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Ballot initiatives: Voters favor progressive taxation!

May 31, 2018 By Charley on the MTA 9 Comments

Since it's a gorgeous sunny day, I'll favor the most wildly optimistic take on today's WBUR polls of the tax ballot initiatives. The millionaires' tax? Very popular! 77% support it. The sales tax cut, from 6.25% to 5%? Also very popular! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: education, Fair Share, millionaire's tax, transportation

RBIs should win in a walk

May 23, 2018 By Charley on the MTA 4 Comments

While we lament that Bob DeLeo's is the House Where Hope Goes To Die/Why We Can't Have Nice Things, the Senate continues to do good and creative work -- even in spite of, uh, recent distractions. Sen. Eric Lesser has a Budget Amendment … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: mbta, RBIs, transportation

Why Cap and Invest Is the Right Solution for Massachusetts Transportation

October 19, 2017 By DanielGatti 2 Comments

With the Baker administration announcing new listening sessions to reduce pollution from transportation I wanted to cross-post this blog post from UCS' The Equation on the need for a cap and invest program covering transportation in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: climate, electric vehicles, GWSA, mbta, rggi, transportation

#CrumblingT: A video for a “car guy” mayor

September 25, 2017 By Charley on the MTA 7 Comments

First, to acknowledge Doug Rubin's objection to my use of "Coakley moment" to describe Marty Walsh's out-of-touch statement on the T. Martha's obviously paid a high price for the last few years, and I don't do this website to be cruel to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: marty-walsh, mbta, transportation

The Northeast Should Limit Pollution from Transportation

September 12, 2017 By DanielGatti Leave a Comment

Cross-posted from UCS blog The Equation. Over the past decade, the Northeast region of the United States has helped lead the country—and the world—in supporting and developing clean, renewable sources of electricity. Taken together, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: climate, environment, mapoli, mbta, transportation

MBTA GM: “a little fire on the tracks”

August 28, 2017 By Charley on the MTA 5 Comments

In case you missed it, WBUR's team of Chakrabarti and McNerney have even yet still another chapter in the fascinating story  of Luis Ramirez -- or more properly, of the people who hired him for the MBTA. The head-hunting firm that found … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, Luis Ramirez, mbta, red-line, Stephanie Pollack, transportation

Can’t Solve Transportation Without Addressing Housing

April 27, 2016 By thegreenmiles 64 Comments

Charley already wrote up WBUR's transportation poll, but WBUR did a sidebar story on some non-highway transportation ideas. Reporter Steve Brown talked to State Sen. Tom McGee about his idea to relieve traffic & help people get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: development, environment, housing, smart-growth, transportation, urban-density, urban-sprawl

“Jaywalking”: Blaming Pedestrians for Badly-Designed Streets

February 16, 2016 By thegreenmiles 60 Comments

If crosswalks are located hundreds of feet from where people need them, or if drivers are going too fast to stop for people in crosswalks, you might think safety improvements are needed. But as State House News Service reports, a Worcester … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: transportation

Entire Salem Bicycling Advisory Committee Quits

December 14, 2015 By thegreenmiles 5 Comments

Fed up with a transportation planning process they say perpetually prioritizes cars over the safety of people on bicycles, the entire Salem Bicycling Advisory Committee quit last week, as Dustin Luca reports for The Salem News: The group … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bicycling, salem, transportation

For Beacon Hill, The Right Time to Invest in MBTA is Never

March 19, 2015 By thegreenmiles 6 Comments

As WBUR's Zeninjor Enwemeka reports, a group of Massachusetts legislators rode the commuter rail this morning and got a representative ride: In an effort to better understand the challenges — and headaches — faced by public transit riders … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: mbta, transit, transportation

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bluemassgroupBlue Mass. Group@bluemassgroup·
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This won't do at all.

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This is horrible

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/national-guard-troops-vacate-capitol-461220

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They did the same with Obama and the economy in January '09.

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Yesterday Hannity was ranting about how it’s awful that Biden hadn’t solved the COVID crisis yet, hours after he was inaugurated https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-attacks-president-biden-not-having-covid-pandemic-under-control

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My mother is very proud that I’m the one dropping an f bomb in this bitch. Seriously though, it’s time to widen the lens of climate accountability. Big Oil relies on enablers, and they shouldn’t escape scrutiny https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1352389540334481410

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Ad agencies and PR agencies are renting themselves to the fossil fuel industry, supplying the creative juice necessary to wreck the planet. Please--do something different with your talents!

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@BostonDotCom Seventeen speeding tickets, at least 7 wrecks, and 6 license suspensions. Why do we need to wait until someone dies before permanently revoking the license of a driver who has repeatedly demonstrated that they can't be trusted to operate an automobile safely? #mapoli #ZeroVision

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@bluemassgroup @BostonGlobe More details not behind a paywall:

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