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Pot board high on Worcester

Economy/ Marijuana/ Technology

Pot board high on Worcester

Cannabis commission to locate main office in central Mass.

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THE STATE BOARD regulating the legal marijuana industry will set up permanent shop in Worcester as its headquarters with a satellite office in Boston. The five-member Cannabis Control Commission on Tuesday voted unanimously to seek a 13,000-square foot office space in the state’s second largest city and find a smaller, 5,000-square foot office in the(...)

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DOT notes: Big rail projects and small bridges

Tracking Transportation/ Economy/ Environment/ Technology/ Transportation

DOT notes: Big rail projects and small bridges

Officials also making efforts to coordinate projects to minimize disruptions

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SOUTH COAST RAIL project officials said phasing in the new line by running it through Middleboro not only gets the service operating years ahead of time, it gives the line a head start on the full build-out without adding to the projected $3.2 billion cost. In a presentation Monday to a joint meeting of the(...)

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Free bump on the Fairmount

Politics/ The Back Story/ Transportation

Free bump on the Fairmount

Ridership rises during free period, falls back afterward

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Even two weeks of free rides on the Fairmount Line didn’t boost traffic that much, but they did expose more people to the least-used line on the MBTA’s commuter rail system. The Fairmount Line, which connects South Station and Readville via Dorchester, Hyde Park, and Mattapan, has by far the worst ridership of any of(...)

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The Download/ Politics

Penn Station debate offers lessons for Boston

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New York City is having its own North-South Rail Link debate, just on a much bigger scale. State and federal agencies in New York are pushing for a $20 billion Gateway Tunnel project that would add more tunnels under the Hudson River and new tracks at Penn Station. But a Manhattan think tank called ReThink(...)

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South Station commuter rail accident unreported

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South Station commuter rail accident unreported

Train hit safety stop but incident compared to fatal NJ crash

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A PREVIOUSLY UNREPORTED incident in which a commuter rail train that struck a bumper at South Station was similar to an accident in Hoboken, NJ, earlier in the fall that killed one person and injured 100 more, said the MBTA’s top safety official. Ronald Nickle, the T’s chief safety officer, said had the train been(...)

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