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A drone's-eye view of the massive Alewife parking garage in Cambridge. The top level of the garage is roughly the size of 3.5 football fields, and is completely empty of any parked cars in the image.

The T Is Throwing More Money Into the Alewife Money Pit

Christian MilNeil

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A wide intersection surrounded by older brick and masonry multi-story buildings.

Driver Kills Man On Bicycle In Downtown Lynn

The victim has since been identified as Emerson Imul-Molina, a 30-year-old resident of Lynn.

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A presentation slide with the headline "Phase 1- Early Action Infrastructure" shows an overhead view of an industrial urban neighborhood with several rectangles highlighted in yellow representing buildings to be demolished and a strip of parallel yellow lines representing 6 new layover railroad tracks in the center of the image.

MBTA Reveals Its Plans For 'Phase 1' of New Widett Circle Rail Yard

Christian MilNeil

The planned facility will include charging facilities for electric trains and the first phase is expected to be operational by 2030.

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A black-and-white historic photo of an old streetcar with open sides. A sign on the roof of the side reads "Allston" and a sign on the roof at the front of the trolley reads "Pearl St." A man in a double-breasted jacket with a conductor's cap and a walrus mustache stands at the controls at the front of the trolley.

Happy Birthday to America’s Oldest Subway

Jaime Moore-Carrillo

On this day 129 years ago, at around 6 a.m., trolley 1752 plunged into a gaping hole in Boston’s Public Garden and became the nation’s first subway car. 

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Never Mind the Bollards, Here Come Thursday’s Headlines

Blake Aued

Despite the constraints they place on public spaces, the barriers are necessary to protect people from weaponized vehicles.

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