Danny 🚲⛵️

It’s odd to me the MBTA Worcester/Framingham line schedule budgets 16 mins for the ride from Lansdowne to Back Bay

Even at a slow pace, it just took 3 mins

Really great write up about Mayor Wu's tax abatement proposal in Councilor Ben Weber's newsletter @ben4district6.bsky.social

Any Boston folks know anything about the BU student protest at corner of Ivy/Carlton Streets in Brookline?

I passed by it on the way home and am just curious

So you’re telling me “Mary had a little lamb” and “chocolate chip cookies” are from Massachusetts

I feel that stop signs and “dismount and walk signs” on multiuse paths are just meant to shift blame onto bikes/peds when they get hit by a car there

Editorial: Bike Lane Haters Keep On Losing - Streetsblog Massachusetts As it turns out, a considerable number of informed voters understand that if we actually want less traffic, we need to design streets that favor more efficient modes of transportation.

“Josh Kraft’s mayoral campaign has apparently convinced too many people in City Hall who ought to know better that making streets safer and investing in public transit was politically risky.

Josh Kraft’s election results should debunk that theory for good.“

lol we literally had a referendum on Wu in September

Imagine being a suburban Baby Boomer and living with Wu Derangement Syndrome

Two people killed in the Boston area in car crashes today.

This is buried down at the bottom of the homepage since driving is so dangerous it's not really news.

Sometimes I’m flabbergasted by how good a deal electric bluebikes are

I was looking at an hour by MBTA, but instead paid half the price and got home in 14 minutes on an electric bluebike

One way protected pbl at Holly and Cornwall

One way protected pbl at Holly and Commercial

Greetings from Bellingham: a city that has figured out how to build more than one protected intersection at a time, apparently.

Screenshot of headline reading: Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else The administration's rush to process thousands of White South Africans coincides with plans for overall admissions set as low as 7,500.

Nazi nominated to high government position. Infusing White supremacy into our refugee admissions policy. Also known as “Tuesday” in the Trump administration.

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

Argentina is a relatively well-off country with currency issues - also with full healthcare for all its citizens. The US administration is supposedly bailing out their currency to the tune of $40B. In comparison, the jettisoned USAID budget, used for programs to keep people fed and alive, was $32B.

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

Still awake 🤪

Tonight I learned that my friend totaled his car hitting a turkey on the Mass Pike, and that’s the most masshole thing to ever happen to anybody

NEW: Monica Tibbits-Nutt out as Healey transportation chief

Phil Eng in as interim

I was biking the Northern Strand trail this weekend and was approaching a ped signal as it said 8..7…6…

I was about to cross, but the cars started moving because it was a HAWK signal 🙄

Beautiful historic brick row houses along Mattoon Street in Springfield, MA 🏡

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.

Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.

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100-mile bike ride today, and ~70% of it was on trails

Much of Boston road section had bike lanes, and the suburban roads were ok. Also, some of the road sections could be done on trail/sidewalk (e.g. waltham, southie), but road was ok alternative when considering speed

fascinating thing about this is that electricity prices are going nuts and the structural factors that should drive prices up (data center construction, climate, the increasingly un-ringfenced natural gas market) are not yet playing major roles in the price rises

which means it's only getting worse

Do foster parents have to affirm LGBTQ+ kids? The state says ‘yes.’ Christian couples who’ve lost their foster licenses are suing, citing religious discrimination.

A pair of Christian couples in Massachusetts are suing the state, saying their rights were violated when they lost their foster licenses over their views on gender and sexuality. https://bit.ly/4pC0JHz

French President Emmanuel Macron called President Donald Trump after being stopped at a New York street blocked off for his US counterpart's motorcade during the UN General Assembly reut.rs/42acMSC

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.

Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

This is what crossings in front of schools should look like.

Raised crossing, short crossing distance, 20mph speed limit, close street trees for calming, protected bike lane, two-way road narrows to a pinch point / cars have to slow down and take turns.

Phones are too big these days. How am I supposed to safely text and drive when it takes two hands to use my phone?