year in review
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Our Most-Read Stories of 2025
This year, StreetsblogMASS attained a notable milestone: since January, readers have visited our homepage and article webpages over one million times – a 15 percent increase over last year's website traffic.
December 29, 2025
Our Most-Read Stories of 2024
Our annual roundup of the year's biggest stories on StreetsblogMASS doesn't include some of the biggest transportation news stories of the year – like the remarkable comeback that the MBTA made by repairing hundreds of slow zones, or how free and reduced fares spread across the state.
December 26, 2024
Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2023
2023 might have been the year that the MBTA hit rock-bottom, but according to our website analytics, our readers are still excited about the possibility of a better future.
December 29, 2023
New Trails We Can Look Forward to In 2024
In the past year, MassDOT and municipalities across the Commonwealth cut ribbons on over a dozen multi-use pathway projects, opening up roughly 20 miles' worth of new bike and pedestrian infrastructure.
December 26, 2023
Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2022
Our ten most-read stories of 2022 weren't necessarily the biggest transportation news stories in Massachusetts this year (those would probably be either the T's unprecedented Orange Line shutdown or the agency's safety management crisis), but they were the stories that managed to capture readers' attention beyond the borders of the Commonwealth.
December 27, 2022
The StreetsblogMASS 2021 Year In Review
From free buses to safer streets, we covered a lot of big transportation news in 2021.
December 29, 2021
Our 10 Most-Read Stories of 2021
StreetsblogMASS launched in the summer of 2019, and in the two-and-a-half years since then, our audience has grown almost four-fold.
December 29, 2021
2020 In Review: The Year’s Top 10 Stories
Thanks for reading StreetsblogMASS this year – we'll be back in 2021.
December 30, 2020
Our Top 10 Stories of 2019
Several of our top stories from 2019 cover key debates – some of which have come to positive resolutions, some of which remain undecided – that illustrate how successful advocates can be when we come together and demand better from our political leadership.
December 27, 2019