Transportation

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will temporarily eliminate its local Framingham trains and alter its Worcester express services due to staffing shortages related to the surge in COVID-19 cases, according to a Thursday announcement from the MBTA.

In 2021, Massachusetts had the seventh highest rate of residents moving out of the state, according to Monday’s annual report from United Van Lines, a Missouri-based moving service which tracks national moving patterns.

As it aims for Massachusetts to phase out sales of traditional gas-powered medium- and heavy-duty vehicles over the next three decades, the Baker administration is adopting greenhouse gas emissions standards and regulations from California meant to accelerate the switch to electric vehicles.

The Worcester Regional Transit Authority announced Tuesday on Twitter routes and bus schedules are being altered due to a severe shortage of bus drivers.

Worcester Regional Airport has been allocated just over $1.3 million of the $48 million funneling into Massachusetts airports through the federal Airport Infrastructure Grants program, the state’s congressional delegation announced in a press release on Friday.

Every year, WBJ's editorial staff makes 10 predictions for news events in the coming year. Turns out, 2021 was almost impossible to predict, as we got three right.

Darkening an already-grim financial picture, MBTA officials on Thursday projected the agency's expenses will grow faster than revenues until fiscal 2027, at which point ridership still will not bring in as many dollars as before COVID-19 hit.

The Herb Chambers auto dealership chain is seeking permission to open a Mercedes-Benz dealership at 141 Boston Post Road in Sudbury, near a small cluster of pre-existing Herb-Chambers dealerships.

Patrick Subaru in Shrewsbury is moving to a new site two miles down the road from its current location to develop a larger facility, according to a press release from the auto dealership.

A passenger rail link between Boston and western Massachusetts is "one of the most essential infrastructure investments we anticipate making" now that a federal infrastructure package has been signed into law, Congressman Richard Neal said Thursday.