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Highways

MassDOT Starts Planning For Tobin Bridge Replacement

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T Releases Internal Audits On Track Maintenance Issues That Led to Spring’s Systemwide Slow Zones

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Environment

Successful North Shore Transit Incentives End On Friday

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New Labor Contract Generates a Surge of Job Applications at the T

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MBTA Board Updates, Guest Starring Mayor Wu

Riders wait on a platform under a canopy with an orange streetcar waiting on the other side of the platform. Signage on the platform indicates that this is the Mattapan station.

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T Will Close Ashmont, Mattapan Branches of the Red Line for Two Weeks in October

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Elections and Politics

Breaking A Campaign Promise, Healey Admin. Denies Public Records Request for MBTA’s Repair Needs

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Final State Budget Will Let Mayor Wu Appoint A New MBTA Board Member

An extra-long articulated bus in the white, yellow, and black MBTA color scheme waits in traffic on a wide multi-lane street with a red light in the distance. An electronic sign in a side window of the bus says "28 MATTAPAN." A street sign on the left says "Rexford Street".

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Street Design

Boston Wants to Redesign Blue Hill Ave. For Bus Riders, But Car Owners Dominate Public Meetings

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Parking

Even With Tunnel Traffic and Dirt-Cheap Prices, the T’s North Shore Parking Garages Are Mostly Empty This Summer