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Trails

DCR Starts Construction on Waltham-Weston Mass. Central Trail Connection

An aerial view of a large traffic rotary on a major highway that runs left-right through the center of the image. On the bottom edge are several large oil tanks and some railroad tracks. On the upper half of the image are densely-populated residential and commercial neighborhoods.

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Highways

City of Everett Wins Federal Funds to Bridge the Sweetser Circle Barrier

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MBTA Endorses A New Bus Rapid Transit Route Through Everett

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Meghan Volcy

A rendering of a wide street from a birds-eye perspective. The center of the street features a red dedicated busway, with two lanes (one in each direction) separated from adjacent traffic with landscaped medians and bus stop waiting areas. General motor vehicle traffic is confined to 1-2 lanes on either side of the busway. Along the sidewalks are green dedicated bike lanes. A label in the upper left denotes the Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library, and another label denotes the intersecting street as Walk Hill St.

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Transit

Boston Officially Commits to Building Dedicated Busway on Blue Hill Ave.

<p>Sam Mintz is currently the editor of <a href="https://brookline.news/">Brookline.News</a>, a nonprofit news website covering the Town of Brookline. Before moving back to the Boston area in 2021, Sam spent five years in D.C. covering Congress and federal agencies for Politico and E&amp;E News.</p>


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Brookline to Install Bus-Only Lanes On Route 9 Bottleneck This Year

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Boston’s Next Bus Rapid Transit Line Would Link Downtown, Sullivan Square Before the End of This Decade

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‘Cameras Don’t Have Guns’ – Boston’s Black Community Weighs In On Camera-Based Traffic Enforcement

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Legislature’s Latest Attempt for Automated Traffic Enforcement Is Missing the Bus

A map of the Boston region highlighting proposed high-frequency bus routes in the MBTA's bus network redesign. Highlighted route segments in green indicate existing bus lanes (including Silver Line's Washington Street through the South End in Boston, Huntington Ave, the Columbus Avenue bus lanes in Roxbury, and segments of Massachusetts Ave. across the Charles River and in Arlington). Pink segments indicate bus priority corridors being planned, including Blue Hill Ave. and Warren Street for the route 28, and Western Avenue in Allston. Yellow highlighted segments indicate "new bus priority needed," on streets like Meridian St. in East Boston and Arsenal St. in Watertown.

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Here’s the MBTA’s Bus Lane Wishlist for Its New ‘High Frequency’ Bus Routes

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Boston’s New Huntington Ave. Bus Lanes Are Saving T Riders 25 Hours Every Workday