IF YOU DON’T live in or around Charlestown, chances are you have no idea why so much of the Wynn Resorts casino debate centers around fixing traffic problems in Sullivan […]
Transportation
Posted inState House News Service, Transportation
Taxi regulations could also change
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A MODERNIZATION OF THE TAXI CAB INDUSTRY could be integrated into legislative efforts to regulate ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft, according to a House lawmaker […]
Posted inTransportation
No common ground in Uber fight
WITH A RAINBOW of partisans as a backdrop – hundreds of Uber supporters in blue, a near-equal number of taxi drivers in bright yellow, and a smattering of Lyft devotees in […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
The Uber hearing
Today’s State House hearing on bills to regulate ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft is likely to ignore the elephant in the room. Lawmakers will hear testimony on bills to regulate the […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
Funding transportation beyond state taxation
The gas tax indexing defeat left Massachusetts cities and towns scrambling to figure out where new dollars to fund roads, bridges, and mass transit repairs would come from. With state […]
Posted inState House News Service, Transportation
Once again, MBTA maps out growing budget deficits
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE MBTA HAS sketched out a growing deficit within its transit system that would balloon to $427 million in four years, as expenses far outpace growth […]
Posted inThe Back Story, Transportation
The Dukakis-Weld rail link
FORMER GOVERNORS Mike Dukakis and Bill Weld are heading up to Beacon Hill next week to put a rail link between North and South stations on Gov. Charlie Baker’s radar. […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
Biking and driving on the streets of Boston
Cyclists are some of the most passionate advocates that the Bay State’s transportation sector has ever seen. Thanks to the pressure of bike advocates, bike lanes have been carved out […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
For Pollack and Beaton, past makes for awkward prologue
Where you stand depends on where you sit. That old adage is doubly true this morning when it comes to Gov. Charlie Baker’s cabinet. Two of his cabinet secretaries, Stephanie […]
Posted inThe Back Story, Transportation
T spin on the Green Line Ext.
I heard the cost of the Green Line Extension was spinning out of control in early June, but I had no proof and ended up not writing anything. That’s my […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
Green Line extension could take a lot more green
Nearly 11 months ago, the federal government promised Massachusetts almost $1 billion to help the state extend the MBTA’s Green Line into Somerville and Medford. At the time, nearly everyone […]
Posted inState House News Service, Transportation
Green Line extension endangered
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE COST SET set by the Green Line Extension contractor for the first three stations is more than double the amount state and federal transit officials […]
Posted inOpinion, Transportation
Funds are there for North-South Rail Link
THE NEXT TIME you decide to write about a major transportation project that two former governors strongly support and in which they were deeply involved during their terms in the corner […]
Posted inState House News Service, The Download, Transportation
North-South Rail Link rides again
The dynamic duo of  Michael Dukakis and William Weld have teamed up to seize the headlines in the dog days of summer with a surefire conversation starter: building the North-South […]
Posted inOpinion, Transportation
There’s a new driver in town
LAWMAKERS ON BEACON HILL may be debating how and whether to regulate ride-sharing services such as Uber, but as far as I’m concerned the debate is over. Let’s move on. […]
Posted inEconomy, Transportation
Uber finds a way at Logan
Second in a series UBER, THE RIDE-SHARING app that is gobbling up the taxi business in Greater Boston, is now setting its sights on Logan International Airport despite a state […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
Policymakers face Uber dilemma
State and local policymakers don’t know what to do about ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft that are steadily destroying the taxi industry. The apps are transforming right before our […]
Posted inEconomy, Transportation
An Uber problem for the cab industry
First in a series THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE: Uber and other ride-sharing companies are steadily chipping away at the business of taxi and livery companies which find themselves hamstrung by […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
MBTA has to up its game for control board
It has come to this: The fate of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority lies with a fiscal and management control board tasked with rebuilding the legendarily feckless public transportation system […]
Posted inState House News Service, The Download, Transportation
The Globe’s I-93 off-ramp
Boston 2024’s initial plan for transforming the area around UMass Boston into an Olympic Athlete’s Village included a new on-and-off ramp to I-93 that would have cut right through the […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service, Transportation
Lawmakers skeptical of MBTA control board plan
Can the Baker administration address the MBTA’s problems using the tools that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation already has? That was the question that the Joint Committee on Transportation wrestled […]
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Panel calls for MBTA fiscal control board
The special panel appointed by Gov. Charlie Baker to examine the MBTA after the transit system’s winter collapse proposed a nuclear option – a fiscal and management control board, to […]
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MBTA critics pile on
The evidence is mounting, as if more was needed, that the MBTA is in an epic freefall. The agency is on its way to being a Harvard Business School case […]
Posted inOpinion, Transportation
A short and long-term plan
THE RECENT MBTA meltdown has impressed upon the general public the critical importance of a reliable transit system to their daily lives. The T’s utter failure to provide reliable service […]