Orange Line service will be suspended between the Oak Grove and Back Bay stations for 11 days due to track and signal upgrades. Here's what to know.

The Orange Line is about to shut down for 11 days. Here’s what to know. - The Boston Globe

The shutdown marks the second major subway service suspension this August after the earlier Green Line shutdown.

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Watching Moonfall for the first time, this movie is amazing and everyone needs to see it

We're 88.2% of the way to $200,000 with 19 days to go! The final 11.8% buys direct mail to voters who don't always turn out in primaries and streaming TV ads. If you've been meaning to give, this is the sign you were waiting for! secure.actblue.com/donate/burha...

Reposting now that I am squinting correctly at the legend: Cambridge has a lower drive-to-work mode share of any city *including new york*

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · 3d ago

The share of workers commuting by transit declined dramatically in most big US cities from the 2015–19 census data to the 2020–24 data. What gives? Many more people working from home. As a result, fewer people are now driving to work than in the past! www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/us-...

MassDOT’s Riverfront Interchange Plans In Cambridge Get a Little Smaller mass.streetsblog.org/2026/08/13/m...

MassDOT's Riverfront Interchange Plans In Cambridge Get a Little Smaller - Streetsblog Massachusetts

Engineers acknowledge that the Reid overpass, where Memorial Drive meets the Boston University Bridge, is "outdated and no longer reflects current best practices for safety, efficiency, or multimodal ...

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Here’s a contest: What’s the most NIMBY big city in America, Boston v LA

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · last wk.

Nithya Raman has been removed as chair of Los Angeles City Council's housing committee, to be replaced by a member who, in a pro-housing forum no less, thoughtlessly bragged about how she reduced the scale of an affordable housing project. Truly insane.

@boston.gov Is On the Verge of Cancelling Privately-Funded Safety Improvements For Deadly East Boston Roadway mass.streetsblog.org/2026/08/11/c...

City Hall Is On the Verge of Cancelling Privately-Funded Safety Improvements For Deadly East Boston Roadway - Streetsblog Massachusetts

The developers of a new apartment building near Day Square had been planning to build traffic-calming safety improvements on a segment of Bennington Street in East Boston. A new plan to cancel those i...

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The data show that Somerville and Cambridge increased bike ridership while reducing crashes involving bikes. Boston reversed it's progress on this front in 2025.

Safer Streets Now: How Brookline Can Learn from its Neighbors to Achieve Vision Zero — Brookline Insights

Somerville, Cambridge, and Boston offer insights as Brookline strives to eliminate crashes resulting in deaths and serious injuries.

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People who aren't from Massachusetts must be mystified by our state's collective obsession with a grocery chain

Wow. Mayor Wu's office is planning to cancel _another_ approved+funded street safety improvement. So much for her teary promise that anything would change. This is by the hand of Gove (again), whom Wu demoted but did not fire. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/08/11/c...

City Hall Is On the Verge of Cancelling Privately-Funded Safety Improvements For Deadly East Boston Roadway - Streetsblog Massachusetts

The developers of a new apartment building near Day Square had been planning to build traffic-calming safety improvements on a segment of Bennington Street in East Boston. A new plan to cancel those i...

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Extremely nerdy MBTA trivia question: what is the only T bus route with an OUTBOUND terminus in Boston and an INBOUND terminus NOT in Boston? (and if you can think of one other than the one I’m thinking of, that’s even better!)

NBER@nber.org · last wk.

Expanding H-1B visas boosted US worker incomes and productivity, especially in non-STEM jobs, with gains flowing downstream via supply chains, from Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, Ahmet Gulek, and Jens Hainmueller www.nber.org/papers/w35560

Cummings Hwy. protected bike lane should be finished soon.

The U.S. economy is officially losing jobs. From lost manufacturing to higher costs, the economic failures of the Trump administration keep piling up. There’s no way to spin these dismal results, because Americans know they’re paying the price every day.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

Breaking News: U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs in July, and hiring in previous months was revised down sharply.

Your reminder that ICE vehicle sales peaked in 2017

International Energy Agency@iea.org · last wk.

Despite a challenging backdrop for the global car market, electric car sales rebounded sharply in Q2 2026. Record quarterly sales in 50 countries have lifted the outlook, with EVs now expected to account for 29% of all cars sold this year 👉 iea.li/4pPLITc

Over the last decade, Austin rents went up 93%. It was one of the worst rent spikes of any major American city. Then Austin changed its rules.

Cambridge and especially Cambridgeport folks - I'm planning to attend this meeting at the Morse School tonight: www.mass.gov/event/cambri...

If you cut me off while I’m in a crosswalk and I’m close enough to touch your car, you better believe I’m slapping it. This is queen sh** from Boston City Councilor Durkan. 🔥🔥🔥

“In some ways this is inevitable,” Azeem told Cambridge Day. “It just reaffirms what we already know, (Barber) is the statehouse candidate. Which isn’t necessarily a negative … I think it’s just unfortunate that you get rewarded for not questioning the system.” www.cambridgeday.com/2026/08/05/h...

Gov. Healey endorses Barber in 2nd Middlesex

It's the second significant endorsement in two days for Barber in the race to replace state Sen. Pat Jehlen.

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You're paying $2,358 in federal taxes for Trump's mass deportations. @epi.org 's new calculator shows what your community could have instead www.epi.org/deportation-...

Our members voted, and we're proud to endorse @evanforcambridge.bsky.social for the 25th Middlesex. #mapoli

Biking to Assembly Row? They responded to feedback about needing information about bike parking and have created a map: www.assemblyconnect.com/brochures Also, did you know they have a public indoor parking for bikes?!

After over a year spent engaging community members, analyzing traffic patterns and signal options, testing emergency and public transit operations, and finalizing plans, the City is set to begin implementing a new, safer street design later this month or early August.

2 years of doing nothing and ripping out bike lane protection and cancelling projects THE TIME YOU WASTED COSTS LIVES "Wu said. “And I am angry that, for all that we are standing on the values that we have, that you don’t have enough time to try to move as fast as you can possibly move.”"

#NoMoreGhostBikes

Boston street safety advocates keep pressure on city leaders in the wake of cyclist's death

Bike safety advocates say theyare more motivated than ever press city leaders for improvements after the loss of transportation planer Louisa Gag.

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Boston Critical Mass. Ride For Louisa. #NoMoreGhostBikes

Just Beacon St and Tremont St left and Wu can get back to the level of bike infrastructure built by the Kim Janey administration

Peter Cheung@bostonaruban.bsky.social · 2w ago

Flexposts are back on Arlington street along the Public Garden.

pleased to announce the Winner of Bluesky

Phone bank in Jamaica Plain, community social in Roslindale planned to help Haitians facing loss of, well, everything www.universalhub.com/2026/phone-b... #Boston #immigrants

Side guards save lives. But wait, what’s a side guard?