MassGeneral Expansion Plans Include Space for New Blue Line Station
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The MBTA is also budgeting $15 million for "planning funds to extend the Blue Line to Charles/MGH."
SUV and Pickup Purchases Soar — But Who’s Buying?
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Americans set a new record last month for SUV and pickup truck sales. Who's buying all these giant cars?
Logan Airport Invites Travelers to Honor Earth Day By Incinerating Gasoline
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The airport argues that driving to the airport and paying for their on-site parking is "good" for the environment because it's only half as bad as driving there twice for a pickup and drop-off.
Trot, Trot to Boston With New Bus and Bike Lanes in Lynn
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The quick-build project helps connect the newly-extended Northern Strand Trail to the city’s downtown district.
Malden City Council Endorses More Bus, Bike Lanes for City Center
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The current Centre Street is a four- to five-lane street built in the late 1970s, shortly after the city's new Orange Line station opened, over the buried headwaters of the Malden River.
Talking Headways Podcast: Call it the Manual Undermining Terrific Community Design (MUTCD)
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We have met the enemy and it is the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
Boston Aims to Launch E-Cargo Bike Delivery Pilot in 2022
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The city wants to change its financial and political incentives to encourage more bike deliveries.
D.C. Cyclist Jim Pagels Killed by Driver Hours After Tweeting About Unsafe Roads
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Grieving friends of a D.C. cyclist who was killed by a driver are fighting for his death to become a catalyst for safe street reforms in the capital and nationwide — just like he would have wanted.
MBTA Board Updates: New Subway Cars Sidelined ‘Til May
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New Orange and Red Line trains “will remain out of service for at least another 3 weeks,” according to the MBTA’s Deputy General Manager Jeff Gonneville. The revelation came during Monday’s meeting of the Fiscal and Management Control Board. Gonneville told board members that the T is continuing to investigate a March 16 incident in […]
Good Transit Is Pointless When People Can’t Live Near It
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A good Oregon bill would hold high-capacity transit lines to a very basic standard.
MBTA Puts New Green Line Stations On the Map
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The Union Square branch (along with the new Lechmere station and rehabilitated Lechmere viaduct) is expected to open in October, while the longer Medford branch is expected to start taking riders in December.
Protecting Non-Motorists Makes NTSB ‘Most Wanted List’ For the First Time
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For the first time in its 54 year history, the transportation sector's most influential investigative agency wants America to focus on protecting vulnerable road users. What took so long?