tickets that can suck up to one third of their total income.
November 10, 2020
Guest Column: MBTA Cuts Would Sever Boston’s Main Artery
The MBTA is the Boston region’s lifeblood: we need to invest in it to help solve the current crisis and create a better future.
October 28, 2020
Guest Column: Will the COVID Bicycle Surge Last?
"Is this a tipping point, or will cars continue to dominate?" asks Scott Mullen, TDM Director for A Better City.
September 29, 2020
Guest Column: It’s Time to Build Resilient Streets for Somerville
In cities across the globe emerging from COVID-19, we have consistently seen a slow return to transit, and a quick return (and even growth) in private car travel. We know that pre-COVID-19, fewer than half of Boston area residents drove to work. We also know that if this ratio were to change due to the crisis -- with people mode shifting to single occupancy vehicles - all of our lives would be impacted in ways both significant and menial, and not for the better.
September 22, 2020
