State officials declined to approve the project’s environmental impact report, instead ordering Encore officials to respond to concerns about how much traffic the project’s parking garage would create.
The “red flags are waving” across Massachusetts, with housing, transportation and migration patterns continuing to trend in the wrong direction, according to a new report.
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.
Boston-area drivers wasted an average of 50 hours in traffic congestion last year, as traffic returned following a brief respite during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.
“Traffic, for all intents and purposes, is back to about 2019 levels on most roadways in Massachusetts at this point,” Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver said Monday.
As horrendous as the coronavirus pandemic has been for so many in Massachusetts, it also represents an opportunity to build better infrastructure. The real estate community has an important role to play in making that happen.
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.
If your driving commute in Greater Boston has seemed surprisingly easy this week, you’re not alone: traffic has been below average on major highways.
Seven months from the finish line, here’s a look at three major issues to watch in the next few months that could mark big changes for the real estate industry,
A 50 percent gas tax increase could soon exacerbate the challenge of commuting to and from work in one of the most robust economies of the nation. But will this create any meaningful solutions to address the commonwealth’s congestion and climate change challenges? We don’t think so.
With an aging workforce and a low unemployment rate, Massachusetts faces a tight labor market, creating a dynamic that could limit the state’s future economic growth.
Did you drive to work in Greater Boston this morning? Congratulations: You took one of the most expensive such trips in the country.
A group of 357 scientists say majority-minority cities and neighborhoods are exposed to 66 percent more of a deadly type of pollutant produced by cars, called PM2.5, that can cause cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, and early death.
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.
As we brace for more than a decade of massive construction on the Mass. Pike, let’s make our whole transportation system part of the solution. The time to invest in improved service on the Worcester Line and transit on the Grand Junction right-of-way is now.
State transportation officials said last week that when Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack said this week that highway carpools lanes are mostly filled with scofflaws she wasn’t basing it on any hard evidence.
Congestion is holding back Greater Boston from its full economic potential – and the consequences go far beyond just the time we waste stuck in gridlock on our roads.
Not even a summit about fixing traffic can escape it.
