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CITY’S FREE TAXI SERVICE SUPPORTS TRAVEL DURING THE PANDEMIC

The program was established to help residents access food and health services.

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN July 13, 2021

Somerville Live Wire - Episode 4 - YouTube 2021-06-08 10-43-30

VIDEO: SOMERVILLE’S ‘CORRIDOR OF DEATH’

Somerville Live Wire — Episode 4 Episode 4 discusses the Somerville “Corridor of Death”—McGrath Highway between Broadway and Route 38/Mystic Ave.—and how community advocates are fighting to make it safer for pedestrians and bikers. Guests: Wig Zamore of Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership and Community Assessment of Freeway Exposures and Health

SOMERVILLE WIRE STAFF June 3, 2021

SOMERVILLE WIRE: April 20, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

The reopening process continues, Bluebikes offer free rides to vaccine appointments, and the Somerville Arts Council makes spaces available to artists.

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN April 20, 2021

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

“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.”

IÑAKI ESTÍVALIZ April 22, 2020

MORE ETA, LESS WTF

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

DAN ATKINSON March 4, 2020

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.

BINJ ONLINE May 15, 2019

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.

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

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

JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2019

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.

JASON PRAMAS August 16, 2018

FLIPPING US THE BIRD

Bird’s model looks to be entirely profit-driven and completely mean-spirited. No matter how much CEO Travis VanderZanden tries to equate the unasked-for and unwanted service to “freedom.”

JASON PRAMAS July 25, 2018

STOP BAKER’S ‘MORE SCHOOL COPS AND SURVEILLANCE’ PLAN

Why the Mass budget surplus is better spent on infrastructure needs

JASON PRAMAS July 17, 2018