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An empty commuter rail platform with a shade canopy overhead. A sign under the canopy reads "NEW BEDFORD" in white text on a purple background. To the right are four sets of railroad tracks leading into the distance.

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MBTA

First Week of South Coast Rail Service Will Be Fare-Free

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Thursday’s Headlines Won’t Pay For Themselves

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Youth Bike Summit 2024

Events

Registration Opens for Youth Bike Summit in Roxbury

A cropped detail view of the MBTA commuter rail map diagram highlighting the new South Coast Rail lines to Fall River (lower left) and New Bedford (lower center), with new stations in Middleborough, E. Taunton, Church St., and Freetown. The line continues on existing rails to Brockton (upper edge).

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MBTA Releases Official Timetable for South Coast Rail Service

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Environment

EPA Will Finance 177 New Electric Buses for Mass. School Districts

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Longtime TransitMatters Leader Announces Departure

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Transportation for Massachusetts Launching Webinar On Transportation Policy

A satellite-view map of detours on Broadway in Cambridge between Galileo Galilei Way (at the left edge) and Ames Street (at the right edge). A hashed "work zone" is shaded in along the north side of the block in the upper half of the aerial view. A right arrow indicates one-way motor vehicle traffic in the middle of Broadway; below that, another two-way arrow indicates two-way bike traffic on a separated path along the southern edge of the roadway; below that, a dashed line indicates a pedestrian detour route along the southern sidewalk.

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Detours Take Effect for Broadway in Kendall Square, Part of Region’s Busiest Bike Route

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Wu Admin Expands Open Newbury Events Into December

A map of the Northampton Bikeway in the northwest of the City of Northampton, along with a parallel detour route along N. Main and Main Street in the west, near the village of Florence; Locust Street in the center, and Prospect St. in the east, near downtown Northampton (which is in the lower right corner of the map)

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Northampton Bikeway to Close This November For Repair Work

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