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Christian MilNeil

A freshly-paved city street lined with commercial buildings against the sidewalk. In the center of the image, a freshly-paved sidewalk-level bike lane is blocked by a utility pole.

Needham St northbound near Rockland St

Protected bike lanes

Utility Poles Limit the Utility of Newton’s New ‘Complete Street’

An MBTA commuter rail train with a purple front and a T logo on its side approaches an under-construction station platform in the center of the image. In the right foreground are two other railroad tracks. To the left behind the platform are two domed spires rising above a train station building.

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MBTA

Worcester Line Trains Will Get Shorter – But Also More Frequent

Signs alongside a roadway read "Hammond Pond Parkway – Massachusetts Dept. of Conservation and Recreation" and "Hammond Pond Parkway Improvement Contract No. P23-3501-C3A Newton MA" next to some orange construction cones and freshly-laid asphalt and stacks of granite curbing.

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Eyes On the Street: State Conservation Agency Converts Asphalt to Parkland In Newton

A rendering of a new MBTA station at Newtonville, with pedestrians and people on bikes waiting on a wide sidewalk outside a glass-and-steel structure

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Healey Administration, MBTA Announce Funding for Upgraded Newtonville Regional Rail Station

A diversion diagram for the Green Line B branch, illustrated as a horizontal line, with Boston College on the left and Kenmore to the right, with an arrow pointing further right labelled "Park St & north". A black dotted line connects stations between Boston College and Babcock St., representing suspended streetcar service. A solid green line, representing active service, connects Babcock St. to Kenmore to the right. Red octagons with white Xs mark the Allston St., Griggs St. and Packards Corner stations where there will be no shuttle service.

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T Suspends B Branch Service Along Commonwealth Ave. ‘Til August 11

Aaron Lu

A freshly-paved two-lane road is lined with orange construction barrels stretching into the distance. The road is surrounded by trees just beginning to grow their leaves. A wide dirt track runs along the right edge of the pavement.

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Highways

Eyes On the Street: Less Pavement, More Park On Hammond Pond Parkway

A rendering of a street with three moving vehicle lanes in the middle, a parking lane on the left curb, and a two-way bike path along the right curb. In the middle distance is a crosswalk and a white-and-yellow MBTA bus is approaching in the opposite lane.

Newton Washington Street Rendering Concept 3

Street Design

City of Newton Plans Protected Bike Lanes, Road Diet For Washington Street

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DCR Breaks Ground On Major Road Diet in Newton

A two-lane city street lined with buildings and a handful of trees. The street is relatively narrow with two lanes for moving vehicles and two on-street parking lanes.

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Crashes

UPS Truck Driver Strikes and Kills Tufts University Professor in Newton

A Black man wearing shorts and a t-shirt rides a chopper bicycle past a mural with flowers that says "Black Lives Matter"

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Bicycling

Worcester Film Screening to Discuss the Realities of ‘Biking While Black’

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