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Boston MBTA Tests Out All-Door Boarding, With Systemwide Implementation...
Over two weeks this spring, bus riders on Boston’s Silver Line got a glimpse of how much better service can be with all-door boarding. The MBTA tested out all-door boarding on the two branches of the...
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Boston Tests Faster Bus Service Simply By Laying Out Orange Cones
On a typical weekday, bus riders make 19,000 trips on a one-mile section of Washington Street in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston. At rush hour, they put up with bus speeds that are slower than...
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Boston Advocates Show How the Law Lets Drivers Get Away With Killing Cyclists
On the morning of August 7, 2015, Matthew Levari drove a semi-truck across the path of Anita Kurmann, who was riding straight ahead on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston’s Back Bay. Kurmann, a well-known...
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Evidence From Boston That Uber Is Making Traffic Worse
Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft are exacerbating rush-hour traffic jams in Boston, according to new research by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. The results should be a wake-up call...
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How Boston Used Meter Prices to Fix Parking Dysfunction
Boston has reduced illegal parking by adjusting meter rates, according to new a report from the city [PDF]. The price of on-street parking is a powerful lever to reduce street dysfunction. But in most...
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Boston’s Best Bet for Better Transit: Modernizing Commuter Rail
Boston commuter rail has the pieces for an expansive modern system. What it needs isn’t a big extension, but a fresh approach to service. That’s according to a new report from local advocacy group...
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Will Boston Turn Around Its Ailing Bus System?
In Boston, like many U.S. cities, fewer people are riding the bus. MBTA bus ridership fell 8 percent in 2016 compared to the previous year, even as the Boston region adds people and jobs. The reason...
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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh Staffs Up for Better Bus Service and Safer Walking...
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh wants City Hall to staff up to improve bus service, increase cycling, and reduce traffic fatalities. It could be a breakthrough for a city where advocates have ramped up the...
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Boston Fixed Its Most Frustrating Street for Bus Riders, But Just for a Month
For the last month, one of Boston’s most important and most frustrating bus corridors got a big upgrade. Each weekday, half a dozen bus routes carrying 19,000 riders travel the 1.2-mile stretch of...
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Boston Makes Its Bus Lane Experiment Permanent
It doesn’t take much money to make riding the bus a lot more convenient. With little more than orange cones, Boston set up a bus lane on one of its most important but congested bus corridors — and it...
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Study: Lowering the Speed Limit … Works To Reduce Speeding
Here’s some encouraging news for cities trying to reduce speeding: New research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows that lowering posted speed limits appears to be effective at...
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Is Pedal Dockless Bike Share Going Extinct?
They’re taking the bike out of bike share. It wasn’t much more than a year ago that dockless bikes — the kind you rent for a half-hour or so to pedal to your destination — were the new tech innovation...
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SEE IT! Boston’s Bus Rapid Transit is Working
It was a momentous 2018 year for bus riders in greater Boston as municipalities around the region took bold steps to pilot elements of Bus Rapid Transit. Empowered by grants, the city-led regional...
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How To Fix A Fork (In The Road)
The practice of street design evolves slowly, but it does evolve. Every decade or so, a new technology like the bulb-out or the cycle track arrives on the scene to help us make our streets better. This...
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Cambridge Becomes First U.S. City to Make Protected Bike Lanes Mandatory
The Boston-area city of Cambridge is poised to become one of the most-progressive safe-biking cities in the country, thanks to the passage of a bill requiring protected bike lanes on all city streets....
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Are We Starting to See Progress Toward Vision Zero?
Cities are struggling to make good on their Vision Zero promises and, just maybe, starting to make progress toward the goal of zero deaths. It’s too soon to say definitively for sure. But there are...
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Footloose: Walkable Neighborhoods Attracting Investments While Burbs Die
The city will eventually destroy the suburb — by making it unnecessary to rely completely on a car. Over the past decade, Americans are increasingly seeking out homes in places where they can get to...
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Are Uber and Lyft the Future of Transit? Not So Fast
Cities that turn to technology companies to save their transit systems are bound to be disappointed by the outcome. Look no further than Pinellas County, Fla., whose transit authority was the first in...
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Uber/Lyft Responsible For A Large Share of Traffic
Uber and Lyft have finally come clean: Their vehicles are causing a big share of the congestion in several American cities. A new study jointly commissioned by the two app-based cab companies found...
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Truck Driver Kills Pedestrian In Harvard Square
A woman in her 60s was killed when a boom truck driver struck her in the heart of Harvard Square this week.
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