The long awaited direct bike path connection from Belmont (next to where the Fitchburg line crosses Brighton Street — click for map) to Alewife is open! The overall project is in its final phase of construction, with connections to Cambridge Park Drive (previously open as a detour) and into the marsh currently closed. But you …
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Fitchburg Line Shutdown
We’ve recently received expressions of concern about plans for the Fitchburg line to shut down during certain weekends to support construction activities. For more detail, please see the MBTA’s page on the issue. Overall, I don’t think this is a case of bureaucratic arrogance or incompetence. The MBTA actually does have a finite number of …
Sen. Brownsberger’s legislation leads to opening of MBTA pension books
The legislation sponsored by Senator Brownsberger paved the way for the opening of the MBTA pension books. The Boston Herald has been covering this story. The data was released from the MBTA, as the Retirement Board had refused to release the information.
Bicycle contraflow lanes
Will, I don’t live or ride near the proposed lane on Hemenway Street, but we need more of these. Anywhere that we have low-speed one-way streets whose primary purpose is to prevent excess cut-through traffic, we should allow 2-way traffic for bicycles. Excluding bicycles serve no useful purpose (they’re not very noisy, they’re not very …
Bowker Overpass Repair Project: MassDOT Public Meeting August 13th
We share this Public Information Meeting notice from MassDOT for the Bowker Overpass Repair Project. You can open a version of the notice here to enable the live links.
MBTA Retirement Board has yet to open pension fund books
The MBTA Retirement Board is balking at opening up the books of their pension fund, an action called for after passage of legislation sponsored by Senator Brownsberger. Here is The Boston Herald story. You can read more about Will’s work to end the secrecy of the MBTA pension system at this forum posting.