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Christian MilNeil

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Free Passes For Boston’s Main Street Workers Boost Transit, Bluebikes Ridership

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 8, 2021 | No Comments
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.
The new Columbus Ave. bus lanes and upgraded bus platforms at Walnut Avenue, near Franklin Park.

Eyes On the Street: A Quick Ride on Boston’s New Transitway

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 4, 2021 | No Comments
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 […]
The new protected bike lane on Commonwealth Avenue, pictured on May 8, 2019.

Research Suggests Boston’s New Protected Lanes Boosted Bikeshare Traffic 80 Percent

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 23, 2021 | No Comments
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.
A quick-build protected bike lane on State Street in downtown Boston, pictured in October 2020. Courtesy of the City of Boston.

Report: Workplace Parking Subsidies Could Drive A Return to Gridlock

By Christian MilNeil | Jun 22, 2021 | No Comments
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.
A screenshot from Boston Logan International Airport's Earth Day tweet, which was deleted on Monday afternoon after amassing hundreds of scornful replies.

Honor Earth Day By Incinerating Gasoline?

By Christian MilNeil | Apr 21, 2021 | No Comments
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 […]
Cargo bikes and trailers are parked on the sidewalk outside the Whole Foods Market on Houston Street in New York City in this 2019 file photograph. Courtesy of StreetsblogNYC.

Boston Looks at E-Bikes for Deliveries

By Christian MilNeil | Apr 14, 2021 | No Comments
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

By Christian MilNeil | Mar 22, 2021 | No Comments
"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."
Adam Balsam's homemade speed camera consists of a webcam, a $35 hobbyist computer, and some free open-source software that can analyze speeds from the images of moving cars. Photo courtesy of Adam Balsam.

How to Build a Cheap Homemade Speed Camera

By Christian MilNeil | Mar 1, 2021 | No Comments
Most drivers in the North End go under 20 mph - but reckless speeding over 40 mph was distressingly common.
The Commonwealth's MOR-EV program, which pays $2,500 to residents who buy a new electric car, has paid out millions of dollars to households living in wealthy suburbs like Weston, Lexington, and Lincoln. Lower-income communities, by contrast, have received a much smaller fraction of the program's spending.

EV Rebates Overwhelmingly Benefit Wealthy Suburbanites

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 19, 2021 | No Comments
The Baker administration has spent $14 million to subsidize purchases of new Teslas, whose products are all categorized as "luxury" cars.
A plot of fatal crashes (red circles) that involved a bike rider or pedestrian between 2018 and 2020 in the greater Brockton area. Of 11 fatal crashes in the region, 9 occurred in neighborhoods where Black residents make up 10 percent or more of the total neighborhood population.

Data: Road Violence Affects Black Neighborhoods More

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 13, 2021 | No Comments
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

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 22, 2020 | No Comments
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.
An unrealistically traffic-free rendering of MassDOT's proposed new interchange at I-495 and I-90, a federally-funded project that's expected to cost about $300 million.

Rep. Pressley Calls on Feds to Fund Highways, Transit Equally

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 14, 2020 | No Comments
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.
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