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https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/05/21/mbta-seeks-vendor-input-for-possible-platform-screen-door-pilot-program

We've got two electric bus stories this morning: https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/05/11/photos-a-hard-hat-tour-of-the-mbtas-new-electric-bus-garages https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/05/11/the-ts-new-electric-buses-will-still-belch-diesel-fumes-for-winter-heat

I'm going to chime in here, because we categorically are not "intentionally lying" and I strongly disagree with the characterization that our reporting is "sensationalist." @Stlin is correct, there is quite a bit of nuance in the budget (maybe too much nuance for an internet forum), and we...

Can confirm – this agenda item is for the Ruggles station project. It was also on the PIC agenda two weeks ago for a first reading, and had also caught my eye back then.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/25/mbta-teaming-up-with-maryland-to-procure-new-battery-electric-trains

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/04/city-of-boston-restarts-rutherford-avenue-design-as-funding-deadline-looms

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/03/fares-frozen-south-stations-new-faregates-are-already-out-of-service

Per TransitMatters new trains tracker, looks like three of those sets are 4-car trains, so they're using the same number of cars (36) as they would with 6 full-length trains.

An update on Boston's center-running bus lane projects, which spent most of Mayor Wu's first term in planning limbo: https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/19/bostons-bus-lane-projects-are-stuck-in-red-tape-leaving-riders-stuck-in-traffic

Bus trips on Boston's 10 highest-ridership routes take, on average, 15 percent longer than they did when Mayor Wu took office 4 years ago, and some of the worst slowdowns have been on fare-free routes through predominantly Black neighborhoods in Roxbury and Dorchester...

Construction photos from the Southampton Yard expansion project, which is being built to accommodate the new Airo trainsets: https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/11/photos-amtraks-583-million-project-to-upgrade-its-boston-maintenance-facilities

The T says that accessibility rules required them to block access to the platform that's most easily accessible to the station building in their Worcester Union Station project: https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/10/07/a-new-fence-welcomes-t-riders-to-worcesters-union-station

That was one of the recommendations from the so-called "30 day review" of bike lanes that the city did earlier this year: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25878537-mike-brohelcity-of-boston-30-day-street-project-review-memo-april-3-2025/#document/p2

Some more detail and context about the Zebras on Arlington: https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/09/30/boston-tries-out-better-barriers-to-sub-for-battered-bollards