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Street Design Wu Won’t Fix Hyde Park Ave. Safety Hazards in Upcoming Paving Project "It’s been proven that that area is deadly for pedestrians, and a mess for people in cars too, so let’s fix it up,” ...
At its meeting on Tuesday, the MBTA's Board of Directors quietly authorized the purchase of a 21-acre industrial property at 440 Riverside Avenue in Medford to develop a new bus maintenance garage ...
On Martha’s Vineyard, MassDOT is collaborating with the Town of Tisbury to address safety problems as well as increasing flood risks from sea level rise around Beach Road and the Five Corners ...
On Monday afternoon, elected officials and accessibility advocates convened in Natick to celebrate the grand opening of the new, fully-accessible Natick Center station on the Framingham-Worcester Line ...
Governor Healey is proposing legislation that would transfer several large, albeit heavily-paved parks from the state's conservation agency to MassDOT. The language is embedded in the Governor's ...
I try to live my life in part by the novelty effect, or how making new memories can slow down time (or at least your perception of it) because you’re not in the same routines that blur the days ...
A new link in the network of Mystic River waterfront greenways recently opened in the City of Medford, connecting Medford Square to Riverbend Park to complete a continuous off-street biking and ...
Environment MIT Research Finds Increasing Heat Makes Cities Measurably Less Walkable An analysis of thousands of summertime walking trips through Boston finds that, on average, a 1 degree increase in ...
An e-bike operator crashed into a pedestrian and inflicted serious injuries near Copley Square on Wednesday afternoon. According to an incident report that Boston Police provided to StreetsblogMASS, ...
On Monday, federal officials announced the first major committment of federal funding for the Allston Multimodal Project, a massive realignment of Interstate 90 in Boston’s Allston neighborhood. “I am ...
In addition to hundreds of crashes that ended peoples' lives, MassDOT's crash database also records 2,361 crashes that caused serious injuries, plus 16,307 crashes that caused less serious injuries to ...
MassDOT will re-stripe lanes and add flexible-post bollards to make the changes permanent later this fall.