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MBTA Will Paint 4.8 Miles of New Bus Lanes This Summer
The MBTA has reached agreements with the cities of Boston, Somerville, Revere, Malden, Lynn, and the Town of Brookline to paint roughly 4.8 miles of new dedicated bus lanes this summer in an effort to improve bus service reliability as traffic congestion comes roaring back in the wake of the pandemic.
June 28, 2021
Help Pick A Route for the Silver Line Extension Through Everett
Planners seek feedback on potential alignments that would extend the Silver Line busway from its current terminus in Chelsea into Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, and downtown Boston.
April 27, 2021
Trot, Trot to Boston With New Bus and Bike Lanes in Lynn
The quick-build project helps connect the newly-extended Northern Strand Trail to the city’s downtown district.
April 16, 2021
Malden City Council Endorses More Bus, Bike Lanes for City Center
The current Centre Street is a four- to five-lane street built in the late 1970s, shortly after the city's new Orange Line station opened, over the buried headwaters of the Malden River.
April 15, 2021
Boston, MBTA to Extend Columbus Ave. Bus Lanes to Ruggles
The new center-running busway with dedicated platforms will speed bus services along Boston's highest-ridership bus corridor.
April 1, 2021
MBTA Board Updates: Advocates Press for Another Tobin Bridge Bus Lane
The MassDOT Board of Directors and the MTBA Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB) held a joint meeting on Monday afternoon with updates on planned transit service cuts, construction projects, and post-pandemic ridership projections. Here's our roundup:
February 22, 2021
Cambridge Starts Planning for Bus, Bike Improvements Through Porter Square
Joseph Barr, Cambridge Director of Traffic, Parking, and Transportation, wrote in a memo to the City Council that the city is "in the process of hiring a consultant to support the design of quick-build separated bike lanes along Massachusetts Avenue from Roseland Street to Beech Street through Porter Square."
February 5, 2021
Brookline Considers Bus Lanes For Its Biggest Transit Bottleneck
The proposal would benefit the town's busiest bus corridor, a heavily-congested bottleneck where three busy bus routes converge near the Boston border.
December 23, 2020
Malden Joins the Dedicated Bus Lane Club
Malden, in collaboration with the MBTA and MassDOT, has painted a red shared bus-and-bike lane on Florence Street northeast of the Malden Center Orange Line station to benefit the MBTA's routes 104, 105, and 99.
December 10, 2020
How have pandemic bus lanes worked out in Chicago, Boston, and SF?
Boston and its surrounding suburbs have added 14 miles of bus lanes during the pandemic.
December 4, 2020
