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Franklin-Hodge Stepping Down As Boston’s Chief of Streets
Boston Transportation Department Commissioner Nick Gove will take over as Interim Chief of Streets at the end of this month.
November 10, 2025
Guest Column: Lethal Hyde Park Avenue Needs Changes, Not More Meetings
Editor’s note: Advocates for safer streets in the Boston neighborhood of Hyde Park delivered the following letter to Boston City Hall on Friday. In addition to the 7 co-authors in the byline, 709 Boston residents added their names to the letter, and hundreds of them offered their own personalized notes about safety hazards they’d experienced on Hyde Park Avenue. StreetsblogMASS is republishing the letter with the authors’ permission.
January 24, 2025
Boston Officials Will Adjust Traffic Signals At Fatal Crash Scene In Forest Hills
The city's Chief of Streets promises "improving safety is non-negotiable" as the city plans for a more robust redesign of Hyde Park Avenue.
October 25, 2024
The Slow Bus To Southie: Boston Will Abandon Frequently-Blocked Seaport Bus Lane
The City of Boston will remove a shared bus-and-trucking lane through the Seaport neighborhood after acknowledging that the design, which was frequently blocked by cars, failed to deliver measurable benefits to bus riders.
September 17, 2024
Halfway to 2030, How’s ‘Go Boston’ Going?
A progress report from the LivableStreets Alliance finds that the City of Boston deserves credit for making streets safer, but also warns that there's been essentially no progress in the past two decades in cutting the 1.9 million metric tons of climate pollution that the city's motor vehicles emit on an annual basis.
October 12, 2023
Boston’s New Huntington Ave. Bus Lanes Are Saving T Riders 25 Hours Every Workday
Last year's month-long shutdown of the entire Orange Line has famously failed to deliver then-Governor Charlie Baker's promise of "far better service and a more modern infrastructure for its riders."
September 25, 2023
Mayor Wu Won’t Wait: City Will Implement Centre Street Safety Improvements This Fall
The City of Boston will reconfigure Centre Street in West Roxbury from a 4-lane configuration to a safer 3-lane cross section with protected bike lanes later this fall.
June 2, 2023
Meet the New Chief: StreetsblogMASS Interviews Jascha Franklin-Hodge
"There’s a lot of traffic engineering that’s very data-driven, but it’s often data-driven in ways that are focused on vehicular movements and speeds and capacity... And sometimes that comes at the expense of asking, ‘What’s it like for a person who’s walking to the bus, and waiting on the corner for that bus?’ We don’t have metrics for that."
December 22, 2021
Mayor Wu Appoints GovTech Expert Jascha Franklin-Hodge As Boston’s New Chief of Streets
“Under Mayor Wu’s leadership, we have the opportunity to reshape our transportation system to make getting around Boston more convenient, address historic and ongoing inequities, and improve safety, especially for our most vulnerable road users,” said Franklin-Hodge.
December 7, 2021
