The federal government is handing over supervision of MBTA safety programs – including outstanding items from its 2022 safety management inspection – back to the Commonwealth’s own rail safety regulators.
The city’s ‘street furniture’ contract provides for the maintenance of hundreds of bus shelters and information kiosks across the city in exchange for outdoor advertising space.
Key MBTA bus routes continue to get slower while Mayor Wu’s administration postpones and cancels long-planned infrastructure projects, according to this year’s annual analysis of the MBTA’s slowest bus routes from TransitMatters.
MassDOT’s crash records indicate that there has been a significant increase in crashes on Damon Road since the agency completed a road-widening project in 2024.
An unidentified driver struck and killed Yuk Foo Chan, an 83-year-old West Roxbury resident, while he was riding his bicycle Tuesday evening on Milford Street near the Milford-Medway town line, according to local police.
Late last week, the City of Boston and the MBTA released yet another revised design for the Blue Hill Avenue busway project, which aims to speed up buses on frequent-service routes like the 28 and 22 with a dedicated center-running busway with new stations and amenities for riders.