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Workers repair and replace Green Line tracks in the tunnel near Arlington Street. Courtesy of the MBTA.

MBTA

Green Line Service Resumes With 12 More Slow Zones Removed

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Christian MilNeil

A promo image for the new "Spilling the T" podcast shows a sloshing teacup with a radio microphone coming out of it on a yellow background n the left and a headshot of MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng on the right. Text: "Spilling the T and MBTA podcast"

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Gov. Healey’s Office Ordered Takedown of MBTA Podcast, Emails Confirm

A sketch of proposed new housing alongside a new Arborway bus garage in Jamaica Plain, seen from an aerial perspective from over the Arnold Arboretum, looking toward Franklin Park. On the left edge of the sketch are a row of salmon-colored mid-rise buildings, indicating potential new housing along Washington Street. In the center is a large, single-story warehouse-style building in blue, which indicates the rough shape of a proposed new MBTA bus garage. The Arborway highway and greenway are in the foreground, running from the lower-left corner to the upper-right edge.

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Housing

Revised Arborway Bus Plan Would Make Room For Hundreds of New Transit-Oriented Homes

Workers wearing flourescent green jackets place new rebar under the subway tracks inside a subway tunnel. Behind them, three more workers watch over them from the top of an orange machine that has lights illuminating the work

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Night and Weekend Track Work Removes 9 More Slow Zones From the Red Line

A yellow maintenance train sits on the tracks next to a platform of a train station. A red-and-white sign on the right platform, which is adjacent to a second empty track, shows that this station is Cedar Grove on the MBTA red line.

Mattapan Branch track work

Elections and Politics

Report: The T Needs $24.5 Billion to Attain ‘State of Good Repair’

MBTA Unveils Plan to Eliminate Slow Zones with More Subway Shutdowns

TransitMatters Analysis Confirms Success of Last Month’s Red Line Track Work

A view of the new Columbus Ave. bus lanes and the new bus platforms at Walnut Avenue.

Walnut Ave. Bus Platforms

MBTA Board Updates: Bus Projects Make a Comeback

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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Bus lanes

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

A map of Dorchester and Jamaica Plain highlighting the location of the Fairmount Line and Red Line, which runs roughly parallel to the Fairmount Line about a mile to the east.

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Dorchester, Mattapan Lose Red Line Service Starting Saturday – Here’s What You Need to Know