Transportation

Cahir died unexpectedly Wednesday at age 72. Though he served in the House for 14 years after his election in 1985, he was known for much more than that, local leaders say.

New electric buses will help reduce the ferry line's carbon footprint.

House members from Cape Cod have filed a bill to require the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to open commuter rail service from South Station to Buzzards Bay within a year of the bill’s passage.

The proposed Bourne Rail Trail has received an offer of $20 million in federal stimulus money from the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority. That’s nearly enough to build the entire trail, according to the Friends of the Bourne Rail Trail — but only if the trail is built to a less expensive design than planned, with the trail replacing the railroad tracks instead of running alongside them.

The Steamship Authority is making a significant investment in cleaner technology for the buses it uses to transport passengers to and from its ferry terminals in Woods Hole and Hyannis.

Barnstable planners unveil final designs for restriping and rerouting downtown streets.

At a sold-out event, Martha’s Vineyard residents heard about what it would take to bring electric ferry service to the island — and why it may not be so easy.

Plans are underway to replace the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges, as we've been reporting here on CAI. Every year there are about 38 million car trips across the bridges, and those cars often carry one or two people at a time. So this made Eve Zuckoff wonder what the new bridges could mean for public transportation and whether they could encourage people to make greener trips to the region.

We hear from Jim Aloisi, a former Massachusetts transportation secretary, and other transit advocates about ways to prevent additional traffic congestion from coming to Cape Cod.

Three designs are being considering to replace the aging Cape Cod Canal bridges. Only one features an arch that resembles the existing Sagamore and Bourne bridges.