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New Green Line tracks and fresh pavement on the future Community Path, pictured from Cross Street in Somerville, looking northwest towards the McGrath Highway, on July 30, 2021.

Mass. Officials Still Don’t Know How Much Money We’ll Get From Infrastructure Law

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 29, 2021 | No Comments

Transportation advocates in Massachusetts have lots of big ideas for projects they’d like to buy with new funding from President Biden’s new infrastructure bill: a faster passenger rail line between Boston and Springfield; a new subway to connect the Red and Blue lines in downtown Boston; a realignment of the Massachusetts Turnpike through Allston. But […]

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Monday’s Headlines Are Still Stuffed

By Blake Aued | Nov 29, 2021 | No Comments

If history is any indication, cost overruns and bureaucratic foot-dragging will doom the Biden administration's big-ticket items.

Portrait of Whitney Zhang of Boston on the Cambridge side of the Mass. Ave. Bridge on Nov. 23, 2021

Mass. Ave. Bridge Users Praise Improved Bike Lanes: ‘I Hope We See More of This’

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 24, 2021 | No Comments

Tuesday afternoon’s rush hour was bitterly cold, but for the steady stream of bike riders and pedestrians using the Mass. Ave. Bridge, a pilot road configuration that aims to calm motor vehicle traffic by widening the bridge’s busy bike lanes helped ameliorate the discomfort of the biting winds sweeping across the Charles River. “I came […]

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Wisconsin Car Attack is an Example of Our Failure to Prevent Cars Being Used as Weapons

By Streetsblog | Nov 24, 2021 | No Comments

Policy, culture, and environment create conditions that all too often permit such crimes — and by failing to address those conditions, advocates argue, we practically ensure that such atrocities will continue to happen.

A memorial to the 39 people killed by drivers in the city of Springfield during 2020 and 2021 at a vigil held on the steps of the Springfield Central Library on Sunday, November 21, the World Day of Remembrance. Photo courtesy of Springfield City Councilor Jesse Lederman, via Twitter.

Vigil for Crash Victims Amplifies Need for Safer Streets in Springfield

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 22, 2021 | No Comments

Sunday was the World Day of Remembrance, an annual memorial for the lives lost to traffic crashes. In Springfield, residents joined elected officials on the front steps of the Springfield Central Library, just a few feet away from an informal pedestrian crossing where drivers have struck and killed two victims in the past decade – […]

Rendering of the proposed Northern Strand on-street bikeway on South Common Street, approaching Market Street, in downtown Lynn.

MassDOT Makes Plans to Extend Northern Strand Through Downtown Lynn

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 22, 2021 | No Comments

The project would build new two-way, curb-separated bike lanes along the south side of the Market Square roundabout (pictured above), the Lynn Common, and Market Street.

Blue Hill Avenue near Talbot Ave., looking north towards Franklin Park, on the evening of March 5, 2020.

City of Boston, MBTA Win Funds to Transform Blue Hill Avenue

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 18, 2021 | No Comments

City officials have estimated that the project would benefit roughly 20,000 bus riders in Dorchester and Mattapan, reduce their collective commuting times by 800 hours every day, and, with less time wasted in traffic, allow the T to make over 100 additional daily trips on existing routes using the same number of buses and drivers.

The WRTA's downtown bus hub, next to Worcester's Union Station.

Board Votes for One More Year of Zero-Fare Buses in Worcester

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 18, 2021 | No Comments

The WRTA will be free to ride until the end of 2022; meanwhile, the agency will undertake a public process to design a new fare policy to implement when federal relief funding runs out.

Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu in front of the entrance to the Forest Hills T station

Guest Column: How Mayor Michelle Wu Can Put Racial Equity in the Fast Lane

By Jonathan Timm | Nov 17, 2021 | No Comments

The Mayor doesn’t control the MBTA, but she can make Boston’s transit system more equitable from day one.

A route 28 bus advertising the fare-free pilot passes through Grove Hall on Blue Hill Avenue on October 5, 2021.

In Her First Day in Office, Mayor Wu Proposes More Fare-Free Bus Routes for Boston

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 17, 2021 | No Comments

"Building on the fare-free 28 bus pilot created by Mayor Janey, we will expand access to transit across our neighborhoods, connecting more people to their schools, places of worship, small businesses, and community centers––and easing congestion on our bus riders and drivers alike,” said Mayor Michelle Wu in a press release announcing the proposal.