Articles in Transportation
DeLeo – Let’s decide transportation $, then budget
Originally posted on the T4MA blog
By Marie Szaniszlo
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo this morning said he wants the Legislature to decide how much to earmark for transportation, including funding for the MBTA and regional transit …
Building support for transportation finance reform
On Monday, February 25, more than 100 people came to Salem’s Old Town Hall for an MAPC regional forum, co-sponsored by many local, regional, and statewide partners, focusing on the importance of investing in our …
What does speed have to do with vibrant communities?
On January 18, MAPC hosted a packed house for Slow Down! Speed Reduction Strategies for Vibrant Communities. The room was filled with bicycle and pedestrian advocates, local planners and public works staff, public health professionals, …
“The way forward” to transportation reform in MA
Yesterday, the Patrick Administration unveiled a menu of options for plugging the gap in the state’s transportation budget, based on the findings of a report prepared by MassDOT, titled “The Way Forward: A 21st Century …
New maps show travel times on the T
Maps are perfect for telling you how far away places are, but what about how long it takes to get there? Whether you’re on a bus, in a car, or taking the T, knowing the …
“Fiscal cliff” deal yields a win for public transit
One important federal transportation issue that MAPC has been working on in the past year is/was the disparity between commuter tax benefits for those who drive and those who take public transportation.
Beginning on January 1, …
Hubway Data Challenge Winners
Data heads, animators, graphics geeks, designers, mappers, students and professional visualization artists converged on The Bocoup Loft in Boston’s Fort Point Channel Tuesday night to find out the answer to one question: who had won the …
My Way or the Hubway
Originally posted on Jackie’s Daily Drifting
My name is Jackie and I had a Hubway membership.
There, I said it. The best part? It was awesome.
I think that like many people, I viewed Hubway bikes as useful–albeit silly-looking, clunky, and …
Transportation World In Crisis?
If you’ve heard a lot about the federal government’s new two-year transportation funding program but aren’t sure what it means for Massachusetts, Transportation for America is here to translate this significant bill into Bay State …
What do half a million bike-share trips look like to YOU?
Calling all data geeks, designers, students, and bike-share lovers! Get started on your entry in the first-ever Hubway Visualization Contest, co-sponsored by MAPC and Hubway.
For the first time, Hubway’s complete trip history data is being …
