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Six Mass. Schools Step Up Their Bike Parking Game with New Safe Routes to School Grant
Six schools across Massachusetts are the new recipients of the 2025-2026 Bike Rack Grant out of MassDOT’s Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program.
March 5, 2026
MBTA Terminates Alewife Redevelopment Plan
"Current market conditions are not favorable to maximizing the property's value for transportation priorities," an MBTA spokesperson told StreetsblogMASS on Monday.
January 12, 2026
New Bedford City Council Considers Parking Reforms
The New Bedford City Council is considering reducing the city's parking production quotas, which currently require developers to build two off-street parking spaces for every new apartment.
December 15, 2025
Boston City Council Hosts Hearing Tuesday On City’s Dated Parking Rules
The Boston City Council’s Committee on Planning, Development, and Transportation will hold a public hearing on Tuesday afternoon "to explore amending the Boston Zoning Code to remove parking minimum requirements for new development."
December 8, 2025
City of Salem Eliminates Parking Requirements for New Apartments
"Salem needs more homes and less empty asphalt parking spaces at these projects,” said Salem Mayor Dominick Pangallo.
September 30, 2025
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
