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@Boston.gov City Council Hosts Hearing Today On City’s Dated Parking Rules - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/08/b...
Boston City Council Hosts Hearing Tuesday On City's Dated Parking Rules - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The Boston City Council’s Committee on Planning, Development, and Transportation will hold a public hearing on Tuesday afternoon “to explore amending the Boston Zoning Code to remove parking minimum r...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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@boston.gov City Council Hosts Hearing Tuesday On City’s Dated Parking Rules - #mapoli
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Boston City Council Hosts Hearing Tuesday On City's Dated Parking Rules - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The Boston City Council’s Committee on Planning, Development, and Transportation will hold a public hearing on Tuesday afternoon “to explore amending the Boston Zoning Code to remove parking minimum r...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@boston.gov City Council Hosts Hearing Tuesday On City’s Dated Parking Rules - #mapoli
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2 Week Green Line Closure Begins Today - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/03/g...
Grinch Line: 2 Week Green Line Closure Begins Today - Streetsblog Massachusetts
From December 8 through December 22, the MBTA will suspend all Green Line service between North Station and Kenmore Square.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
2 Week Green Line Closure Begins Today - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/03/g...
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (@pressley.house.gov) Lobbies for Stronger Transit Funding, Fare-Free Programs In Next Federal Transportation Bill -
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Rep. Pressley Lobbies for Stronger Transit Funding, Fare-Free Programs In Next Federal Transportation Bill - Streetsblog Massachusetts
"We urge you to invest in public transit as a public good," writes Rep. Pressley to her colleagues in Congress.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (@pressley.house.gov) Lobbies for Stronger Transit Funding, Fare-Free Programs In Next Federal Transportation Bill -
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Congestion pricing in NYC has worked and has become popular. Cities like Boston should follow.
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Three takeaways for Boston from NYC’s congestion pricing scheme - The Boston Globe
After a year of the first American program of its kind, there’s enough data to recommend the idea.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Congestion pricing in NYC has worked and has become popular. Cities like Boston should follow.
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Boston Data Show Streets With New Bike Lanes Successfully Shift Traffic, With Fewer Cars and Way More Bikes - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/05/b...
Boston Data Show Streets With New Bike Lanes Successfully Shift Traffic From Cars to Bikes - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Mayor Wu has hard evidence that her bike lane projects are helping reduce traffic – but her administration is reluctant to share it.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Boston Data Show Streets With New Bike Lanes Successfully Shift Traffic, With Fewer Cars and Way More Bikes - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/05/b...
Courtesy of our colleagues at @brooklinenews.bsky.social:
Family Sues State Police Over Death of ‘Matriarch’ Killed In Brookline Crosswalk
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Family Sues State Police Over Death of ‘Matriarch’ Killed In Brookline Crosswalk
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Family Sues State Police Over Death of ‘Matriarch’ Killed In Brookline Crosswalk - Streetsblog Massachusetts
A Mass. State Police trooper drove into Margie Mendez, 86, in a crosswalk on Route 9 earlier this year.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Courtesy of our colleagues at @brooklinenews.bsky.social:
Family Sues State Police Over Death of ‘Matriarch’ Killed In Brookline Crosswalk
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Family Sues State Police Over Death of ‘Matriarch’ Killed In Brookline Crosswalk
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Driver Kills Rockport Man In Downtown Gloucester - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/03/d...
Driver Kills Rockport Man In Downtown Gloucester - Streetsblog Massachusetts
According to the Essex County District Attorney's office, the killing occurred in the dark shortly after 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning near the intersection of Rogers Street and Manuel F. Lewis Street.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Grinch Line: @mbta.com Will Close the Core of the Green Line For the Holiday Season - The closure is expected to affect most of the Green Line's 50,000 daily riders:
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Grinch Line: MBTA Will Close the Core of the Green Line For the Holiday Season - Streetsblog Massachusetts
From December 8 through December 22, the MBTA will suspend all Green Line service between North Station and Kenmore Square.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Grinch Line: @mbta.com Will Close the Core of the Green Line For the Holiday Season - The closure is expected to affect most of the Green Line's 50,000 daily riders:
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The @mbta.com is running hundreds of additional subway trips every day thanks to new trains and the elimination of dozens of slow zones.
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MBTA Adds More Bus, Subway Service With Winter Schedule Updates - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The MBTA’s winter schedule updates will deliver a 3 percent increase in bus service and shorter waits between trains on three subway lines starting on Sunday, December 14th. The T typically adjusts it...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The @mbta.com is running hundreds of additional subway trips every day thanks to new trains and the elimination of dozens of slow zones.
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Driver Kills 68-Year-Old Victim Who Was Walking Near Haverhill Highway Interchange - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/01/d...
Driver Kills 68-Year-Old Victim Who Was Walking Near Haverhill Highway Interchange - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Last Tuesday evening, a driver struck and killed Richard Cripps, a 68-year-old Haverhill resident, while he was walking on River Street near the Interstate 495 interchange in Haverhill. According to p...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Driver Kills 68-Year-Old Victim Who Was Walking Near Haverhill Highway Interchange - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/01/d...
Trump’s U.S. DOT Is Rolling Back Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/01/t...
Trump's U.S. DOT Is Rolling Back Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public - Streetsblog Massachusetts
In Trump’s second term, the agency opened 50 percent fewer investigations into vehicle safety defects, concluded 83 percent fewer enforcement cases against trucking and bus companies and started 58 pe...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Trump’s U.S. DOT Is Rolling Back Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/01/t...
Eyes on the Street: The Fall of a Freeway in Fall River -
Tearing down a blighted @massdot.bsky.social expressway opens up 19 acres of land for new housing next to Fall River's @mbta.com station:
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Tearing down a blighted @massdot.bsky.social expressway opens up 19 acres of land for new housing next to Fall River's @mbta.com station:
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Eyes on the Street: The Fall of a Freeway in Fall River - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The demolition of MassDOT's blighted Route 79 expressway opens up 19 acres of land for new housing next to Fall River's MBTA station.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Eyes on the Street: The Fall of a Freeway in Fall River -
Tearing down a blighted @massdot.bsky.social expressway opens up 19 acres of land for new housing next to Fall River's @mbta.com station:
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Tearing down a blighted @massdot.bsky.social expressway opens up 19 acres of land for new housing next to Fall River's @mbta.com station:
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Boston's new Interim Chief of Streets, Nick Gove, started his new job today, taking over the office from former Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge:
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Franklin-Hodge Stepping Down As Boston's Chief of Streets - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Boston Transportation Department Commissioner Nick Gove will take over as Interim Chief of Streets at the end of this month.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Boston's new Interim Chief of Streets, Nick Gove, started his new job today, taking over the office from former Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge:
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Massachusetts Transit Agencies Win $106 Million to Buy New Buses Statewide - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/24/m...
Massachusetts Transit Agencies Win $106 Million to Buy New Buses Statewide - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Late last week, the Trump administration pledged $106 million in grants to five regional transit authorities (RTA) and the MBTA to help finance new buses and bus facilities across Massachusetts. The f...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Massachusetts Transit Agencies Win $106 Million to Buy New Buses Statewide - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/24/m...
MeVa's New Electric Ferries Could Set Sail On the Merrimack River Next Summer - by @meghanvolcy.bsky.social mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/21/m...
MeVa's New Electric Ferries Could Set Sail On the Merrimack River Next Summer - Streetsblog Massachusetts
On the Merrimack River, ferries are returning to the scene. Merrimack Valley Transit (MeVa) will be implementing solar-powered ferry service connecting Haverhill, Amesbury, and Newburyport in 2026. Ba...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
MeVa's New Electric Ferries Could Set Sail On the Merrimack River Next Summer - by @meghanvolcy.bsky.social mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/21/m...
For an indication of how choreographed @massdot.bsky.social and @mbta.com board meetings are, here's Phil Eng, running his first meeting as MassDOT Secretary, while a staffer off-camera tells him to read from "page four of your script, Secretary."
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
For an indication of how choreographed @massdot.bsky.social and @mbta.com board meetings are, here's Phil Eng, running his first meeting as MassDOT Secretary, while a staffer off-camera tells him to read from "page four of your script, Secretary."
Driver Kills Man On Bike in Framingham - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/20/d...
Driver Kills Man On Bike in Framingham - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The Middlesex District Attorney’s office is pressing charges against a driver who is suspected of killing a man who was riding his bike at the intersection of Concord Street and Gorman Road Wednesday ...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Driver Kills Man On Bike in Framingham - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/20/d...
Worsening traffic congestion and the removal of critical bus lanes means that @mbta.com bus trips on Boston's highest-ridership routes take, on average, 15 percent longer than they did when @mayorwu.boston.gov took office 4 years ago.
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Paying With Their Time: Increasing Traffic Congestion Erodes Benefits of Boston's Fare-Free Buses - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Mayor Wu's press office avoided several inquiries from StreetsblogMASS to discuss the worsening delays in MBTA bus service over the course of her first term.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Worsening traffic congestion and the removal of critical bus lanes means that @mbta.com bus trips on Boston's highest-ridership routes take, on average, 15 percent longer than they did when @mayorwu.boston.gov took office 4 years ago.
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Paying With Their Time: Increasing Traffic Congestion Erodes Benefits of Boston’s Fare-Free @mbta.com Buses - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/19/p...
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Paying With Their Time: Increasing Traffic Congestion Erodes Benefits of Boston’s Fare-Free @mbta.com Buses - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/19/p...
President Trump's transportation funding proposal could blow a $30 billion hole in the budgets of transit agencies across America: usa.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/b...
Breaking: Trump Admin Seeks To Decimate Federal Transit Funding — Streetsblog USA
"When you're talking about taking away money from transit, your proposal is flawed from the get-go," said one expert.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
President Trump's transportation funding proposal could blow a $30 billion hole in the budgets of transit agencies across America: usa.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/b...
Conceding to Trump, State House Democrats Fast-Track Legislation to Repeal Massachusetts #Climate Laws -
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Conceding to Trump, State House Democrats Fast-Track Legislation to Repeal State Climate Laws - Streetsblog Massachusetts
House Democrats are poised to embrace the Trump administration's energy policies by repealing key science-based provisions in the state's climate laws.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Conceding to Trump, State House Democrats Fast-Track Legislation to Repeal Massachusetts #Climate Laws -
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Sunday is the World Day of Remembrance - Find events across Massachusetts here: mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/15/s...
Sunday Is the World Day of Remembrance - Streetsblog Massachusetts
This weekend, communities all over Massachusetts are hosting events to honor this year’s World Day of Remembrance for victims of traffic crashes. The World Day of Remembrance is an international day ...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Today's @xkcd.com
[image title tag: 'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.']
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[image title tag: 'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.']
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November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Today's @xkcd.com
[image title tag: 'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.']
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[image title tag: 'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.']
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Featured comment on our Arborway story (linked below)
"If an airport had a poor safety record and they refused to take corrective action in a timely manner would we continue to let them operate?"
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"If an airport had a poor safety record and they refused to take corrective action in a timely manner would we continue to let them operate?"
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Featured comment on our Arborway story (linked below)
"If an airport had a poor safety record and they refused to take corrective action in a timely manner would we continue to let them operate?"
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"If an airport had a poor safety record and they refused to take corrective action in a timely manner would we continue to let them operate?"
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