Christian MilNeil
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Free Passes For Boston’s Main Street Workers Boost Transit, Bluebikes Ridership
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Workers who got a $60 CharlieCard rode transit an average of 8.3 times during the first four weeks of the program, while workers with a smaller $5 CharlieCard took only 2 transit trips in the same period.
Eyes On the Street: A Quick Ride on Boston’s New Transitway
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Boston’s new center-running bus lanes are open for business in Roxbury, and they’re already delivering major benefits to pedestrian and transit riders along Columbus Avenue between Franklin Park and the Jackson Square Orange Line stop. StreetsblogMASS visited the new bus lanes on Wednesday morning to try them out. The 0.7 mile ride went by remarkably […]
Research Suggests Boston’s New Protected Lanes Boosted Bikeshare Traffic 80 Percent
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Bikeshare traffic across the Allston and Fenway neighborhoods more than doubled after a city project added protected bike lanes on Commonwealth Avenue. Furthermore, the fastest growth involved trips that would have been likely to use the newly-built protected bike lanes.
Report: Workplace Parking Subsidies Could Drive A Return to Gridlock
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Boston-based A Better City, a business advocacy group, this morning released a new forecast of post-pandemic commuting trends, based on employee surveys and detailed interviews with major employers.
Honor Earth Day By Incinerating Gasoline?
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On Monday, a Boston Logan International Airport social media staffer, possibly impaired from the permanent haze of toxic, partially-combusted hydrocarbons that hangs over their workplace, invited travelers to celebrate Earth Day by driving to the airport. “For those traveling, parking at the airport brings you close to your terminal and reduces the impact on the […]
Boston Looks at E-Bikes for Deliveries
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The City of Boston wants to design and potentially launch an e-cargo bike delivery pilot program
Bike Light Legislation Renews Debate Over Policing’s Role In Traffic Safety
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"There are concerns we have that this would be enforced through police interactions, and we know those to be inherently inequitable, and that they lead to more drastic incidents for people of color."
How to Build a Cheap Homemade Speed Camera
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Most drivers in the North End go under 20 mph - but reckless speeding over 40 mph was distressingly common.
EV Rebates Overwhelmingly Benefit Wealthy Suburbanites
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The Baker administration has spent $14 million to subsidize purchases of new Teslas, whose products are all categorized as "luxury" cars.
Data: Road Violence Affects Black Neighborhoods More
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Of the 210 fatal car crashes in Massachusetts where a driver killed a bike rider or pedestrian between 2018 and 2020, a quarter of those killings occurred in neighborhoods where the Black population makes up a higher-than-average proportion of the neighborhood population
Book Club Event Discusses ‘Right of Way’ with Angie Schmitt
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Schmitt’s book provides a detailed investigation into how pedestrian deaths have increased by 50 percent in the past decade, and how our nation’s persistent patterns of racism and economic inequality play into this under-reported public health crisis.
Rep. Pressley Calls on Feds to Fund Highways, Transit Equally
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Since 1982, federal transportation funding has been governed by the "80-20 split," which restricts the federal Department of Transportation from spending more than 20 percent of its Highway Trust Fund money on transit projects, leaving the majority of federal funding for highway projects.