Transportation

The Cape Cod Commission has partnered with the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority this month to launch a two-year transit needs assessment aimed at better understanding how public transportation is serving Cape Cod and how it can be improved for daily travelers.

Route 28 improvements in Chatham, Dennis, Harwich, and Yarmouth — plus a big change to a Provincetown street and intersection — are among more than 15 priorities in a draft of Cape Cod’s five-year capital plan for federal transportation spending.

On the platform in Fall River, Ollie Couto said he remembers trains in the city during his childhood in the 1950s, and he’s glad they’re back after all these years.

The region hasn’t had a train to Boston since the 1950s, when highways became king. Now, after more than three decades of political promises and $1 billion spent, South Coast Rail is scheduled to open Monday.

An official at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority tells CAI the Federal Railroad Administration gave the OK today.

An official at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said yesterday that the Federal Railroad Administration still needs to greenlight a plan for speed limits along the route.

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.