Christian MilNeil
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A Large Town Answer to COVID-19 Mobility
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Somerville, Mass. will provide safer walking and biking routes with more room for physical distancing.
STREETSBLOG MASS ‘Essential’ Work Demands Put Areas of Color at Risk
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While much of the nation is staying at home to minimize the risks of COVID-19 transmission, the essential workers who continue to deliver our basic needs are still commuting to their jobs. That puts them at risk.
Mixed Signals: ‘Beg Buttons’ and the Pandemic
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Across the country, engineers are acknowledging the uselessness of push-to-walk buttons at crosswalks — and some are even reprogramming traffic lights to make walk signals automatic for the duration of the outbreak." […]
Car Pollution Makes COVID-19 Health Outcomes Worse
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A new nationwide study from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that people living in neighborhoods with higher levels of fine particulate air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 infection than patients from areas with cleaner air. That’s especially concerning for many of communities of color in Massachusetts, where the legacies […]
Feds Send $1B to Mass. Transit Agencies
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Massachusetts transit agencies will get just over $1 billion in emergency funding to help sustain service through the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The funding comes from a $25 billion line-item for transit assistance in the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act,” the bill that quickly moved through Congress […]
Congress Urged to Save Transit During Crisis
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A $1 trillion draft economic stabilization plan from the U.S. Senate provides no financial assistance for the nation’s transit agencies, which have been bleeding red ink as the COVID-19 pandemic slashes fare collections and revenues from state sales and payroll taxes. Large transit agencies, whose budgets are generally more reliant on fare revenue, have taken […]
Crisis Stretches Small Transit Providers Thinner
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The coronavirus outbreak is a disaster for big systems — but it might be even worse for the little guys.
We Can Have Public Process Without Public Meetings
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As cities and towns across Massachusetts embrace increasingly strict social distancing measures, hundreds of public meetings across the state are being cancelled.
Pols Seek Higher Corporate, Gas Taxes for Transit
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It's not yet clear whether the House bill will provide a sufficient amount of funding to meet the MBTA's needs for additional staff and new capital projects.
Fees On Rideshare Help Fund Boston Sidewalks
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Fees on Silicon Valley's double-parking, bike lane-blocking drivers are already funding important "complete streets" projects throughout the Boston region.
STREETSBLOG MASS Brookline to Boost Transit Over Inefficient Cars
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Brookline's town meeting this month voted to set ambitious benchmarks for moving more people by sustainable modes of transport by 2030.
MassDOT Wants A Highway Over the Charles River?
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The MassDOT is making plans to install a four-lane, 2,000-foot-long highway above the Charles River for the duration of a construction project that is anticipated to last a decade. As the state highway agency prepares to file for permits for its “Allston Multimodal Project,” state officials are honing conceptual construction staging plans for the project’s […]