in the last week I > had an off-leash dog chase my toddler around a playground > nearly crashed my bike into an off-leash dog sprinting after a frisbee on the community path

As it turns out, @mayorwu.boston.gov possessed more robust polling data that debunked those claims. There is, in fact, broad support for bike and bus lanes among Boston residents. We're now making that polling data public for the first time. Read it here: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/04/09/i...

I am highly skeptical the #MBTA is going to be able to sell 10k tickets to each World Cup match, much less 20k tickets, at $80 each

learning today that making the C branch of the #MBTA Green Line accessible required two 100+ page environmental filings for MEPA because the filing standard is cutting down 5 medium size trees

these service cuts are gonna be massive, aren’t they

had two cars attempt to run red lights at speed while I was the in the crosswalk /with a stroller/ this morning. automated enforcement can’t come fast enough

Why is this legal to do at 3am?

The T raised their special event prices from $20 to $30 for the World Cup friendly yesterday and only filled 40% of their seats (2300/6000). $75 would be an enormous own goal

the T says the quiet part loud: if you want us to meet the electric bus mandate we are going to have to cut service. commonwealthbeacon.org/transportati...

SCOOP: @mayorwu.boston.gov's Administration Delays @mbta.com Columbus Ave. Transit Project; City Hall Planners Told to Cancel Meetings With T mass.streetsblog.org/2026/03/25/w...

tough to say the #MBTA is taking rail electrification seriously when they can’t be bothered to correctly identify rolling stock in use at other US agencies

Boston MPO & MAPC proposing to triple the number of e-bikes (750 to 2250) in the BlueBikes system this year www.bostonmpo.org/data/calenda...

new center-running bus lanes on Blue Hill Ave, among other transit priority projects, are under an unannounced, Mayor Wu directed stoppage and have been for the past year www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/15/m...

hey @cityofsomerville.bsky.social please clear the accessible path in the Davis Sq old slip lane. it’s been ages

instead of focusing on service delivery as a whole to deliver regional rail for Mass, the T is laser focused on a one for one replacement of diesel locomotives to lock in subpar service for a generation. a huge mistake.

My Cambridge/Somerville experience is similar to this, but 1) a chunk of these (10-20%?) are not wide enough to fit a stroller and 2) curb cut compliance is abysmal, barely 1 in 2 if that. Notably most of houses that don’t clear their pedestrian curb cut properly have a spotless driveway curb cut

SEPTA now required to operate at MBTA speeds

here’s a curb cut that has gone uncleared for over 3 weeks. if Somerville isn’t going to bother to enforce snow clearing rules they should just clear sidewalks themselves

building permits in 5+ unit multifamily buildings in Boston, Mass, and MA ex-Boston over the past decade, both raw counts + indexed to the latest pre-Covid period

credit where due to @cityofsomerville.bsky.social & @mayorjakewilson.bsky.social the sidewalk in front of the Eversource building at Willow & Community Path still hadn’t been cleared as of this afternoon. One 311 report & it was done within the hour

Inauspicious start for the Wilson admin that the least cleared sidewalks I walked today were … owned by the City of Somerville

Wow, Healey solved the cost of living crisis

Not sure I’ve ever seen New England getting this much electricity from oil. My emissions today w/ heat pumps are probably higher than if I had kept gas

You can get money for the MBTA or you can pay Cambridge a 25% tax on new home construction but you can’t do both

Good opportunity for stop consolidation on the MBTA 77 bus—took a trip this morning with stops every 1/6th mile, could easily get rid of 30-50% of these

the NWS has a campaign called “turn around don’t drown” because the majority of flood related deaths are due to … people driving their cars into flood waters

Not even the 6th biggest thing in this story, but if someone in a car approached me and used a “derogatory term” to refer to someone they were looking for I cannot for the life of me imagine giving them any useful information.

Two trips to Davis today, two vehicles parked in the bus stop in front of H Mart, despite automated enforcement. I suspect Somerville’s “grace period” that allows for legal parking in the bus stop isn’t helping

Mass signature requirements for ballot questions are far lower than CA—you only need 3% of midterm voters, vs 5/8% in CA. With turnout in 2022 at only 50%, you only need signatures from ~1.5% of registered voters to get something on the ballot This problem is going to get worse

jealous that NYC is building bus lanes (as opposed to Boston, which is removing them)

Absurd for CTDOT to be running 30 min headways on MNRR this weekend with this kind of crowding

🌟 Use our New Train Tracker to track down the holiday Orange & Green Line trains! traintracker.transitmatters.org

jesus christ the PATH makes the Boylston curve sound like a charming melody. you all live like this?

I looked back at the #MBTA meeting calendar for 2025, and what I saw is not indicative of a healthy board of directors. #mapoli

So why is the T only running 3 of 8 of their new trainsets?

Good article, but notable that it doesn’t mention the biggest difference in Mass v Federal accessibility reqs. It’s that Federal ones kick in for buildings with 4+ units, and Mass ones kick in at 3+ units www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/14/o...

I wonder how many of these are boilers and are more difficult to convert w/ a (from what I can tell) thin or non existent air to water heat pump market in the US

hey @cityofsomerville.bsky.social why is there a huge pile of leaves and dirt blocking the accessible curb cut at the Davis Sq busway?

me, a MBTA Green Line rider, watching the Canadians brag about their tram that goes through intersections at 15mph

7 different insane things in this article about how hard it is to open a business in Boston but needing a license for a TV in your restaurant takes the cake

This is a … generous ... interpretation of how the MBTA is doing. Why is there no comparison to pre-COVID for subway service? Or mention of the Green Line? etc.

It feels like Mass has really fallen behind the ball on AV implementation. This is the latest I can find (www.mass.gov/info-details...), an EO from 9 years ago, some regulations and only 1 company doing testing?

This was one of the original inspirations for the @transitmatters.bsky.social slow zone tracker (dashboard.transitmatters.org/system/slowz...) so it’s always surprising to me that it hasn’t prompted more action in Chicago given the map has looked like this for a long time

This should be the vision for post-McGrath in Somerville, not endless unusable “green” buffer spaces

People seem down on the MBTA communities act but here is a good example of it working—Braintree has a by-right project to build 752 units because of it, 10x as many units as they’ve built in the past 5 years combined hollingsworthpond.com

nice little aurora

this is a fascinating act of self-sabotage that is hard to explain and harder to comprehend

Surprised the MTA is running 8 min weekday off-peak headways—the T has generally boosted those to ~6 min (longer on Blue, I think)

I say this as someone who already cast his vote for Jake but being against a citywide upzoning plan while proposing a different, vague upzoning plan that contains few if any specifics is not exactly an inspiring closing message