Legislative action to launch a long-sought passenger rail extension into western Massachusetts “certainly is being considered” among a growing to-do list, Senate President Karen Spilka said Monday, though the exact steps Beacon Hill will take remain unclear with less than eight weeks left for formal lawmaking business.
Time will tell but it doesn’t sound like Senate President Karen Spilka is eager for that branch to take up more than $600 million in new transportation taxes approved by the House before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
The U.S. House of Representatives may be neck-deep in impeachment hearings, but fear not the dinner table political discussion! This year, there is something everyone in Greater Boston can agree on.
The governors of Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maryland will join Gov. Charlie Baker in Boston this week to talk with transportation technology experts and policy advisers about ways to reduce congestion and boost economic competitiveness.
With the convergence of new technological innovation, we are seeing a drastic shift in how we interact with each other and the environment, CBT Architects Associate Principal Sae Kim says, and it’s changing how he – and we – are seeing cities.
Winter has come and gone, and while we appreciate the good fortune of a mild start to 2019, metropolitan Boston and areas of coastal Massachusetts still need to prepare for the storms to come.
Business leaders can’t let any pessimism get in the way of holding state leaders accountable for achieving the transit transformation Massachusetts desperately needs.
Massachusetts faces an $8.4 billion shortfall in revenues needed to ensure that state roads and bridges and MBTA infrastructure are in a state of good repair over the next 10 years, according to a new report.
State officials are asking for the public’s feedback on a draft plan aimed at making it safer and more convenient for cyclists.
The state has spent $16 billion on roads and bridges in the last 10 years. Still, infrastructure woes have persisted and in some cases mounted, in part due to problems at the MBTA.
The building of additional roads is not a realistic solution to our current and future transportation challenges in the Boston area.
The MBTA has awarded $639 million in new construction contracts addressing the system’s repair needs in fiscal 2018, according to Assistant General Manager for Capital Delivery Beth Larkin.
Just call it a case of tunnel vision.
Consider the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.
Passenger rail service between Springfield and Greenfield is now scheduled to begin on a pilot basis in the spring of 2019, state officials announced Tuesday.
Transportation officials sketched out plans to spend $17.2 billion on capital projects over the next five years and approved a new policy to continue the old practice of paying certain MBTA employees through the capital budget.
The MBTA is an underappreciated asset in metropolitan Boston. Certainly on some days – especially in the winter – it can be challenging to argue this point, but on the whole, the MBTA generates enormous benefits to both residents and businesses in this region.
The field of mobility is undergoing dramatic disruption on a daily basis. For those who follow traditional transportation issues (like me), the old paradigm was one of very gradual change and very little disruption.
The state’s new vehicle inspection technology landed with a thud when the Registry of Motor Vehicles rolled it out earlier this month, leaving hundreds of service stations unable to participate in the program that regulates vehicle safety and emissions.
The Baker administration plans to tackle the thorny issue of extracting additional emission reductions from the transportation sector, officials announced at a summit Tuesday where they marked the one-year anniversary of a climate change executive order.
