Transportation

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Beacon Street Speeding

Beacon Street is effectively designed as a speedway: only through engineering changes can we actually reduce speed. The Boston Transportation Department will be holding a meeting on June 1st at 6:00pm in the Commonwealth Salon of the Boston Public Library to discuss redesigning Beacon Street in the Back Bay to improve safety.

Changing Expectations for the Green Line

At our recent forum about the Green Line’s future, MBTA General Manager Frank DePoala offered hope for continuous improvement of reliability and modest resulting capacity increases, but no hope for big capacity increases within the visible planning horizon. The dose of reality he offered about the long term will require some time to digest.

New Commuter Rail Schedules which will go into effect on Monday, May 23, 2016

Last fall Keolis and the MBTA announced new Commuter Rail schedules but delayed implementation – those schedules were rolled out with limited notice and limited public input.  Secretary Pollack  postponed the rollout to this spring after some public input. The MBTA rereleased the new schedules, with some changes in response to the feedback received, which will go into effect on …

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MassDOT Draft 5 year Capital Investment Plan (CIP) FY17-FY22

Every year MassDOT releases a  Capital Investment Plan (CIP), which lays out the long term investments that the administration will make in our transportation infrastructure.  Last year, being the first year of the new administration MassDOT only released a 1 year CIP for the MBTA and MassDOT as the agencies reassessed the commitments made by the …

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