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April 22, 2020 By IÑAKI ESTÍVALIZ

AN MBTA BUS DRIVER GETS BACK ON THE ROAD AFTER A TWO-WEEK QUARANTINE

coronavirus MBTA

“We should only be able to have seven passengers on the bus so they can keep that amount of distance between them. But that is not happening.”

Filed Under: Pandemic Democracy Project, Reporting, Reports, Transportation Tagged With: Boston, bus, Cambridge, coronavirus, COVID, labor, news, slider, train, transit, transportation, unions

March 4, 2020 By DAN ATKINSON

MORE ETA, LESS WTF

This marketing company with political ties is getting paid millions to “humanize” the MBTA brand

Filed Under: Reports, Transportation Tagged With: accountability, Blue Line, Charlie Baker, condembta, delays, Governor Baker, marketing, MBTA, money, Orange Line, privatization, red line, T, transit, transportation

May 15, 2019 By BINJ ONLINE

NOW YOU CAN READ BINJ TRANSIT JOURNALISM IN THE METRO

We are excited to announce that BINJ will now be reaching several hundred thousand additional readers on certain weeks through a new partnership with the Metro.

Filed Under: Transportation Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Metro, MBTA, metro, partnerships, transit, transit reporting, transportation

March 13, 2019 By JASON PRAMAS

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN AN AGE OF EXISTENTIAL THREATS

Jason Pramas and Amy Carter at the “Northampton 15” CIA Off Campus Trial in Northampton, MA on April 8, 1987. Stills from WGBH archival video, courtesy of the Boston TV News Digital Library.

IMAGE: Jason Pramas and Amy Carter at the “Northampton 15” CIA Off Campus Trial in Northampton, MA on April 8, 1987. Stills from WGBH archival video, courtesy of the Boston TV News Digital Library. This week, a reminder that politics is not a spectator sport. I was listening to a recent Noam Chomsky appearance on […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, Column, Councilor Michelle Wu, democracy, ecology, Environment, existential threat, global warming, housing, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, MBTA, Noam Chomsky, nuclear war, Nuclear Weapons, Occupy, political activism, politics, Ralph Nader, Rep. Mike Connolly, transportation

August 16, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY

It was vexing to watch Bird fans that clearly hadn’t even bothered to read the article in question—let alone my broad and deep back catalog—attack me as some kind of car-loving anti-environmental reactionary in the service of flogging their hipster transportation fetish du jour.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: accident, Alphabet, Apparent Horizon, bicycle, bike, Bird Rides, boat, bus, car, Climate Change, Column, development, ecology, electric, Environment, global warming, golf cart, Google, Health, housing, Jason Pramas, Jump Bikes, Lime, Lyft, monorail, motorcycle, municipal, news, planning, policy, politics, prevention, public, robot, safety, scooter, Spin, train, transportation, Uber, urban, vehicle sharing

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