Meghan Volcy
@meghanvolcy.bsky.social
inconsistently consistent. everything is political. Malden, Boston, and the rest of it. work: education and transportation policy (StreetsblogMASS) me: she/her/hers
Local Planner’s Design Prize Victory Will Give Malden’s @b2ctrails.bsky.social Bike Kitchen Space to Grow Read the story from @meghanvolcy.bsky.social: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/05/07/l...
Local Planner's Design Prize Victory Will Give Malden's Bike Kitchen Space to Grow - Streetsblog Massachusetts
A local transportation planner has won an international grant competition with her designs to upgrade the Bike to the Sea Bike Kitchen along the Northern Strand Trail in Malden.
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ICYMI: Reporter @meghanvolcy.bsky.social talked with educators about a state grant program to fund bike racks at schools. The program helps students to begin the day on a “healthy note,” says Brian Miller, principal of Memorial Elementary School in Hopedale. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/03/05/s...
Six Mass. Schools Step Up Their Bike Parking Game with New Safe Routes to School Grant - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Six schools across Massachusetts are the new recipients of the 2025-2026 Bike Rack Grant out of MassDOT’s Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program. The Bike Rack Grant, now in its second second year, aims...
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For more context, read @meghanvolcy.bsky.social's report from earlier this month: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/01/16/m...
MBTA Communities Act Holdouts Are Losing State Funding - Streetsblog Massachusetts
"We will take action as appropriate by the end of the month" against towns that maintain segregationist zoning rules in violation of state law, warns Attorney General Andrea Campbell.
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AG Andrea Joy Campbell@massago.bsky.social · 6mo agoMassachusetts is in a housing crisis – every community in the state has a responsibility to step up and do their part. The courts have been clear: compliance with the MBTA Communities Law is mandatory. My office will assist any town working to come into compliance.
Reporter @meghanvolcy.bsky.social has a summary of last night's State of the Commonwealth speech: Healey’s ‘State of the Commonwealth’ Boasts About @mbta.com Turnaround, Promises to Fill Budget Shortfall - #mapoli mass.streetsblog.org/2026/01/23/h...
Healey's 'State of the Commonwealth' Boasts About MBTA Turnaround, Promises to Fill Budget Shortfall - Streetsblog Massachusetts
"We’re going to close the T’s budget gap so Phil and his team can keep cookin’," the Governor promised.
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MBTA Communities Act Holdouts Are Losing State Funding - by @meghanvolcy.bsky.social #mapoli mass.streetsblog.org/2026/01/16/m...
MBTA Communities Act Holdouts Are Losing State Funding - Streetsblog Massachusetts
"We will take action as appropriate by the end of the month" against towns that maintain segregationist zoning rules in violation of state law, warns Attorney General Andrea Campbell.
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Reporter @meghanvolcy.bsky.social has a new in-depth profile of @cambbikesafety.bsky.social, and how it became a force to be reckoned with in the city's politics: For Cambridge Bike Safety, the Political is Personal - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/10/23/f... #mapoli #cambma
For Cambridge Bike Safety, the Political is Personal - Streetsblog Massachusetts
With year-round organizing, Cambridge Bike Safety helps bike-friendly candidates win local elections and advance their agenda for safer streets.
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Rearranging the Cabinet: Transportation Sec. Monica Tibbits-Nutt Stepping Down, Replaced By MBTA GM Phillip Eng - from @meghanvolcy.bsky.social: #mapoli mass.streetsblog.org/2025/10/16/r...
Rearranging the Cabinet: Transportation Sec. Monica Tibbits-Nutt Stepping Down, Replaced By MBTA GM Phillip Eng - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Secretary of Transportation Monica Tibbits-Nutt is leaving the Healey administration. Governor Maura Healey announced this morning in a press release that Tibbits-Nutt will be stepping down from her p...
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Roadway violence victims' family members rebuke politicians for campaigning against safety: "Some Boston-area political candidates are ignoring the overwhelming research consensus on bike lanes" #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/11/o...
Our loved ones died biking in Cambridge last year. Boston-area candidates need to follow the facts on bike lanes. - The Boston Globe
Some candidates are displaying a staggering lack of regard for people who cycle, victims of traffic violence, and everyone who cares about safer roads.
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Malden Debates a New Greenway To Connect the Northern Strand Through Its Downtown - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/07/18/m...
Malden Debates a New Greenway To Connect the Northern Strand Through Its Downtown - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The City of Malden is making plans to connect the western part of the city that a river once flowed through to the Northern Strand Community Trail via a new shared-use path – but one city councilor is...
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Congress voted to cut all federal funds for public media. For WBUR, it means we'll lose at least $1.6 million annually. Yet the news won't stop, and neither will we. Our commitment to thoughtful, fair and trustworthy coverage is undiminished. But we need your help.
From the CEO: Congress defunds public media
The latest announcements and updates from WBUR
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
How Mobility Affects Housing, Health, and Freedom in a Modern World - Part 3 in reporter @meghanvolcy.bsky.social's series on Black history and transportation justice: mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/26/b...
Black Transportation Justice: How Mobility Affects Housing, Health, and Freedom in a Modern World - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Part 3 in a three-part series.
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TONIGHT: MassDOT Hosts Online Hearing for Mystic River Car-Free Bridge Project - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/24/t...
Tonight: MassDOT Hosts Online Hearing for Mystic River Car-Free Bridge Project - Streetsblog Massachusetts
MassDOT will host a virtual public hearing this evening for a project that would install a new car-free bridge over the Mystic River from Draw Seven Park in Somerville to the Encore Casino riverwalk i...
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Throughout the 20th century, Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor and feminism along the way. Part 2 of @meghanvolcy.bsky.social's series on Black transportation justice: mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/24/b...
Black Transportation Justice: A Closer Look at Intersectional Labor Movements - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Throughout the 20th century, Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor and feminism along the way.
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Legislature’s Fair Share Budget Compromise Gets @mbta.com Closer to A Balanced Budget #mapoli mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/17/l...
For #Juneteenth, reporter @meghanvolcy.bsky.social has produced a three-part series on the link between Black history and transportation justice. Read part one here: mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/20/b...
Black Transportation Justice: From Forced Movement to Freedom - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Part one of a three-part series.
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During a phone hearing on Friday, Judge Michael Farbiarz of the U.S. District Court for New Jersey said that the government's attempt to continue to detain Khalil was "highly, highly, highly unusual."
Judge orders release of Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil
Khalil will be released on bail while his case challenging his deportation orders plays out in the courts.
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Remember that authoritarians are always trying to create crises or take advantage of existing crises as a "state of exception," which gives them more power and abrogates any established restraints.
I don’t mean to be sarcastic about this but every columnist, political scientist, and law professor who ever bought into these people being federalists should be spaced
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last yr.Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
@mbta.com Hosts Its First Public Hearing for Lynnway Redesign Project - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/13/m...
MBTA Hosts Its First Public Hearing for Lynnway Redesign Project - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Nearly three years after winning a $20 million federal grant, the MBTA hosted its first public forum on Wednesday evening for a proposed transit-focused redesign of the Lynnway, a major highway that s...
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Column: What Does the Freedom of Movement Really Mean? By @meghanvolcy.bsky.social - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/13/c...
Column: What Does the Freedom of Movement Really Mean? Reflections from the Youth Bike Summit - Streetsblog Massachusetts
While dozens of young people, many of them young people of color, celebrated each others’ accomplishments at the Youth Bike Summit earlier this month, there was also a heaviness at the weekend’s event...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Judge says Trump illegally called up National Guard to assist with LA protests and must return control to governor.
Mamdani is now ahead of Cuomo with just two weeks until the Democratic NYC mayoral primary, a new poll found.
Mamdani surges in new poll, leading Cuomo for first time in New York mayor's race
The former governor has topped every voter survey since entering the race, but the democratic socialist is gaining on him.
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We just published a detailed recap of the 2025 Youth Bike Summit from reporter @meghanvolcy.bsky.social – mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/11/t...
The Kids Are Alright: A Weekend of Connection, Curiosity, and Collective Action at the Youth Bike Summit - Streetsblog Massachusetts
In the last weekend of May, young people and their adult allies from all over the country came together at Roxbury Community College for this year’s Youth Bike Summit, hosted by the Youth Bike Council...
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Protected bike lanes have a near-magical ability to produce cyclists. This new study of 28 US cities finds that census block groups w/protected bike lanes expanded bike commuting almost 2x faster than those w/standard bike lanes & >4x faster than those w/o new lanes. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Reason #4575335531 that my boycott is permanent. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...
Target Lets Go Pair of Executives Who Had Supported DEI Programs
Target Corp., facing financial headwinds and pushback over its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, has dismissed two executives who have backed DEI efforts, including a chief legal and compl...
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the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies
George Pearkes@peark.es · last yr.*US ORDERS HALT TO STUDENT VISA INTERVIEWS: POLITICO
Breaking news: A group of nearly 50 White South Africans landed as refugees Monday, coming to the U.S. under a humanitarian designation meant for people fleeing war or persecution that the Trump administration has suspended for all other groups worldwide.
White South Africans arrive at Dulles as refugees under Trump order
The arrival of 49 Afrikaners under an executive order that alleges they’ve faced racial discrimination restarts refugee admissions that were suspended for all other groups by the Trump administration.
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