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Christian MilNeil

A diptych of two smiling white women in business suits. On the left is a middle-aged woman with short salt-and-pepper hair. On the right is a blonde woman with shoulder-length hair.

Elections and Politics

Boston City Council Seeks Oversight of Mayor’s Transportation Agenda

A photo taken from an elevated vantage point of a bulldozer parked in a bike lane with a bucket full of white plastic bollards.

Globe Report Implicates Mayor Michelle Wu In Street Safety, Transit Project Cancellations

<p>Brian Kane is Executive Director of the <a href="https://mbtaadvisoryboard.org/">MBTA Advisory Board</a>, a quasi-state body providing budget oversight of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority on behalf of 178 cities and towns in the Commonwealth. He is also the volunteer Chair of the Brookline, Massachusetts Transportation Board. Established in 1974, by statute this board manages parking, traffic, and multi-modal transportation in New England’s largest town by population. Previously, Kane worked in both operations and budget management at the MBTA.</p>


A middle-aged man in a suit stands in the operator cab of a light rail train.

Brian Kane

A crowded train hall filled with people, many of whom are carrying luggage. A large electronic sign hanging from the high ceiling displays upcoming train departures.

Housing

Guest Column: South Station Is Not An Adequate Emergency Shelter

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.

MBTA

Congress Allocates $80 Million to Build Blue Hill Ave. Busway

A brown-skinned man in a thick red winter parka and black hat tosses a huge chunk of snow aside as other volunteers behind him dig through a large snow bank.

Accessibility

Accessibility Advocates Press Boston City Council for Better Snow Removal

A smiling black woman with long braided hair wearing a black-and-yellow plaid patterned sweater

Meghan Volcy

A wide, clear sidewalk in downtown Malden Center leads commuters toward the MBTA station, with snow piled at the curb.

Uncategorized

Eyes On the Street: Three Weeks After the Storm, Snow Woes Remain Across Greater Boston

Two people with shovels stand at the end of a 5-foot-deep canyon of snow at the side of a wide city street on a winter evening

Bicycling

While City Hall Dithers, Boston Cyclists Union Takes Snow Removal Into Their Own Hands

This rendering of Back Bay is from inside the station facing the street. A glass wall shows the Back Bay Logan Express bus passing by. Inside, there is a staircase with blue tiling that leads down to the train platforms. Commuters are walking up the stairs, through the station, and sitting down.

Transit

Construction Is Underway On Back Bay Station Makeover

A large snowbank blocks the edge of a roadway on a street corner at night. A red line through the middle of the snowbank indicates the approximate location of a buried curb line. To the left, a pedestrian in a crosswalk approaches the snowbank.

Traffic Calming

Eyes On the Street: Sneckdown City

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.

Boston