SCHEDULED ROAD, bridge, and transit shutdowns to improve transportation—as in the case of the Sumner Tunnel, which will be closed for four months in the summer of 2023—are a necessary evil of infrastructure maintenance, inevitably resulting in a chorus of thousands of grumbling travelers. But during recent scheduled Blue Line diversions between Maverick and Bowdoin […]
Adrian Madaro
Posted inTransportation
EJ communities need rep on new T board
DUE TO STRONG support from transit riders and workers, the Massachusetts Legislature recently took a huge step forward to ensure racial equity and environmental justice in the Commonwealth’s largest transit authority — and now Gov. Charlie Baker has an opportunity to listen to communities of color and do the right thing. For months, riders and workers […]
Posted inOpinion
Baker not doing enough on environmental justice
ONE EVENING IN 2007, Chelsea, East Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester residents packed Chelsea High School auditorium with signs that read “Clean Air is a Human Right” and “Got Asthma?” They assembled to fight back against a proposed diesel power plant, to be sited 250 feet from Chelsea’s only elementary school complex and on the banks […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion
Let’s make Logan Airport a fair wage zone
LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT is a critical hub in Massachusetts that serves more than 20 million passengers a year and brings in more than $7 billion in economic activity to the area. However, despite Logan’s vast financial impact on our Commonwealth, many of its aviation service workers do not reap the benefits. New England’s largest airport […]