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Opting out of the city’s municipal electricity program, whose rates are now higher than Eversource’s, seems like a no-brainer. But there are...
It’s not written in stone that projects like South Coast Rail, which finally opened after about 30 years of planning and delays, have to take so long.
I've read through three of a new crop of state-by-state rankings. The broad takeaway is... don't take rankings too seriously.
Many people have fond memories of the Harvard Square landmark. But The Pit had a dark side that shouldn’t be glossed over.
I wrote a whole article making fun of the plight of Tesla owners. Then I decided to drop it. They've suffered enough.
MassPort has proposed raising fees for Uber and Lyft rides to Logan Airport to up to $15 round-trip. I asked readers: What do you think?
In 2023, in took twelve days to rebuild a portion of Interstate 95 that collapsed in Philadelphia in 2023 – a tantalizing example of what Americans...
Three Opinion writers to weigh in on the debate about bike and bus lanes across the city.
The Trump administration said it will give more transportation funding to places with higher marriage and fertility rates. How romantic!
He’s a rich white guy, who comes from a family that may not be super popular in Boston right now. Can he beat an incumbent mayor who has a serious...
Boston would be allowed to install up to 130 speed cameras under a proposal filed by Governor Maura Healey that could markedly upgrade traffic...
Massachusetts politicians were fine with the economic costs of protecting endangered species – but only when it meant destroying the livelihoods of...
The relatively smooth rollout in New York has, predictably, triggered questions about what other cities might follow the Big Apple’s lead.
Are police in Boston really making fewer arrests than in small towns – and if so, why?
Pedestrian deaths have been rising, and it’s increasingly indefensible not to use an obvious tool to reduce them.
The clock is ticking on the Healey administration’s transportation funding task force.
Everyone wants the train, nobody wants the train yards.
The Allston Interchange plan has changed countless times since the state began planning it a decade ago, and undoubtedly it’ll change many times...
I’ve been collecting failed predictions related to Greater Boston’s physical infrastructure for the last two years. Some were nuts, but some showed...
The Northern Tier isn’t second tier.
The extreme dysfunction of the Legislature, though, is giving GOP candidates an opening to use the same playbook that Democrats have often used...
The very best way for the T to rebuild ridership at this point is to reestablish rider’s confidence that trains run every day without fail.
The Grand Junction is an increasingly incongruous relic: a sizable chunk of Cambridge real estate that is rarely used anymore and creates traffic...
John Deaton, the attorney who won the Republican nomination last month, faults Warren for failing to bring home the bacon for her constituents.
The closely watched case has critical implications for the state’s housing crisis.
Is the T going to resume late-night subway service eight years after discontinuing it?
Bike controversies were clearly part of the Cambridge state representative campaign backdrop — and a potential sign of the political turbulence...
There’s always been fare evasion on transit. But New York seems to have reached a tipping point where it’s starting to become the rule on buses,...
Last Thursday, members of the Wu administration cut the ribbon on the city’s first “traffic garden,” a miniature play streetscape for kids in South...
Maybe the Fairmount project breaks the pattern of missed deadlines, but four years is an awfully short timetable to become the first battery-train...
It’s perfectly reasonable in a democracy to let voters decide how to divvy up a limited public resource – in this case, street space.
Did Boston avoid a fiasco or miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when it abandoned its bid to host the 2024 Olympics?