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Reporter Meghan Volcy tried out the #MBTA's newly-redesigned 104 bus route from her hometown of Malden earlier this week. Read her review here: https://lnkd.in/gkRrkCib

#MBTA General Manager Phil Eng reports that a full-speed subway system is saving riders 40,000 hours every weekday: https://lnkd.in/gvqT__pp

Driver Kills Pedestrian Outside Roxbury Crossing T Station - A #Boston Police spokesperson called the killing an "accident," even though an investigation is allegedly still underway. Police did not arrest the suspect. https://lnkd.in/gz_nZ2rM

Starting next year, the Mass. Dept. of Conservation and Recreation will start tearing up asphalt to remove highway lanes and restore riverfront parkland in #CambMA: https://lnkd.in/gw-kfKzt

After a driver killed their neighbor, Forest Hills residents came to a public meeting last night hoping to learn about the City of Boston's plans to make Hyde Park Ave. safer. Instead, they learned that it'll be one more year before the city shares its plans for the street: https://lnkd.in/grJ4Pf3G #VisionZero

MassDOT built new sidewalks with protected bike lanes along Needham Street in Newton, but everyone's still waiting for Eversource and Verizon to move their old utility poles that are still blocking the newly-rebuilt roadway: https://lnkd.in/gmMrbp9x

Environmental filings for the #MBTA's Draw One Bridge replacement reveal that the project will take 8 years to build, and will impose temporary closures of the North Bank Bridge between Cambridge and Charlestown: https://lnkd.in/gtRxdQdE

The T is planning to run trains every 30 minutes on the Worcester Line by 2026: https://lnkd.in/gggQJ8ED

Reader Emily Jacobsen shares photos of the new Western Ave. bike lanes in Allston: https://lnkd.in/g99mKATn "It is not quite complete, but it will be a total game changer for people commuting out of Watertown/Brighton," Jacobsen told StreetsblogMASS.

Starting tomorrow (Friday), the Green Line will be closed from Park Street north for two weeks. It's the final subway service interruption of 2024, and one that the MBTA hopes will eliminate the last slow zones from the entire subway network: https://lnkd.in/gXXPFCd2