A Message to Mayors: To Lead on Climate, Focus on Transportation
As mayors gather in Boston for an international summit on climate, Barr’s Mary Skelton Roberts makes the case for keeping mobility high on the agenda.
The Transportation Dividend
New study quantifies the significant economic and quality-of-life benefits Greater Boston and Massachusetts enjoy thanks to investments in transportation.
Time for Aspiration for Mobility in Massachusetts
Reflections on the urgency, and possibility of dramatic change in Massachusetts’ transportation system in 2018 and beyond.
Riding the Bus Is About to Get Better for 30,000 Commuters
Arlington, Everett, and Cambridge in partnership with Watertown, receive $100,000 grants to demonstrate BRT’s potential.
Arts, Culture and Transportation: A Creative Placemaking Field Scan
New analysis bolsters the case for collaboration between arts and transportation to generate innovative solutions to pressing mobility challenges.
Sound Lessons from Seattle
Eight lessons from Massachusetts leaders on a study tour of mobility innovations in Seattle.
The Results Are In: All-Door Boarding a Boost for the MBTA’s Silver Line Bus
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For two weeks, Silver Line riders boarded the bus through three doors instead of one. Here’s how it changed the commuting experience.
Commuting to Boston by Boat? In Five Years, You Could Be.
Insights into new efforts to expand ferry service in Boston Harbor, from Alice Brown of Boston Harbor Now.
Unlikely Meetings. Uncommon Solutions for the Future of Mobility.
Sharing the big ideas and ongoing conversations from the Meeting of the Minds Boston Mobility Summit.
Area Leaders Join Effort to Link Boston Neighborhoods and Job Centers with Bus Rapid Transit
Barr Climate Program Co-Director Mary Skelton Roberts interviews State Representative Russell Holmes and A Better City CEO Rick Dimino, members of a newly-formed advisory committee for BostonBRT.