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Audio: A song for Boston drivers

Learn more about Boston Driving Blues, Bob Margolin's ode to fender benders and flying through yellow lights. He wrote it 1992 and it's truer than ever.

Few details, some curves in hunt for Mass. Pike budget

Consumers in Massachusetts will soon be paying a higher sales tax, in large part to avoid a $100 million toll hike on the Massachusetts Turnpike. So you would think it would be fairly easy to get some details on how the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority intends to spend all that money, along with the rest of its $430 million budget, gathered ...

Safety concerns about aging MBTA transit system

A couple of years ago, when I was interviewing an MBTA passenger on the Blue Line, she recounted riding the same cars when she was a child.

MBTA advisory board loses power

Anyone who follows the MBTA knows it can be difficult to gather and sort through information about the agency that millions depend on for bus and train rides.

Some questions and answers on fare hikes, long road to addressing MBTA's financial challenges

Soon, perhaps this week, a detailed debate over an MBTA fare hike will begin in earnest, following a prelude that has seemed as long and painful as the reconstruction of Kenmore Station.
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