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Report: Higher Gas Tax, Like Higher Transit Fares, Could Increase Inequality
While many sustainable transportation advocates champion higher gasoline taxes as a way to pay for transportation improvements, a new report from the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MassBudget) warns that higher gasoline taxes will exacerbate the state's growing income inequality – unless the state simultaneously passes other tax policies to benefit low-income families.
October 17, 2019
Awful Commutes Have Biotech Workers Seeking Greener Pastures
Highly-paid life sciences workers have a keen financial interest in not wasting their valuable time stuck in traffic.
September 25, 2019
LivableStreets Report: MBTA Bus Deficiencies Perpetuate Racial Inequality
A new report from the LivableStreets Alliance is drawing renewed attention to inequities in the region's bus network, which forces riders of color to lose significantly more time getting around the region than their white counterparts.
September 23, 2019
‘MOTHERLOAD’ Documentary Chronicles Parenting on Two Wheels
This Sunday at the Brattle Theater, Green Cambridge will host a screening and discussion of "MOTHERLOAD," a new documentary about bicycling, feminism, and parenting from California filmmaker Liz Canning.
September 11, 2019
Exhaust Pipes Are Making Heat Waves Much, Much Worse
The long-term climate impacts of the climate pollution from cars and trucks are well documented, but the daily short-term effects of the wasted heat energy radiating from engine blocks and exhaust pipes are making this summer's heat waves much more miserable for city-dwellers.
August 20, 2019
Addressing the Climate Emergency Could Deliver A Big Payday to Transit
At a public workshop in Chelsea Tuesday evening, Massachusetts officials said that they are committed to improving air quality and funding better transit options, particularly in low-income and racially diverse communities, while they design a new "cap and invest" program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.
August 15, 2019
Why Is the T Trying to Turn an East Boston Rail Corridor Into a Private Roadway?
Two former state Secretaries of Transportation are raising serious concerns over the MBTA's attempts to sell easement rights to private developers for the use of an abandoned mile-long rail corridor along the Chelsea Creek waterfront in East Boston.
July 16, 2019
Photos: ‘People-Protected’ Bike Lane on Fenway
A crowd of over 100 street safety advocates spent a pleasant morning in one of Boston's Olmsted parks (albeit one that's largely been paved over to give drivers more places to get stuck in traffic) as they created a "people-protected bike lane" on Fenway and Brookline Avenue during the morning rush hour.
July 11, 2019
Study: People of Color Suffer Higher Health Risks From Highway Pollution
Planning decisions that deliberately routed highways through communities of color like Boston's Chinatown have left those neighborhoods significantly more vulnerable to air pollution from tailpipes.
June 28, 2019
MIT Study: High Fares Limit Low-Income Households’ Mobility
A team of MIT researchers today announced the results of a study that concluded that a discounted transit fare for low-income households could offer significant benefits to those households without necessarily contributing to peak-hour crowding in the MBTA system.
June 10, 2019
