Mass. (WPRI) — The deadline has passed for MBTA communities to become compliant with a zoning law aimed at creating more housing in Massachusetts. The MBTA Communities Act was signed into law in 2021 ...

The MBTA Communities Law requires members to have a multifamily overlay zone. Some communities have called it an unfunded mandate. 75% of MBTA communities are following the law. The vast majority of ...

BILLERICA — Town Meeting representatives approved Billerica’s proposed zoning to comply with the MBTA Communities law ahead of the Dec. 31 deadline and with legal cases still pending in other ...

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority closed off voting on Friday for a contest to make a new map of the T, but whether the winner’s submission will be used as a new official map is still ...

The town of Marshfield says it will seek a court order to exempt it from compliance of a Massachusetts housing law until state funding is provided. This 2-1 decision by the town’s select board on ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

BOSTON — If MBTA overseers want to make more bus routes fare-free, the best approach would be to eliminate rider costs across the entire bus network rather than in a handful of locations, T staff ...

The first phase of the MBTA’s Better Bus Project will go into effect on Sunday, with major changes to several bus routes in the hopes of getting passengers where they want to go more quickly, ...