I was pleased to report the successful completion of legislative efforts to pass a transportation funding package. It represented the main product of the first leg of the legislative session and was a very necessary and difficult thing to do. I fully supported it and accept full responsibility for every element of it. Unfortunately, it …
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 …
Ask Me About the Financial Costs of Sexual Abuse and Incest
Dear Senator Will Brownsberger, At 59, I still spend days working my brain out of chronic PTSD symptoms and dissociation that is so alive it changes all of my senses, just so I can sit and breathe. It is not war PTSD. Growing up, I gladly used any destructive patterns of living I could to …
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Upcoming service changes on the Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line
We have received the following information about the upcoming service outages on the Fitchburg commuter rail line. MassDOT is in the process of a major rehabilitation of that line which requires service accommodations: Weekend Service on the Fitchburg Line is curtailed to support the Fitchburg Line Rehabilitation effort. Currently, weekend service terminates at South Acton …
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