Transportation

Every December, the WBJ Editorial staff predicts possible news events for the coming year. Here are our predictions and why they will happen.

After an election cycle where ride-hailing and food delivery drivers' rights were originally planned to be on the ballot, drivers for apps such as Uber, Lyft, Doordash and Instacart joined with labor advocate allies to attempt to reinvigorate calls for a union ahead of the new legislative session set to start in two weeks.

The average gas price now sits at $3.44 a gallon. That is down 38 cents from just a month ago ($3.82), and 5 cents higher than this time last year.

The average price of a gallon of gas fell 12 cents in Massachusetts over the past week.

Boston real estate investment firm The Seyon Group purchased a 275,620 square-foot warehouse in Lancaster for $48 million from Foxborough-based The Kraft Group.

Trivia question: What $160-million public facility opened in Worcester’s Canal District in 2021?

The Worcester Business Journal partnered with the nonprofit Worcester Regional Research Bureau on a new project examining how rent increases over the last decade have impacted the city and its businesses, as well as an historic look at how financial decisions rooted in racism 86 years ago have exacerbated the housing and workforce problems today.

The average cost for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Massachusetts has fallen by 10 cents in the last week, now at $3.66.

CarMax Auto Superstores, Inc., which has a location in Westborough, reached a multistate settlement of $1 million following an investigation into the company’s selling practices by a coalition of state attorneys general.

MassDevelopment made 18 grants totalling more than $1.5 million to businesses, cities, towns, and nonprofit organizations in Central Mass.