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What $8 Billion Could Do For Mass. Highways And Public Transit
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This is the Radio Boston rundown for August 11, 2021. Tiziana Dearing is our host.
- In Lawrence, some nightclubs are serving a new kind of shot this month. Starting this weekend, city officials are setting up mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinics outside of popular hotspots in a push to increase the vaccination rate among young people. It's just one example of a bigger push in central Massachusetts to increase the vaccination rate through mobile vaccine clinics. Joining us are Lawrence Mayor Kendrys Vasquez and Dr. John Broach, an emergency physician who runs a mobile vaccine clinic for UMass Memorial Healthcare.
- The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package has a lot in it — and potentially a lot for Massachusetts. Senator Ed Markey's office says the Commonwealth is set to receive about 8 billion dollars to improve highways and public transit. That made us wonder how much 8 billion really is, in the grand scheme of things. So we called up an old friend of the show, and a longtime transit advocate: former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.
- Prices of homes in the Boston area continue to reach new highs. We discuss the current state of the market with Marc Draisen, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. Then, we turn to a real estate roundtable to take listener calls and discuss their experiences navigating the current real estate landscape.
This program aired on August 11, 2021.