Great to see @somervilleinfr1.bsky.social Western Pearl St Reconstruction awarded funding!

Meanwhile a team of four trucks and six crew from the City's Parking and Transportation department was working for half an hour around the corner clearing out the entrance to a PARKING GARAGE. I asked if they could help and they said "we don't do bus stops."

@mayorjakewilson.bsky.social can the fines we issue to properties that fail to shovel fund a community snow clear program like this?

This is specifically a program for clearing "crosswalks, bus stops, and fire hydrants." As someone who spent 45 minutes clearing a Somerville crosswalk *4 weeks* after our last storm, I think that building capacity for things like this--such that you can throw $$ at it--is a good idea for cities.

Eyes On the Street: Three Weeks After the Storm, Snow Woes Remain Across Greater Boston - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/20/e...

It’s a travel lane or it’s not, @311somerville.bsky.social.

It is, in fact, insulting that our cities can’t even manage to keep the main roadways clear - weeks after the snow stopped.

Want a free tree? Read on! The Mystic River Watershed Association Tree Planting program offers Somerville residents free trees to be planted on private property. MyRWA provides the tree and works with local partners to help coordinate planting and offer guidance on getting it off to a strong start.

Could the @boston.gov please clear the bike lanes on the Evelyn Moakley Bridge? @mayorwu.boston.gov @edflynnforboston.bsky.social @gigi4district1.bsky.social @universalhub.com @fpnaboston.bsky.social @bikeboston.bsky.social @walkmass.bsky.social @wbztv.bsky.social @fortpointer.bsky.social

Guest Column from @walkmass.bsky.social: Enough With the Snow, We Deserve Accessible Sidewalks - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/10/g...

A well designed pedestrian refuge #sneckdown here on Broadway in Somerville. I say we keep it! Many pedestrians stand on the grassy island when they don't make it all the way across.

I feel like Boston could stand to clear access to the pedestrian signal buttons - especially right next to the hospital.

I’m a bummed by the incomplete job of snow clearing that Cambridge and Somerville have done. Even larger through-ways are still constructed (Oxford is today’s example) side streets are f-ing tight, sight lines at corners are garbage, etc, etc. Are we planning to wait for it to melt, or what?

I had a friend visit this weekend who is still a bit wobbly from a broken ankle earlier in the year and OH WOW do I have a much clearer picture about the importance of clearing sidewalks, curb cuts, rail crossings, and the rest now.

Opened with much fanfare last year as a key bike connection to the city, the Bill Russell Bridge’s bike lanes have not been shoveled over a week after the snowstorm. @massdot.bsky.social @mass.streetsblog.org @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov

Eyes On the Street: Days After the Storm, Boston’s Sidewalks Are An Inaccessible Mess - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/01/29/e...

Dismounting required for all users of the Community Path at School St, its most dangerous intersection. Curb cut and adjacent sidewalk not shoveled. @311somerville.bsky.social @mayorjakewilson.bsky.social @benforward3.bsky.social

Fortunately the unplowed bike lane has been stamped down enough for this mother and her children to detour cautiously around the completely blocked sidewalk to access the Green Line.

School St sidewalk to Gilman station completely blocked by unshoveled snow and snow bank.This is 1 of 2 enhanced enforcement streets, primary access to our busiest green line station, and visible from the windows of City Hall. @311somerville.bsky.social ticket submitted this morning.

I should not be able to skate on the sidewalk! @jake4somerville.bsky.social @mayorjakewilson.bsky.social @cityofsomerville.bsky.social how can we force this property owner to maintain their sidewalk in the winter? The current strategy is not working.

Lifting this out of my nerdy city council thread. The Somerville City Council has once again voted to accept state funds to pay overtime to cops to harass cyclists under the fig leaf of "education." Shame.

This meeting is moving -fast- so I'm not going to be able to grab the whole PTAC (Pedestrian Transit Advisory Committee) recommendations on McGrath - but @jtforward2.bsky.social notes that the very first one is NO NEW HAWK SIGNALS and I heartily concur. 24/?

The new @massdot.bsky.social Bill Russell Bridge has a poorly thought out drainage system where water from the planters drains into the bike lane. In warm weather there are puddles every morning, and now it is going to be icy and hazardous all winter. @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social

How can the newly built bus boarding platforms on Summer St be repurposed now that #MBTA Bus route 85 permanently cut back to Bow St in Somerville? Did we know of this in advance? @somervilleinfr1.bsky.social @jake4somerville.bsky.social @benforward3.bsky.social www.mbta.com/service-chan...

It’s crazy that seemingly nobody at @massdot.bsky.social has sat and watched a HAWK in action. It doesn’t matter how many signs you put up, drivers don’t understand it and don’t obey it. At least a RRFB is more difficult to ignore.

Boston Data Show Streets With New Bike Lanes Successfully Shift Traffic, With Fewer Cars and Way More Bikes - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/05/b...

Open house with MassDOT this evening as local residents engaged with the latest plans for the McGrath Boulevard project, which will tear down the overpass and redo the corridor with protected bike lanes, trees and green space. One of the many highlights is a new, elevated crosswalk at Otis Street!

🚧TANTALIZING! We all hate the awful 90° intersection of the Community Path and School St, and at long last some possible solutions are emerging. Three scenarios, still early in planning/feasibility, were just presented to the Council! More info: somervillema.legistar.com/MeetingDetai...

Paying With Their Time: Increasing Traffic Congestion Erodes Benefits of Boston’s Fare-Free @mbta.com Buses - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/19/p...

@somervilleinfr1.bsky.social while I wish the Facbook page fear mongering were correct that this work means the McGrath Blvd construction is starting, do you know if there are any safety improvements planned by MassDOT as part of the ongoing median reconstruction?

Featured comment on our Arborway story (linked below) "If an airport had a poor safety record and they refused to take corrective action in a timely manner would we continue to let them operate?" www.reddit.com/r/streetsblo...

Got beeped at the other day for stopping at the HAWK by 93 as an elderly man pushed his wife in a wheelchair through the crosswalk in front of me. Red light + camera is the only way to get drivers to give up their perceived priority over pedestrians.

It’s been a long time coming, our contractor has installed precast concrete curbs along the bike lane on Curtis Street. More coming to Washington Street soon! 🚲

We need to work with our state delegation and the Department of Conservation and Recreation to make necessary changes to Route 16 that reduce unsafe driver behavior like speeding and red light running. And it’s high time drivers experienced consequences for this reckless behavior.

am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?

@jfh01.bsky.social The cast in place concrete is the right way to go. The only people I could imagine are in favor of the zebra bumps are delivery drivers and wrist surgeons. I’ve crashed once before hitting the base of a flex post with no post, these are far less visible.

Boston’s new “Better Buffers” initiative plans to replace flexposts with cast-in-place curbs. Somerville has started using pre-cast curbs recently. I assume pre-cast is cheaper/quicker to implement and just as protective as cast-in-place. www.boston.gov/departments/...

When they founded this country some 250 years ago, one of the core ideas was that it shouldn’t be this hard to figure out why someone was deprived of their liberty (or where they are being held) by the government.

The Community Path Safety Improvements project to implement both near-term quick-build improvements and longer-term design options along the path, at key intersections and at the two Green Line station entrances on the path. 🧵

“We need leadership who will tell us the trade-offs … We need an administration who will own delays and slipped deadlines for what they are rather than letting the council take the heat while adjusting the goalposts.” medium.com/@fdmts/our-c...

For #somerville #somerpoli City Council At-Large candidate Holly Simione suggests stopping building new protected bike lanes and thinks cyclists should pay a fee to register their bikes.

This is great, can @mayorwu.boston.gov stop backsliding on street safety and put back the bike and bus lanes that have been removed during the campaign now? Maybe also prioritizing safety on Hyde Park Ave redesign before someone else is killed? mass.streetsblog.org/2025/08/14/w...

Here is a brief history of why I am so frustrated with the lack of progress on a Highland Ave redesign. (If you enjoy municipal rants, this post is for you.) youtu.be/lP0zGdQSXIk?...

Here's the schedule from 2021. We are now all the way off the right hand side of this chart. This is for the goddamn community process, not the paving or the painting or anything else. 44/?

@somervilleinfr1.bsky.social I’m very happy that Gilman is getting much of its 2023 bike lane back on Medford St, as well as pre-cast concrete upgrades to School. The CPX detour lanes reduced speeding and made ped crossing of Mdfd/School feel much safer due to the reduced crossing distance.

Looking at the map of spotted lanternfly in MA feels like there are marauders at the gates. I’m hoping the next administration can dedicate some significant resources to invasive species management. Plants like Black Swallow Wort are so pervasive and many don’t know/care they have it.

Wu Won’t Fix Hyde Park Ave. Safety Hazards in Upcoming Paving Project - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/08/14/w...

SASS put out a questionnaire to our candidates to see where they stood on safe streets. I wanted to add my own personal commentary. These views are mine alone, not SASS. I like a candidate who evolves their views based on data and learning. I'll start with mayor: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 1/

It’s remarkable seeing @mayorkatjana.bsky.social remember Gilman Sq exists every two years. So much enthusiasm for “Somerville’s High Line” when she is the one who mothballed the plan for 4 years and told the neighborhood council last month that her staff has more important priorities than Gilman.

The question phrasing seems to be heavily biased towards the admins desired outcome. Trum Field is a bad location for a school and it has nothing to do with the loss of field space and everything to do with the fact that half the catchment area is Medford.