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By EMILY THURLOW

AMHERST — After months of searching for a home for a Craig’s Doors shelter guest who uses state rental vouchers, Jack Myers was excited to find an available unit and set up a tour.However, when Myers arrived to tour the rental unit, the guest was...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Supporters of enhanced passenger rail service in western Massachusetts packed the Senior Center Tuesday to testify before the legislative commission studying the project’s governance and funding.From as far afield as Greenfield, Palmer...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — As four commuter rail projects in various stages in the state’s western counties continue to advance, members of a new commission this week highlighted the connectivity and economic prosperity that they believe expanding passenger service...

By BELLA LEVAVI

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation shared two options for providing passenger rail service from North Adams to Greenfield and Boston during a virtual workshop on Wednesday, with price tags ranging from $1.044 billion to $2.187 billion.With...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Five months after a city couple was struck and killed by a vehicle along Route 10, state transportation officials said this week that a major redesign of the busy corridor — home to numerous accidents over the years — is in the...

By Declan Langton

A month after selling out trial runs offering bus service from New York to Amherst and from Boston to Northampton, a regional transportation company that specializes in intercity and charter bus trips is now offering these routes on a permanent basis....

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — The Registry of Motor Vehicles now has another tool to track out-of-state driving records, an area where gaps in the past have been tied to tragic results.Over the weekend of June 25 and 26, the RMV tested and successfully rolled out a new...

It should come as no surprise that the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority was forced to make service reductions on bus routes as it faced a $1.2 million budget shortfall heading into the new fiscal year. For one, the state has failed to meet a...

By SARAH GARDNER

NORTHAMPTON — A woman walked past a Chevrolet Bolt on display in the Northampton Radio Group parking lot and glanced under the hood. Then she immediately did a double take.“It’s a little weird, isn’t it?” Rie Traub, 46, said. “You look at it and...

By Rebecca Mullen

SPRINGFIELD — After weeks of rising alarm over its proposed route cuts, the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority advisory board on Wednesday adopted a revised plan to eliminate four of its 63 bus routes and reduce service to nine more. Spared the ax were...

By Sarah Gardner

SPRINGFIELD — They came with a simple message for Pioneer Valley Transit Authority: Give us more bus options, not less.As the PVTA’s advisory board prepared to meet Wednesday in Springfield, 16 people stood outside to protest proposed cuts to bus...

By JACK SUNTRUP

Two Massachusetts state senators told the Gazette Monday lawmakers would need to “get to the bottom” of why a proposed high-speed rail study was stripped from the state’s budget in closed-door negotiations last week. The $40.2 billion spending...

There’s an old saying that a leader always should try to leave a place better than he or she found it. That’s exactly what Mary MacInnes did as longtime administrator of the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority — and then some.MacInnes, who retired April...

By GAZETTE STAFF

NORTHAMPTON — Traffic on Interstate 91 through Northampton will be constricted this week as Massachusetts Department of Transportation crews work on road and bridge repairs.One northbound lane and one southbound lane will be closed between 8 a.m. and...