Posted inOpinion, Transportation

Allston rail station 20 years in making

Last week, Gov. Deval Patrick joined officials from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the MBTA, the City of Boston, Harvard University, and other organizations to announce Boston’s next big transportation transformation project. The event focused on a preliminary understanding with Harvard for the construction of a new passenger rail station in Allston in connection with […]

Posted inOpinion, Politics, Transportation

Regional approach wrong road to take

I appreciate MassINC’s attention to the transportation issues currently facing Massachusetts. The think tank’s report, Next Stop, Massachusetts. Strategies to Build the Bay State’s Transportation Future and Keep our Economy Moving, focused on ways to improve the financing of transportation improvements.  The report tried to tackle some of the thorny problems that states across the […]