While the overall volume of cars on Massachusetts roadways has rebounded to the pre-pandemic crush, travel patterns remain altered and the state’s top highway official does not expect a new normal to become clear until the end of the year.
As the Senate prepares its own proposal to boost transportation spending, we must reflect on the magnitude of our looming transportation challenge and imagine the legislation that could emerge this year.
A coalition of business groups issued a call this morning for congestion pricing and tolls on roads beyond the Massachusetts Turnpike, big hikes to ride-hailing fees, an increase in the gas tax and other funds in order to pay for billions in necessary transit upgrades.
Transit access has for some years meant Greater Boston home sellers and commercial landlords alike could demand a premium for their property, but a new study from the National Association of Realtors has quantified just how much as the area’s roadways began their slow descent into sclerosis.
The Kendall Square Association has convened 18 of the area’s top employers representing 18,000 Massachusetts workers and charged them with creating data-driven experiments and running pilots to find strategies that can be scaled up.
The governor wants to do his part to help solve traffic congestion – from his Swampscott couch.
