Transportation

Worcester saw a 49% growth of rideshares started in the city in 2018, but the city ranked behind other less populous areas in total rides and rides per capita despite being the second largest city in the state, according to data compiled by state officials. 

The Quest Logistics facility in Devens, the former AMSC headquarters, has been sold for $36.7 million to a Morgan Stanley subsidiary.

In a new report, the Worcester Regional Research Bureau said the WRTA should be free.

April's unemployment rate was down from 3.0% in March to 2.9% in April, which is the lowest rate since December 2000, according to state officials.

VERC Enterprises, a convenience and gasoline station operator headquartered in Duxbury, has acquired a new station in Westminster.

The MetroWest Regional Transit Authority is adding a shuttle between Marlborough and the Riverside Green Line station on the Green Line, and a shuttle for Natick software firm MathWorks.

Two lawmakers have pitched the Transportation Committee on studying an east-west passenger rail connection between Boston, Greenfield and North Adams.

Frustrated with a recent series of announcements, Boston-area employers are growing impatient with the MBTA and demanding that it consider "bolder solutions."

The MBTA's general manager wants to more gradually spread out capital spending to give the T more time to hire the people needed to oversee the work.

Gas prices are rising — they are up a dime over the last week in Massachusetts, tied for the third-highest nationally — and analysts said the prices "show no signs of slowing down."