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City of Springfield Wins $15 Million to Improve Street Safety Citywide
"Safe Streets and Roads for All unlocks federal dollars to fund some of the most effective safety interventions on streets – small-scale investments deployed at scale – that were previously inaccessible to communities without strong local funding sources."
February 1, 2023
Gov. Baker, Rep. Neal Announce ‘A Path Forward’ for East-West Rail
“The governor has made a full commitment to east-west rail,” U.S. Rep. Richard Neal told reporters.
April 27, 2022
Mass. Clean Energy Center Awards $3 Million to New E-Bike Subsidy Programs
The funding will help lower-income families buy e-bikes in Worcester, Cape Cod, and the Pioneer Valley, and will also fund an 18-month cargo bike delivery pilot program that will serve the Allston neighborhood of Boston.
March 9, 2022
City of Springfield Proposes Road Diet, Traffic Calming for Deadly Downtown Block
State Street in Springfield ranks as one of the Commonwealth's deadliest streets, and it runs through the middle of the city's historically Black neighborhoods. A city proposal would introduce measures to calm traffic, but it's limited to just one block on the edge of the city's downtown.
January 19, 2022
Vigil for Crash Victims Amplifies Need for Safer Streets in Springfield
Sunday was the World Day of Remembrance, an annual memorial for the lives lost to traffic crashes.
November 22, 2021
Drivers Kill Two Pedestrians Within One Week on Springfield’s State Street
It was the third death caused by a motor vehicle driver on Springfield's State Street so far this year.
November 12, 2021
PVTA to Debut Northampton-Springfield Express Route With Electric Buses
The new Northampton-Holyoke-Springfield Express is expected to start running this July.
March 30, 2021
Could An Infrastructure Stimulus Fund High-Speed Rail for New England?
The North Atlantic Rail initiative is seeking a $105 billion investment for "a rail-enabled economic transformation strategy."
March 3, 2021
MassDOT Is Building a Complete Streets Corridor Through West Springfield and Agawam
The projects are noteworthy for their efforts to transform suburban multi-lane roadways into calmer, safer streets that might actually be welcoming to people traveling on foot and by bike.
February 8, 2021
Data Confirm That More Fatal Crashes Happen in Commonwealth’s Black Neighborhoods
Of the 210 fatal car crashes in Massachusetts where a driver killed a bike rider or pedestrian between 2018 and 2020, a quarter of those killings occurred in neighborhoods where the Black population makes up a higher-than-average proportion of the neighborhood population, according to a Streetsblog analysis of MassDOT fatal crash records.
January 12, 2021
