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TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT GRANT RAISED ISSUES OF EQUITY

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted February 15, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The Somerville City Council voted to not approve the award

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Police, road, safety, SOMERVILLE, traffic, transportation

OUR FAVORITE PLACES TO CRY IN BOSTON

Written by DIG STAFF Posted October 9, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, GTFO, Guides, LIFESTYLE, Lulz, Non-fiction

Since many of our friends in other cities have included lists of the best places to cry on campus in their back-to-school guides, we thought it would be fun—if not a bit depressing, in a shameless click-whorey kind of way—to expand such a survey to an entire metro region.

Filed Under: FEATURES, GTFO, Guides, LIFESTYLE, Lulz, Non-fiction Tagged With: Beacon Hill, best places to cry, Boston, Downtown Crossing, I-93, MBTA, places to cry, public garden, red line, state library, traffic

CHARLIE ON THE BRT

Written by TOM ASHTON Posted September 19, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Bus rapid transit is no longer a pipe dream in the Boston area

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Barr Foundation, BRT, bus, Bus Rapid Transit, condembta, Everett, Mass Ave, MBTA, public transit, traffic, trains

PUBLIC TRANSIT IN BOSTON HASN’T GOTTEN VERY FAR IN 130 YEARS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 17, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

We pulled more than 1,000 words from the episode’s transcript, replaced (a minimal number of) dated terms like “horses” with more neutral or contemporary ones, and excerpted it below for you to have a good laugh (and/or cry) as you read this on an un-air-conditioned Red Line on the hottest day of the summer.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: American Experience, Boston History, congestion, Dirty Old Boston, history, MBTA, shortcuts, subway, throwback, traffic

OH, SULLIVAN: I BRAVED THE NOTORIOUS CROSSHAIRS OF CHARLESTOWN, EVERETT, AND SOMERVILLE AND LIVED TO WRITE ABOUT IT

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted May 22, 2018 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

Even for this tortured region, Sullivan is something of an evil clusterfuck oasis, an otherworldly portal into gridlock that uniquely cripples multiple municipalities at once.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Cambridge, chelsea, crash, Encore Casino, Everett, MBTA, rotary, SOMERVILLE, Sullivan Square, T stop, traffic, transit, transportation, Wynn casino

LET’S BOLT: A DIARY FROM SOMEONE WHO ALMOST BLEW UP ON THE BOLT BUS YESTERDAY

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted May 12, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

You will never see my ass on one of those fucking buses again.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: bolt bus, Department of Transportation, eastbound, exploding, fire, fire department, hazzard, i-90, josh rosenberg, mass pike, New York City, newton, rum, traffic

CLUELESS MASS TROOPER TWEETS NONSENSE

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted January 16, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS

On privileged lawmen editorializing protest news

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #blacklivesmatter, #HowDisruptive, disruption, Emily Hopkins, I-93, Mass State Police, police brutality, social media, traffic, Twitter

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