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Slower Than Walking: Downtown Gridlock Bogs Down the T’s Subway Replacement Shuttles
By Grecia White |
On the first full day of an emergency shutdown of the central portions of the Orange and Green lines, thousands of subway passengers endured long lines for shuttle buses and excruciatingly slow trips between North Station and Government Center.
Weekend Roundup: BART Endorses Fare Integration, Ferry for Western Alameda…
By Roger Rudick |
...and police want help finding hit-and-run driver
ROE OVERTURNED: Transportation Will Now Play an Even Greater Role in Health Care
By Kea Wilson |
Friday's rollback of the once-constitutionally protected procedure will only raise the already high hurdle to abortion care countless U.S. residents, advocates say.
Dear CTA: Stop gaslighting us. Change “scheduled service” to better reflect actual service.
By John Greenfield |
The CTA needs to do the honest and responsible thing. It must change its published timetables so that "scheduled service" and actual service begin to at least remotely resemble each other.
MBTA Closes Downtown Segments of Orange, Green Lines
By Christian MilNeil |
The MBTA abruptly shut down several downtown stops on its Orange and Green Lines Thursday evening after construction workers discovered “severely deteriorated” support columns in the Haymarket station subway tunnels. To keep trains and passengers away from those columns, effective immediately, the Orange Line will be split in two parts, with trains running between Forest […]
DR. STRANGECAR: Or How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Hate E-Cars
By Gersh Kuntzman |
OPINION: Electric cars are a huge threat to livable streets. As more people greenwash the tailpipe-exhaust-free vehicles, more people outside the movement are starting to believe that e-cars solve all the problems of cars. If you think electric cars are going to change all the problems of cars, well, I've got a bridge I really wish I could sell you.