Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Massachusetts

Massachusetts Official: Boston’s Winter Cyclists “Living in the Wrong City”

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 19, 2014 | 26 Comments

Bostonians making polite requests for a clear path on one of the city’s key bike routes were met with disdain from the state agency responsible for maintaining the paths. Here’s how one unnamed official from the Massachusetts’ Department of Conservation and Recreation responded in an internal email thread to a message from a Boston resident asking […]

Transport U: Mode Shift at MIT

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 18, 2013 | No Comments

This is the third installment in Streetsblog’s series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ, and part two profiled Stanford’s TDM programs. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a long track record of trying to minimize traffic. The Institute has run a formal transportation […]

Will Massachusetts Tax Parking Lots to Fund Transit?

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 11, 2013 | 13 Comments

Here’s a transportation funding idea that aligns incentives nicely: taxing parking lots to pay for transit. That’s what one former high-ranking state official is proposing for Massachusetts, ahead of a big announcement by the state Department of Transportation. Earlier this week Governing Magazine looked at the parking lot tax plan, part of a series of […]

Which Mitt Would Shape U.S. Transpo Policy: The Governor or the Candidate?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 5, 2012 | 2 Comments

Tomorrow, Americans will decide who will be President of the United States for the next four years. On Friday, we took a look at the last four years of White House transportation policy under President Barack Obama. Today we review the record and the platform of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Streetsblog does not endorse candidates. […]

MassDOT Secretary: “We Will Build No More Superhighways”

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 10, 2012 | 10 Comments

OK, everybody, pack your bags. We’re all moving to Massachusetts. The Bay State’s transportation secretary, Richard Davey, has launched a “mode shift” campaign, saying in no uncertain terms that it’s time for people to get out of their cars and onto trains, buses, bikes, and their own two feet. His goal is to triple the […]

Fact-Checking Deval Patrick’s Attack on Romney’s Transpo Record

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick got wild applause last night when he told the Democratic Convention audience: In Massachusetts, we know Mitt Romney. By the time he left office, Massachusetts was 47th in the nation in job creation—during better economic times—and household income in our state was declining. He cut education deeper than anywhere else in […]

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