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Christian MilNeil

Construction workers place granite curbs into a roadway next to a row of orange construction barrels.

Lynnway Northern Strand Extension construction 2024

Trails

MassDOT Is Filling Gaps In the Border to Boston Trail

A bike path runs alongside a narrow paved roadway. A green sign reads "BIKE ROUTE: Groveland Com. Trail" and beyond is a stop ahead sign.

Groveland Community Trail

New Trails We Can Look Forward To In 2025

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Vision Zero

City of Lynn Wins $9.5 Million Grant For Traffic-Calming Safety Improvements

A person on a bike rides along a single-track dirt path through some mown grass through a forest. The trail runs between two rows of utility poles and wires that stretch towards a substation on the horizon.

Boxford Border to Boston Rail Trail

Travel guides

Travel Guide: Biking From the Border to Boston

RenderingMarketStAtAndrew

MassDOT Officially Breaks Ground On Northern Strand Extension Through Downtown Lynn

Commuter Rail platform featuring a gray shade canopy under which a couple can be seen walking together, a woman pushes a stroller and others further down sit or stand as they wait for the train.

Lynn Commuter Rail station rendering

MBTA

MBTA Rail Service Will Return to Downtown Lynn in December

A ferry attendant waits for a bicyclist to wheel his bike onboard at Lewis Wharf in East Boston. The downtown Boston skyline is visible in the background beyond Boston Harbor.

lewis mall, east boston ferry

Transit

Risk of Driver Inconvenience Throws MassDOT Into the Warm Embrace of Fare-Free Transit

A graded gravel path under construction runs underneath a highway bridge next to a concrete bridge abutment. To the right of the abutment and below the trail are some railroad tracks.

Northern Strand RevereBeach Parkway credit Bike to the Sea

Bicycling

The Northern Strand Trail Is Growing In Lynn and Everett

<p>Sam Mintz is currently the editor of <a href="https://brookline.news/">Brookline.News</a>, a nonprofit news website covering the Town of Brookline. Before moving back to the Boston area in 2021, Sam spent five years in D.C. covering Congress and federal agencies for Politico and E&amp;E News.</p>


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Sam Mintz

Group of people walking toward the train doors on the North Station platform,

North Station, Commuter Rail, October 2022

Could the New Governor Breathe New Life Into the T’s Regional Rail Plans?

Grecia White

rendering of Lynn Commuter Rail station

Accessibility

La Estación de Commuter Rail en Lynn Cierra Tras Proyecto de Reconstruction

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