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Pages tagged "Transit press"

Suffolk DA will not bring criminal charges in BU professor’s death at JFK/UMass station

By Anonymous | Jan 21, 2022

“I don’t necessarily think that criminal charges would have resolved the underlying chronic, systemic issues within the state agencies that were involved with this,” Thompson said in an interview. “Typically, you only see criminal charges if there are one or two people who are verifiably involved. It’s just much harder to prosecute something that is about a system failure.”

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‘Woefully insufficient:’ Advocates fume after new T proposal doesn’t include new low-income fare

By Anonymous | Jan 20, 2022

“This is woefully insufficient and hugely disappointing,” said Stacy Thompson, executive director of LivableStreets Alliance. “I don’t see how they can justify these actions.”

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Bike lane backlash pushes Cambridge to consult with small business owners

By Anonymous | Jan 11, 2022

Nonprofit Livable Streets’ executive director Stacy Thompson said on Boston Public Radio last week that bike- and bus-focused projects typically boost business.

“The data shows that two-thirds or more of people going to these businesses live in that community, walk, take bikes there or take transit,” Thompson said. “Where we’ve put down bus priority projects and bike projects, business has gone up for a lot of folks, because you have more people who can get to that business.

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175 ‘MBTA Communities’ will have to start increasing multi-family zoning this year

By Anonymous | Jan 08, 2022

Stacy Thompson of the LivableStreets Alliance said the draft guidelines on the whole appear to do good, but she took issue with the fact that the plan doesn’t require a certain percentage of the units be affordable.

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Suffolk District Attorney Rollins launches criminal probe into MBTA

By Anonymous | Jan 06, 2022

“The system had to fail at multiple levels for this to happen,” said Stacy Thompson, executive director of LivableStreets Alliance. “It is frustrating that perhaps the only mechanism we have to deal with chronic lack of oversight is the DA taking this step . . . People cannot be getting hurt on our systems anymore.”

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Boston Public Radio Full Show: Jan. 3, 2022

By Anonymous | Jan 03, 2022

Jim Aloisi and Stacy Thompson talked about Mayor Michelle Wu’s transit agenda, including free fare pilot programs, and the problems with parking in the city. Aloisi is the former Massachusetts transportation secretary, a member of the Transit Matters board and contributor to Commonwealth Magazine. Thompson is executive director of Livable Streets.

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Boston’s fare-free bus pilot program sets the stage for transit equity, advocates say

By Anonymous | Jan 03, 2022

Following Boston City Council’s approval of Mayor Michelle Wu’s $8 million free bus expansion proposal last month, transit advocates Jim Aloisi and Stacy Thompson joined Boston Public Radio on Monday to share how the two-year pilot program could spur change across the transit sector.

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Fed Transpo Aid Raises Vision Question For State

By Anonymous | Dec 09, 2021
"Whether or not we use this money in a transformative way is entirely contingent on if the Legislature can get its act together," said Stacy Thompson, executive director of the LivableStreets Alliance.
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Now we’re getting somewhere with free public transit

By Anonymous | Dec 04, 2021

“Two years ago, we put out a paper saying it’s cheap and makes good economic sense to make buses free, and everybody thought we were crazy,” said Stacy Thompson, head of the safe-transit group Livable Streets Alliance. “Now we’re seeing it happen.”

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Why we need the dedicated bus lanes on North Massachusetts Avenue

By Anonymous | Dec 03, 2021

This is why we need dedicated bus lanes, separate from normal vehicle lanes: They speed up the bus and reduce variability for a very large number of people at once, even if the number of vehicles is small. In the end, people are important, not vehicles.

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