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Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson called for a subpoena for Boston 2024 bid documents on Monday. PHOTO COURTESY TITO JACKSON

City councilor seeks subpoena for Boston 2024 bid documents

Mina Corpuz July 20, 2015

Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson held a press conference Monday on the steps of City Hall to call for a subpoena for Boston 2024 to release two un-redacted chapters from its original bid. Jackson...

CEO of Boston 2024, Richard Davey, sits in a city council meeting about operations financing and venue development Thursday. PHOTO BY AMANDA BURKE/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Financing, management on agenda at City Council meeting on 2024 Olympics

Amanda Burke June 27, 2015

Further exploring the possibility of hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics, the Boston City Council held a meeting Friday morning to review details of a new proposal from the organizing group Boston 2024...

Richard Davey, chief executive of Boston 2024, speaks at an Olympic Community Meeting Tuesday at Roxbury Community College. PHOTO BY NICKI GITTER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Fourth Olympic community meeting filled with demands for transparency, cooperation with community

Paige Smith April 29, 2015

The organizing group for the 2024 Summer Olympic host bid, Boston 2024, held its fourth community meeting at Roxbury Community College Tuesday evening. The meeting outlined the timeline for the Olympic...

Olympic organizing committee Boston 2024 announced Monday that it would only seek to host the 2024 Olympics if its final bid meets 10 criteria, including majority support in Massachusetts. PHOTO BY ERIN BILLINGS/DFP FILE PHOTO

Boston 2024 requiring public support to move forward with Olympic bid

Olivia Quintana March 25, 2015

Olympic organizing committee Boston 2024 printed a full-page advertisement in Monday’s copies of The Boston Globe and The Boston Herald, stating it would only seek to host the 2024 Summer Olympics if...

Hundreds of Boston residents attended the second Boston Olympics Community Meeting in South Boston Tuesday night. PHOTO BY OLEG TEPLYUK/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Hundreds gather at second Boston Olympics community meeting

Stephanie Pagones February 25, 2015

Approximately 300 members of the Greater Boston community convened Tuesday at South Boston’s James Condon Elementary School for the city’s second community meeting regarding Boston’s 2024 Olympic...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Alex Grinman and his father Vladimir Grinman launched Greenline, an app that tracks above-ground trains in real time, on Thursday. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY WILLA RUSOWICZ-ORAZEM/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Greenline app tracks location of MBTA Green Line

Chris Fergus February 17, 2015

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology senior released an iPhone real-time tracking app  for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line Thursday using data provided by the MBTA. The...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh speaks about issues surrounding the city’s bid for the 2024 Olympics at a community meeting at Suffolk University Law School Thursday night. PHOTO BY ERIN BILLINGS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Walsh, Boston 2024 hold first Olympic bid community meeting

Sekar Krisnauli February 6, 2015

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh met with local residents at Suffolk University’s School of Law for the first of nine Boston 2024 Olympic bid community meetings on Thursday night. The meeting addressed citizens’...

Richard Davey, Secretary of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, resigned Saturday to take time to be with family and explore new career options. PHOTO COURTESY OF MASSDOT

Richard Davey resigns, current highway administer steps in as acting secretary

Keela Sweeney November 6, 2014

After years of service to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Richard Davey left his post as secretary of MassDOT Friday. He held the position since 2011. Highway Administrator Frank DePaola...

First electronic message board installed by MBTA for aging Green Line

Daily Free Press Admin September 23, 2013

In order to update the oldest subway system in America, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority installed the first electronic message board on the Green Line on Thursday. “This really is...

House-passed tax plan receives veto threat from Gov.

Daily Free Press Admin April 7, 2013

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick threatened to veto a tax plan approved Thursday by the House of Representatives that would generate less money for transportation maintenance than his proposed budget, according...

EDIT: MBTA woes

Daily Free Press Admin November 12, 2012

Faced with a growing deficit, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is poised to increase fares and cut services in 2013, according to an article in The Boston Globe on Sunday. Fare increases...

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