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Christian MilNeil

A diagram of the Green Line service during a 15-day shutdown from Dec. 8 to Dec. 22. The diagram shows that the entire E branch will be closed with no shuttle service from Heath Street to North Station, with a parallel yellow line indicating bus service along the same route on the 39. The C and D branches will be closed west of Kenmore, with shuttles between Kenmore and Back Bay. The B branch will be closed west of Babcock Street with shuttle service indicated as a black dotted line to serve stations between Babcock and Back Bay.

2025-05-20-green-line-june-4-8-diversion-diagram_creditMBTA

Grinch Line: MBTA Will Close the Core of the Green Line For the Holiday Season

A bus stop sign next to a bus shelter where a passenger is waiting shows two bus routes - the 75 to Watertown Yard and the 66 to Harvard Square - next to a yellow clock icon with a "15" in the middle.

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MBTA Adds More Bus, Subway Service With Winter Schedule Updates

A bus drives up a long, straight city street lined with parked cars and 2-3 story buildignsat dusk.

109 bus on Broadway in Everett

Massachusetts Transit Agencies Win $106 Million to Buy New Buses Statewide

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 area platforms. General motor vehicle traffic is confined to 1-2 lanes on either side of the busway. Along the sidewalks are green dedicated bike lanes, which are generally separated from the adjacent car lanes by gardens surrounded by curbs. 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.

2024-11-04-blue-hill-ave-rendering-at-Walk-Hill_creditMBTA

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Boston’s Bus Lane Projects Are Stuck In Red Tape, Leaving Riders Stuck In Traffic

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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Paying With Their Time: Increasing Traffic Congestion Erodes Benefits of Boston’s Fare-Free Buses

A horizontal strip diagram of the MBTA's Red Line between JFK/UMass (at left) and Braintree (at right) showing service alternatives during the November 15 – 23 closure of the Braintree branch. A dotted black line connects (from left to right) the North Quincy, Wollaston, Quincy Center, Quincy Adams, and Braintree stops, indicating bus shuttle service. A purple line parallel to the red line indicates the Old Colony commuter rail lines, which stops at JFK/UMass, Quincy Center, and Braintree. At the bottom of the map is the Ashmont branch of the Red Line, which will operate as usual.

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T Suspends Quincy, Braintree Red Line Branch Nov. 15-23

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Meghan Volcy

A ferry attendant waits for a bicyclist to wheel his bike onboard at Lewis Wharf in East Boston. The downtown Boston skyline is visible in the background beyond Boston Harbor.

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MassDOT and MBTA Are Studying  Expanded Ferry Service

A strip map of the MBTA Green Line Extension route in Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford with a dotted black line representing shuttle service to all stops between North Station and Medford/Tufts, except Union Square, which is represented as a red X with no shuttle service. The Haymarket, Government Center, and Park Street stations are also represented with red Xs, indicating that those Green Line platforms will also be closed, with parallel service available on the Orange Line from North Station to Haymarket and Downtown Crossing.

November 2025 Green Line service interruption

MBTA Suspends Green Line Service Through Downtown Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville Through Nov. 13

A strip map of the MBTA Green Line D branch with a dotted black line representing shuttle service to all stops between Riverside and Kenmore, except Beaconsfield, which is represented as a red X with no shuttle service. A parallel green dashed line represents an express shuttle route between Newton Highlands near the center of the map and Copley on the right edge.

Green Line diversion map October 2025

Week-Long Green Line D Branch Closure Begins Friday Night

A rendering of a new bus garage being planned along the Arborway near Forest Hills. The image shows a long, two-story warehouse building with gray brick and windows on the ground floor and green vertically striped siding on the top floor. In the foreground are people walking and biking along the existing Arborway bike path.

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MBTA Projects Get A $850 Million Boost From Fair Share Funds