In brief, the House takes Gov. Maura Healey’s budget and, in several ways, improves it.
James Aloisi
Let’s get our terminology right on road pricing
Road pricing can be introduced as a way to manage traffic congestion, but that only works if we also significantly improve public transportation alternatives, because the traffic management/congestion reduction benefits of road pricing go hand-in-hand with providing enough people with viable public transit alternatives that it makes a difference to highway levels of service.
About $115 billion — that’s what it might take to fund the MBTA over next 15 years
Here is the exercise I would like to recommend to the governor and her leadership team, and indeed to each of us: What is the public transit and rail system we want operating in metro Boston in 2040?
First steps toward a coherent transportation revenue plan
These issues – the short-term need to generate ample net new revenue for the MBTA and the state regional transit authorities (RTAs), and the long-term need to find a permanent, fair, and viable replacement for the gas tax – intersect, and it’s important to understand this as policymakers decide what course to take.
EV charging can get very complicated
There are many factors that make EV charging infrastructure much more complicated than refueling a car with petrol or diesel. One simply cannot draw parallels between the two.
Why is EV adoption slowing down in the US?
Let’s start with a simple and obvious reason for the EV sales slowdown. Electric Vehicles still cost a lot. Despite a rash of EV price reductions in 2023, EVs still have a hefty price premium.
A need for speed on MBTA, transportation funding
We cannot wait until the crisis of lost gas tax revenue is upon us. Now is the time to consider what will replace this unpopular tax and whether that replacement revenue will come from one or from multiple sources.
MIT students propose better ways to connect Kendall Sq. and Logan
Students taking my Urban Planning and Policy class at MIT this fall were given an assignment: come up with a viable plan to improve travel between Kendall and Logan via some form of public transportation.
The MBTA is in crisis. Let’s treat it that way.
AT A CRITICAL moment in Shakespeare’s King Lear, the raging, aging king bellows into the fury of a great storm, defying nature to “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! . . . spout till you have drenched our steeples.” He goes on a while in this manner, venting his anger against the treachery […]
Are we being ‘yessed to death’ on Red-Blue connector?
MY MOTHER was a very exacting person, and I can remember times when she asked me to do something that I really didn’t want to do (most likely attend a family gathering I’d rather avoid). I would say “alright Ma, OK,” and she would look me in the eye and say “Don’t ‘yes’ me to […]