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ValleyBike System Wins $1 Million Clean Transportation Grant
The state's second-biggest bikesharing system is planning to add 6-8 new stations, including an expansion into the City of Westfield.
April 10, 2025
New Year, No Fares: Beacon Hill Bankrolls Dozens of Free Bus Routes Statewide
The state budget that lawmakers passed last summer is bankrolling a major expansion in popular fare-free bus routes across the entire Commonwealth this winter.
January 5, 2024
ValleyBike Bikesharing System Still In Limbo As Municipalities Seek New Operator
ValleyBike, the municipally-owned bikesharing system for the Connecticut River Valley, remains in a financially-induced coma after the firm that operated the system went bankrupt earlier this year.
November 29, 2023
WalkBoston Analysis Finds Traffic Violence Is Overwhelmingly Concentrated in Lower-Income, Non-White Neighborhoods
"This skewed spatial distribution of fatal pedestrian crashes in Massachusetts demonstrates that (environmental justice) communities face disproportionate harm in large part because of historic and present-day injustices in transportation planning," says WalkBoston.
April 3, 2023
In Chicopee, Drivers Have Killed 8 People Since September
Even in the context of record-setting bloodshed on Massachusetts roadways last year, Chicopee has seen an unusually high rate of violence from drivers.
January 25, 2023
New Trails We Can Look Forward to in Eastern Mass. in 2022
From the Berkshires to Boston, construction crews are putting the finishing touches on a dozen new off-street biking and walking paths that are expected to open to traffic in 2022.
February 7, 2022
ValleyBike Demonstrates Viability of Bike Sharing In Smaller Cities
Pedal-assist electric bicycles help users cover longer distances in a more rural part of the state.
December 9, 2019