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Hundreds of Mourners Fill City Hall Plaza to Honor Louisa Gag and Demand Safer Streets
"She was killed on our streets.... We owe Louisa more than our grief. We owe her our action. We have to do better," Mayor Michelle Wu told the crowd of mourners.
July 16, 2026
Louisa Gag, Longtime Street Safety Advocate, Identified as Thursday’s Homicide Crash Victim
Family members have identified the victim of Thursday morning's homicide crash near Roxbury Crossing as Louisa Gag, a longtime street safety advocate and transportation planner at Boston's City Hall.
July 10, 2026
It’s Not Nothing: LivableStreets Report Assesses Progress In Three Cities After A Decade of ‘Vision Zero’
The report singles out the City of Somerville, where there have been no fatal crashes since 2022, as a success story with policies worth emulating.
June 26, 2026
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
Advocates Set An Agenda For Salvaging the T’s Troubled Buses
One of the report’s key arguments – and the reason for its title – is that the region’s current bus fleet is actually smaller than it was in the early 1970s, even though the region has added 1.7 million new residents since then.
January 25, 2023
How have pandemic bus lanes worked out in Chicago, Boston, and SF?
Boston and its surrounding suburbs have added 14 miles of bus lanes during the pandemic.
December 4, 2020
Rep. Pressley Announces New ‘Future of Transportation’ Congressional Caucus
Pressley says that the current system for spending federal money on transit is "antiquated and contributing to the inequities and disparities when it comes to access to affordable, reliable, and rapid transit."
October 17, 2019
