Boston
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The Politically-Driven, Koch-Backed Campaign to Undermine Boston Transit
Boston's MBTA has been having a tough year.
August 20, 2015
Boston Says So Long to the Casey Overpass, a 1950s Highway Relic
This month, Boston is demolishing a monument to 1950s-era car infrastructure: The Casey Overpass, a short elevated road built in 1955 to whisk drivers over the Forest Hills MBTA station in Jamaica Plain without encountering any pesky things like intersections or pedestrians.
May 20, 2015
Boston Cyclists Excavate Massive Snow Tunnel To Restore Bike Path
For every pedestrian and cyclist who's had your journey interrupted by an impassable mound of snow, we bring you this story from Boston. Earlier this month, Beantown resident Ari Goldberger found his journey to the Wellington Station T stop impeded by a "15-foot mountain of snow."
February 23, 2015
Despite Problems, Boston’s MBTA Should Continue to Expand
Cross posted from the Frontier Group.
February 12, 2015
Boosting Transit Ridership With New Stations, Not New Track
Yonah Freemark at the Transport Politic calls them infill stations: new transit stops built in gaps along existing rail lines. Current examples include Assembly Station just outside Boston in Somerville, DC’s NoMa Station, and the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station.
August 28, 2014
Why the Senate Transportation Bill Will Devastate Transit
Transit officials lined up today to make clear that holding transit spending at current levels -- as the Senate’s transportation authorization bill does -- will put transit systems at risk of falling further into dangerous disrepair.
May 22, 2014
Anthony Foxx Kicks Off Nationwide Project for Better Bike Lanes
Staring down a highway trust fund that he described as "teetering toward insolvency" by August or September, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Monday that better bike infrastructure projects are part of the solution.
April 29, 2014
Boston Doctors Now Prescribing Bike-Share Memberships
The newest tool for doctors in the fight against obesity? That's right: Bike-share.
March 28, 2014
Green Lane Project Picks Six New Cities to Make Big Progress on Bikeways
More than 100 cities applied for the second round of the Green Lane Project, the program that helps cities build better bike infrastructure, including protected lanes.
March 10, 2014
Massachusetts Official: Boston’s Winter Cyclists “Living in the Wrong City”
Bostonians making polite requests for a clear path on one of the city's key bike routes were met with disdain from the state agency responsible for maintaining the paths.
February 19, 2014