cool to have the directions for getting to an interview show both car and bike parking locations, I think that is a first for me

@boston.gov City Councilors Sharon Durkan and Henry Santana Propose Eliminating Off-Street Parking Mandates for Housing In Boston #mapoli mass.streetsblog.org/2026/04/15/c...

Urbanist dream idea after going to the #bostonfleet have at the Garden: Complete the North-South link and didn't build a bunch of parking on top of South Station (obviously). Instead, build a true home for the Fleet where they would get their logo on center ice.

Can you imagine how much nicer our cities will be with fewer gas stations?

We've got another @boston.gov #mapoli scoop: Last year, pundits and the Mayor's political opponents tried to turn bike lanes and bus lanes into a wedge issue, based on a belief that such projects were controversial among voters... (1/2)

Gas stations are harder to redevelop, due to site remediation issues and the revenue they still generate. Cities should create incentives in zoning to (ahem) prime the pump for redevelopment of gas stations

Most of the social programs that are routinely dismissed in American politics as "unrealistic" or "too expensive" could have been paid for multiple times over by the cost of this war so far, much less the costs to come. It's never the money.

Love watching the cops run around my block (and inter my backyard) with guns drawn...

Love seeing street defects get repaired based on my 311 reports (promptly in that I think the city probably doesn't lay asphalt for minor things until April)

In a time where federal funds are scarce, we have an administration that's willing to let that money go if it's marked for safety. Actions speak louder than words! #WusUTurn

Another Federal Funding Fumble for @mayorwu.boston.gov's administration: Boston Loses $8.15 Million for Safety Project At Deadly Fenway Intersection #mapoli mass.streetsblog.org/2026/04/02/a...

The Bos/treal crew is raffling off art, cool and unique bike parts, experiences and a ton more to support their 400 mile trip to Montreal! Buy some tickets and stay to hang out with a room full of friendly cyclists 😊 📅 Saturday April 11th 🕓 4-7pm (pull at 6:30) 📍 Aeronaut Brewing, 14 Tyler St

Cambridge is built different! This was a tough winter. Repeat storms and deep freezes caused conditions and ridership to decline. Except in Cambridge. It wasn’t perfect, but our network fared a bit better than elsewhere. Thank you @cambridgemass.bsky.social DPW! Infrastructure and effort matter.

Huge pile of the excess street snow from this winter revealing a graveyard of flexposts. Other cities have no problem plowing around flexposts but this year they all seem to be gone from Boston's streets.

Also he espoused extremely progressive trans rights views for a 67 year old white male: “They were born into a body they don’t feel comfortable with and you are going to be *mean* to them?”

Gas prices are soaring, but people interested in biking don't know where to start. What type of bike do I get for kids? Cargo? Commuting? Today, we're launching a site for just that - Find The Right Bike! In just four questions, we'll tell you the bike you need and how much money it'll save you 🧵

I don't like that even/especially in our nation's capital, these memorials are necessary. Lots of other small and large hints here that the country is sick

Cafe merch going hard

Around the corner a 3-unit building was sold; one of the owners died last year. Before 2025 it was only legal to have SFH or duplexes here, so you'd get renovations into expensive duplexes. Under new zoning, plan is 10-unit building, meaning 2 units will have subsidized rent for low-income renters.

Hell of a time for a big city mayor to cancel a shovel-ready, federally-funded transit project:

Your best believe that the National Bike Summit changed the conference schedule to bring all the national bike advocates in town to protest the removal of DC's 15th St bike lane #biketooter

@TheWarOnCars is dragging Mayor Wu really hard for her heel turn at the National Bike Summit

My periodic plea: Follow @ap.brid.gy so folks on Mastodon and Bluesky can interact with each other.

If you voted for Mayor Wu because of her promises to make Boston greener and safer to travel outside of cars PLEASE SEND HER A LETTER saying why safe streets are important to you and to ask her to fulfill her campaign promises not to undo her own work bcu.bike/sscw

Michelle Wu: "We want more community input on streets projects" [urbanists continue to discuss streets on bsky] Michelle Wu: "Not like that >:(" https://bsky.app/profile/samd.bsky.social/post/3mhqrzixtxc2n #boston

Based on Wu's BSKY activity, I think we can officially mark her down as no longer progressive and just a generic status-quo-ist Democrat. It's been a bit over a year of uncertainty if she was just worried about Kraft, but it turns out daddy Kraft won the election before it even started

Boston's density is the most like a European city in all of the US. This is possible, within reach and a climate necessity. We need boldness now more than ever!

"Consensus" around Hyde Park Ave and the speed bumps program has been clear. These programs are hugely popular yet Mayor Wu has stopped them. We need to demand that federal money for street safety doesn't go unused and back to the Trump admin. Send a letter to the Mayor: bcu.bike/act #WusUTurn

It’s weird that this story doesn’t mention that BTD staff went to the Boston Globe en masse to say they don’t know what she wants, and huge chunks of BTD senior staff have left. Pausing for ‘consensus’ is questionable, but leaving your team in a vacuum is bad leadership.

you can't build consensus with people who are never gonna give a shit about safety and just want car go vroom

Just to be clear, this would mean roughly $9 / gallon average cost in the US and higher in many states. If your city isn't actively fast-building as many bike lanes as possible at the moment in preparation they have failed you utterly.

ATTN: #boston #SomervilleMA #cambridgema #cycling folks There is a public meeting TONIGHT (Thurs, 19 March) to discuss planned improvements along Alford St. and Broadway to extend the SL3 bus. The project description includes mention of separate bike infrastructure and improved multi-modal […]

Armchair experts of the social media: I need a new roof (grrrr) and wanna get rooftop solar too. What are PV prices looking like in this post-incentive hellscape? What’s the current state of play with MassSave incentives?

Everyday is a good day to remember that the word "boycott" is the name of a british landlord and general agent of empire so revolting that the people of County Mayo shunned him so hard that his name entered the English language as a prototype but today is a particularly good day […]

What do I need to do to a mastodon server to shadow-deactivate 4000 accounts or something? Or to put it another way: how much of the database size is fetching and storing content for only the unused accounts? This server is not sustainable on masto.host with our current usage fees being over […]

Great reporting by @nikigriswold.bsky.social on the dysfunction caused by @wutrain.bsky.social getting cold feet on making Boston streets safer. Really depressing that the only way to get a project green lit personally by her is if a child is killed 😿 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/15/m...

Paying taxes is good, actually

I voted, have you? There’s six great transportation projects in there, I voted for four of them.

If you’re a #cambridgema resident, don’t forget to vote for participatory budgeting by the 15th! https://www.cambridgema.gov/participatorybudgeting

It’s just a no for me. Don’t bring this to Boston. Don’t want it. Nope. 📷: Axios Boston

Spent some time tonight documenting plow damage to #cycling infrastructure in #boston (Tremont St. and Arlington St.) #BikeTooter

If you want a vital city build housing and remove parking. It's honestly that simple.

The bus ride to/from Jackson Square is now fast and predictable because of the center running bus lanes. The traffic is calmer + safer and double parking much decreased. Emergency vehicle passage is swift and unimpeded All of Boston deserves these benefits, particularly where there is no train

This weekend would be a good time to get an e-bike. A fuck-ton of errands are trips of less than 10 miles, but that uses a lot of petrol.

Miss me with the "cyclists are entitled" when space savers are a thing https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2sfy6irvmfmnwxe4ouhrrn7a/post/3mgbcjsytyk2p

anyone who dares to ask a cyclist why they would use the streets under ANY CONDITIONS A MOTORIST WOULD ALSO USE THEM is not *merely* an asshole but also almost certainly a genuine danger to cyclists on the roads

So many road safety studies use # of lanes as an independent variable, but (except for road-diet-focused studies) rarely as the dependent variable. Very little lit actually says what all the data shows - “controlling for everything else, the more lanes you have in your road, the more fatalities.”

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116165631106678137 Need more open-source apps to replace things. Mastodon is a good start.

Anyone want to get this going? https://boston.biketag.org/ #BikeBoston #biketag