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MBTA Proposes Fines, Rules for Its New Bus Camera Enforcement Systems
The proposed fines for blocking a bus lane start at $25 and become incrementally more expensive for subsequent offenses, with higher fines for commercial vehicles.
July 29, 2025
A Common Story: Traffic Engineers Pit Safety Improvements Against Parking In Woburn Center Project
Preliminary designs for a redesign of streets around Woburn's town center aim to improve safety in a crash-prone area, but project designers are also offering an alternative scheme that would remove proposed bike lanes along Main Street to preserve 16 on-street parking spaces.
June 30, 2025
Boston’s Chief of Streets Reminds Business Leaders That ‘Our Roads Are Not Getting Bigger’
The city's business leaders have convened for a series of talks on Boston's transportation challenges, which impede the region's growth.
April 22, 2025
Streetsblog Mourns Parking Reformer Donald Shoup
Rest in peace, Professor Shoup. Your legacy will live for generations.
February 8, 2025
New Plans for Riverside Green Line Station Call for More Housing, Less Parking
Long-delayed plans to redevelop MBTA-owned parking lots at the end of the Green Line's D branch in Newton are going through yet another revision, as developers seek to build more housing and less MBTA commuter parking on the site.
August 26, 2024
Eyes On the Street: Some Shade Flair for Day Square
This summer in East Boston, a new pop-up public space is covering up a sun-baked field of asphalt in Day Square, offering a small measure of relief for a neighborhood that is uniquely vulnerable to summer's increasingly miserable heat waves.
July 30, 2024
Upzone Update: New MBTA Zoning Law Prompts Some Suburbs to Re-Think Minimum Parking Rules
Upzone Update offers analysis of MBTA-C compliance efforts, produced by zoning expert Amy Dain and the staff of Boston Indicators, and syndicated here on StreetsblogMASS with their permission. You can subscribe to the newsletter and read past Upzone Update articles here.
June 21, 2024
In 2023, City Planners Approved Enough Parking to Bring 8,000 More Cars Into Boston
In spite of an acute housing crisis and unfulfilled goals to slash motor vehicle pollution throughout the city, Boston's planning agency approved more parking spaces than homes over the course of 2023.
February 6, 2024
Even With Tunnel Traffic and Dirt-Cheap Prices, the T’s North Shore Parking Garages Are Mostly Empty This Summer
If the T's parking lots are mostly empty at a time of unusually high highway congestion, in spite of deeply discounted fares and parking rates, why are we still subsidizing them?
August 4, 2023
Legislation Aims to Take the Measure of Traffic Impacts From App-Based Delivery Services
Because app-based food delivery services operate with very little oversight in Massachusetts, it’s difficult to estimate the scale of their impact.
March 14, 2023
