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Highways

Safety Advocates Set Their Sights On Medford’s Mystic Mess

Grecia White

A large crowd of people celebrate the Green Line extension's opening day outside a snowy Ball Square station while some kids play on a snowy hillside next to the station entrance.

MBTA

Opening Day: The Green Line Arrives In Medford

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Christian MilNeil

A Green Line train bearing the destination sign for "Union Square" arrives at Lechmere station in Cambridge.

MBTA Board Updates: Green Line to Medford Will Open Dec. 12

A small crowd gathers under a Bluebikes-branded pop-up tent next to some Bluebikes resting on their kickstands. In the foreground, a man in a suit, ballcap, and bicycle-print tie and woman in a leapord-print jacket hold comically oversized shears as they cut a ribbon while the others look on.

Bikesharing

Bluebikes Expands to Downtown Medford and Malden

Dept. of Conservation and Recreation Chief Engineer Jeff Parenti leans into a metal traffic signal cabinet on Broadway in Arlington to adjust the traffic signal timing of the pedestrian crosswalk while Somerville Director Transportation & Infrastructure Brad Rawson watches over his shoulder.

On Alewife Brook Parkway, Organizing (and Adjusting Traffic Signals) for a Slower, Safer Street

A person rides a bike along the Minuteman path in East Arlington.

Bicycling

Arlington Makes Plans to Connect Minuteman, Mystic River Paths

Street Design

MassDOT Shares Early Concepts for Taming Wellington Circle

Accessibility

What Do We Do About Wellington?

MBTA Puts New Green Line Stations On the Map

Domino Frame in Tension, by Nadir Tehrani

New Green Line Stops Bring New Public Art to Medford, Somerville, and Cambridge

Medford