Cool bike-related job opportunity in Lowell, Massachusetts!

At least this time they didn't knock over a mailbox

If your city leaders don't care enough about people's lives to properly protect bike lanes, we can't expect anyone else to care about them either. Solid design directs and controls motorist behavior, no matter how they feel about bike lanes.

Excuse me, Chop Suey is a Massachusetts abomination Also, I will not accept any Fluffernutter slander.

The way this made me cackle. A whole winters worth of work.

A BOUNTY OF BRANCHES

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Goodbye snow, hello sticks

"Implementation is expected to cost about $2 million, mainly to update signage across the city. Whitburn said roughly 3,000 speed limit signs will have to be changed over the next year.... 'I can't think of a better use of money than to save somebody's life'" - Councilman Stephen Whitburn

American exceptionalism www.wcvb.com/article/shoo...

A very large number of elementary schools are really going to need a new name.

I just heard back from the reporter, and I am genuinely speechless. Is “we don’t care” the business model?

What the fuck

"According to state data, traffic in this area has steadily increased over the years." WELL ACTUALLY 93 south of 128: 2024: 195,150 2023: 194,172 2022: 188,247 2021: 187,999 2020: 172,744 2019: 202,029 2018: 200,824 2017: 195,644 2016: 196,233 mhd.public.ms2soft.com/TDMS.UI_Core...

Bicyclists and pedestrians need to justify every single inch of infrastructure they get with usage data, while infrastructure for drivers is never questioned; it's just assumed that drivers *need* all the space they have. But as this example shows, that is not always the case.

When I worked at the City of Boston, Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day were my fave holidays because they REALLY mean something for Boston. Incredible overview of Henry Knox's heroics and the power of local resistance by @hcrichardson.bsky.social. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-16-2...

Us: “Could we get a bike lane on Avenue X?” Them: “Are you crazy, do you know how much that would cost?”

Notably, adding lanes won't fix the behavior indicated on the article as to what causes the issues there. Drivers don't pay attention and are never in the correct lane, no matter how good the signage or how many times they've traveled that route.

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This area is indeed a clusterfuck of road design, but also, "One more lane, bro." I just think it's interesting that stories like this never include any mention of a real intervention to reduce congestion: Reducing the number of cars on the road.

The charges could bring a sentence of 15 years in prison...

Also frequent airport users have a very specific demo—higher income, college-educated, white-collar professionals—and that’s not a GOP-favoring demo. It’s people likely to blame this on Trump, on average

It me. We work from home, but we specifically chose a daycare within walking distance. However, our sidewalks were so badly maintained this winter that we have been driving him 1.4 miles RT every day. 🥲

also I feel like if you just shut down all the TSA stations and just used them to check boarding passes shit would run way faster and everything would be fine

“1 mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, 1 mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” The #’s may vary, but the truth is the same.

The DHS shutdown, most visibly affecting TSA so that’s the main thing Rs have tried to make hay on, shows a funny dynamic where members of Congress vastly overestimate how much people care about airport problems. They and everyone they know are frequent flyers but only a tiny slice of Americans are.

That's how you know it's a CLASSIC!

I just want to note that a driver was gearing up to roll a stop sign but then he actually stopped when he saw the Branch Manager

Seven Days is local gem in Burlington VT. The kind of local indy news we used to have all over.

Anyway the sincerest form of flattery is PAYING PEOPLE FOR THEIR WORK.

This is sloppy, disrespectful, and also fits into the larger pattern of using the work of independent journalists with no credit. Gillian is an extremely experienced journalist doing critical reporting and yoinking it like this is unethical and unprofessional.

i celebrate st. patrick’s day as the lord intended, by helicoptering a snake over my head and heaving it at a protestant

Microplastics play the long game.

this is alejandro iñárritu’s mad max: fury road

please stop doxxing @ed3d.net

finally remembered what this reminded me of

“I told him, ‘I’m a U.S. citizen!’ He told me, ‘I don’t care.’” Everyone should read this account of an ICE raid on a home in Vermont. This is what secret police do. Great reporting from @sevendaysvt.bsky.social: www.sevendaysvt.com/news/teen-sh...

The sleepiest boi after a big day with grandma

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People are showing up to court in Massachusetts for minor issues and being kidnapped by ICE. I hope the legislature moves quickly on several pending pieces of legislation that will limit ICE's ability to operate in courthouses, including expanding virtual hearing access.

Living in Europe means no Cybertrucks, but today a Dutch lady told me she a "bad dream" where a coup happened in her childhood backyard, causing her to "lose [her] white privilege," at which point she was forced to join a gang and marry a Black man; so it's impossible to say if Europe's bad or not,,

Third Way: "Here's what Democrats can learn from this."

One reason I love Mamdani's videos is that he doesn't assume people are stupid and unable to grasp complex subjects.

That is more or less the size of it, and I can't say as I care for it much, m'self

Same. Except thankfully less regularly.

My attitude toward West Cambridge has further soured with the knowledge that neither of the two Cybertruck owners has been bullied into selling their car

Same and the only cure is looking at a kei truck

My views on the PT Cruiser have really softened since the advent of the Cybertruck.

It’s like seeing a vehicle in a video game that’s still just a bunch of fractals because it hasn’t fully spawned yet

Cleveland Meteor™️cut with the destruction of the Enterprise from Star Trek 3. Paramount Pictures and Pittsburgh NWS.