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Alan WirzbickiBoston Globe |
Everyone wants the train, nobody wants the train yards.
The Allston Interchange plan has changed countless times since the state began planning it a decade ago, and undoubtedly it’ll change many times...
I’ve been collecting failed predictions related to Greater Boston’s physical infrastructure for the last two years. Some were nuts, but some...
The Northern Tier isn’t second tier.
The extreme dysfunction of the Legislature, though, is giving GOP candidates an opening to use the same playbook that Democrats have often used...
The very best way for the T to rebuild ridership at this point is to reestablish rider’s confidence that trains run every day without fail.
The Grand Junction is an increasingly incongruous relic: a sizable chunk of Cambridge real estate that is rarely used anymore and creates traffic...
John Deaton, the attorney who won the Republican nomination last month, faults Warren for failing to bring home the bacon for her constituents.
The closely watched case has critical implications for the state’s housing crisis.
Is the T going to resume late-night subway service eight years after discontinuing it?
Bike controversies were clearly part of the Cambridge state representative campaign backdrop — and a potential sign of the political turbulence that...
There’s always been fare evasion on transit. But New York seems to have reached a tipping point where it’s starting to become the rule on buses,...
Last Thursday, members of the Wu administration cut the ribbon on the city’s first “traffic garden,” a miniature play streetscape for kids in...
Maybe the Fairmount project breaks the pattern of missed deadlines, but four years is an awfully short timetable to become the first battery-train...
It’s perfectly reasonable in a democracy to let voters decide how to divvy up a limited public resource – in this case, street space.
Did Boston avoid a fiasco or miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when it abandoned its bid to host the 2024 Olympics?
Navigation apps offer far more and more accurate information than the spiral-bound atlases drivers of yore bought at gas stations.
If the T can’t be reliable, can it at least be fun?
Turning left is stressful for drivers, annoying to the motorists stuck behind them, and dangerous.
We're still arguing about the North South Rail Link, an idea roughly as ancient as the Old Testament but not nearly as exciting.
Don’t get me wrong: Saving the T is a good idea and good use of public funds. But saving it with the millionaires tax might not be a great...
Governor Kathy Hochul of New York earned herself a profile in cowardice on Wednesday when she indefinitely “paused” New York City’s pioneering...
Boston’s bike-lane haters will have at least one champion at the ballot box next year, thanks to North End restaurateur Jorge Mendoza Iturralde’s...
It’s Memorial Day — a time when Americans traditionally honor those who gave their lives for freedom by sitting in endless lines of traffic.
A guy walks into the T carrying flowers...
It may be an unpopular view, but banishing people from an airline forever is a pretty serious move.
Massachusetts doesn't exactly do the whole romance-of-the-open-road shtick.
The thrift shop chain will close in June, after years of supplying the community with used books and records, oddball furniture, and a vast number of...
If Tibbits-Nutt was impolitic, that doesn’t mean she was wrong.
Not that drivers in Boston were exactly Boy Scouts before COVID-19, but flagrant rudeness certainly seems more prevalent.
Coming generations will never know what it was like to get oil changes, watch wretched gas station TV, or be able to surmise what’s going on in the...
Patricia Quinn, who runs the Maine state authority that funds the 146-mile state-subsidized passenger train service known as the Downeaster, spoke...
Like a lot of transit services across the country, ridership on the town of Lexington’s tiny Lexpress service flatlined during the pandemic.
There were 30 cyclist deaths in New York City in 2023, up from less than 20 in 2022 and the city’s highest total in decades.
The city is proceeding with a proposal to add a new commuter rail station in West Roxbury, Mayor Michelle Wu said in a meeting with the Globe...
This is the second large-scale interruption in recent weeks that seemed to come out of nowhere.
On average, there are about two dozen motorcoach fatalities every year, according to federal regulators.
Does closing the Concord prison mean we can get rid of the rotary, too?
Safety is a concern that the state can’t shy away from if it wants to rebuild ridership.
In the 20th century, meeting the state’s long-term challenges meant destroying towns. What if meeting this century’s challenges means building...
A group of sophomore students at Suffolk University took on the ultimate academic challenge: fixing the T.
Plow driver shortages have made digging out from this weekend’s storm even more challenging. But there are other ways to clear snow and ice.
Paying for air? At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon: What is the world coming to?
The MBTA has been closing sections of the system to perform overdue maintenance.
Is rail service enough to boost the economies of remote areas?