1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (728+ words) On Friday morning, Mayor Wu issued a detailed 6-page letter to residents in which she outlined her administration’s plan to improve the safety of the city’s streets, and address mounting criticism of her administration’s streets cabinet. As we’ve reported extensively…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1749+ words) An internal “30 day review” of city transportation projects that Mayor Wu requested during her re-election campaign last year was supposed to improve the public’s trust in the city’s ability to manage street safety and transit improvement projects. “Through this review…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (478+ words) We’ve Been Waiting For Over A Year For Boston to Honor State Public Records Laws Streetsblog Massachusetts We’ve Been Waiting For Over A Year For Boston to Honor State Public Records Laws For the past year and a half, StreetsblogMASS…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (248+ words) The MBTA is suspending Red Line service north of downtown Boston for 10 consecutive days starting on Tuesday, July 21. The service suspension will let the T complete necessary track work, including replacement of numerous “floating slabs” that support Red Line tracks…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (463+ words) A new supplemental budget law will give the MBTA an extra $60 million to pay for previously-unfunded capital projects, with a $1 million earmark for the agency to prepare a detailed implementation plan for its “regional rail” initiative. The money will come…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (607+ words) Editor’s note: the following is adapted from a press release from the Mass. Vision Zero Coalition. One week after Louisa Gag, a City of Boston transportation planner and longtime street-safety advocate, was killed by a person driving a truck as…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (734+ words) Back-to-back crashes within a half-mile stretch of highway in the South Coast town of Dartmouth have claimed the lives of three people this week on a MassDOT-controlled highway with well-documented safety problems. On Monday morning, a driver struck and killed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (723+ words) On April 25, Mayor Michelle Wu joined about 60 of us for the fourth annual Hyde Park Avenue Safety Walk. She acknowledged what everyone who lives along the corridor already knows: Hyde Park Avenue is wildly unsafe, buses are chronically stuck in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (674+ words) Mayor Wu’s administration had already identified the Mission Hill intersection where Louisa Gag was killed last week as a threat to public safety, and had spent several hundred thousand dollars to host public hearings and develop plans to make the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (327+ words) Family members have identified the victim of Thursday morning’s homicide crash near Roxbury Crossing as Louisa Gag, a longtime street safety advocate and transportation planner at Boston’s City Hall. Gag grew up in Roslindale and spent most of her career…...