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  • ‘Big Dig’ Producer Takes His Show On the Road With ‘Highway Teardown Tour’
    by Dana Coffield
    March 9, 2026
    This podcaster is traveling the country in search of stories about America’s freeway-fighting movement. Is yours on the list?
  • A satellite view of Rutherford Avenue in Charleston, with Sullivan Square in the upper left and the Charles River in the lower right, highlighting the 25-acre footprint of the roadway in red.
    City of Boston Restarts Rutherford Avenue Design As Funding Deadline Looms
    by Christian MilNeil
    February 4, 2026
    The city needs to submit a design plan within the next few months or risk losing almost $200 million in funding.
  • A view down a long, straight two-lane highway lined with street lamps and newly planted trees. To the left is a large grassy area, several hundred feet wide, with rows of multi-story houses in the distance on the other side.
    MassDOT Begins Marketing Former Freeway Land In Fall River For Transit-Oriented Housing Development
    by Christian MilNeil
    January 27, 2026
    Last week, MassDOT announced that it would begin marketing over 25 acres of empty riverfront real estate that it owns in Fall River after successfully completing a project to demolish an obsolete waterfront highway that had formerly occupied the land.
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