This is a good point. The demand for burrito taxis is downstream from the fact that we don't have enough dense, walkable, mixed-use, housing-and-burritos neighborhoods.

This building is a basic box that covers the entire lot and has no modulations, setbacks, upper level setbacks, and still allows plenty of daylight to reach the street, isn’t a burden on utilities, has no parking and it’s completely fine. Legalize this stuff and let architects do their job

personally I think anyone should be able to change their name for any reason ever and society should just adapt for that. you will not change my mind

Awesome MBTA job--multimedia and social media manager www.governmentjobs.com/careers/mbta...

Hey Boston area friends! My occupational therapist and I are custom building a mobility device for me. We've prototyped a part. We now need it fabricated. Could be fabricated out of lightweight metal or on a 3D printer (plastic). Are you able to make it? Do you know someone? Reply!

Is Cambridge okay

Welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social baby robins www.wmur.com/article/olat...

“Losing the opportunity to even consider a project that would house 140 families and seniors in the town of Amherst, all in affordably priced units, is a travesty for the town.” gazettenet.com/2026/05/15/n...

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...

The is the awesome kind of stuff your transit agency can do when they have funding. Excellent work @metrotransitmn.bsky.social and thanks to the legislature and gov for providing the funding!

These massive tractor trailers shouldn't be allowed in cities. They are not safe. They've caused untold injuries, fatalities and yes road damage The reason companies need trucks this big is because they refuse to invest in local distribution centers, in order to save money. WE PAY the externalities

The sky above the port wa

I have no opinions on Carvana as a business, but if they somehow manage to destroy car dealerships, they will have done more good for this country than most institutions could ever dream of.

minnesota gov. tim walz has signed a bill banning prediction markes (kalshi, polymarket). first state-level ban of its kind. (sports betting via traditional/mobile sports books is still illegal here too)

i'm not sure i understand the difference between a davis square neighborhood council and a davis square main streets

People liked to complain about the modern bureaucratic state, but personally, I miss it.

Personally, I think it's great that the future is turning into a contest between one side that thinks taxes should go directly to the king's checking account and another that thinks taxes shouldn't go anywhere, period

It’s also paying off in lower transit operating costs and greater service reliability: according to the article, police holds (when trains are held for more than five minutes due to law enforcement activity) are down from 2,996 in Q2 2023 to 955 in Q1 2026

the American experiment was born in cities (Boston, Philadelphia), and has achieved its greatest expression in cities (New York) therefore, the Acela corridor is the American heartland

I do wish people took the "data centre will raise temps near it argument" for parking lots

My bus is stopped on holland at Teele back behind the stop bar where it’s supposed to wait for the light, to make sure the fire station has a clear driveway, and apparently that was a problem for the car behind us, which used the travel lane in the other direction to get out in front of us

Turns out, if you can comply with the posted regulations and it’s student move out time, you CAN park a car in Harvard yard

American medical association delenda est. Folks don’t like to hear it but the physician lobby is way more responsible for US healthcare system pathology than a lot of other actors.

I’m a little stressed today, so it’s pleasing that the winds are such that the flight path from Logan is over my house (This sounds sarcastic but it 100% is not, due to my childhood experiences this sounds like summer evenings to me)

They appear to be taking down the house next to me by chopping it into pieces to take down the stairs and I feel like that can’t possibly be right

The best thing Seattleites can do right now to help queer folks is build an absolute shit ton of housing so anyone fleeing oppressive states can afford to move here

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Single payer healthcare makes sense because the risk of getting hurt or sick is random; so price discrimination is unfair to unlucky people. Pricing risk to homes, OTOH, is good and useful. If you choose to buy a house in a flood plain or fire risk zone, you *should* pay higher insurance premiums!

Many of you deserve to have your cash grabbed

Should be every weekend all year round

Planning Board members love a 1740 Mass. Ave. project, its mural idea and learning how to say ‘Linnaean’

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

WHO DO YOU THINK IS BUYING THE PRODUCTS FROM SHELL, CHEVRON, BP, AND EXXON, YOU DUMMIES. You almost couldn't create a graphic more perfectly suited to infuriate me. like, you literally put the gas station logos at the top of each fucking bar! this is not hard!!

Happy to finally publish this! Many object to automated enforcement legislation on privacy grounds, and invoke the ACLU's name. But those same people seem perfectly fine with dragnet surveillance of motorists conducted by license plate readers. Make it make sense. www.aclum.org/news/were-pr...

There’s worry that the more-liked plan for Somerville’s 90 Washington St. land will be impossible to build

I became the change I wanted to see

Given that a plurality of American corn crops end up as car juice anyway, we could have the exact same energy outcomes by subsidizing farmers to build out solar power in some of their corn crop lands instead, with far fewer negative externalities (emissions, fertilizer runoff, corn sweats, etc.).

Science is incredible, more science please

a lot of people clearly think that the united states should have a "hukou" style system of controlled migration

Wow. 70% of the board members of transit boards in the state of Washington ride transit in the area they oversee only monthly or less frequently. 12% haven't ridden the transit they oversee at all. 32% only ride once a year or less.

The problem with driverless cars is not “destroying human interaction”; I don’t want to interact with my uber driver to tell him to stop scrolling TikTok while driving the problem is on the macro scale, making sure it doesn’t create endless traffic and sprawl

One thing that isn't discussed enough is that this expectation or demand for "human interaction" is actually a desire to maintain a "service class." You want someONE (vs. someTHING) to provide you with a service. Automated services like this removes yet another service provide by a human.

Man the Somerville east-west buses (83 87 88) are not very well staggered on Sundays at alllll

Never has an editorial screamed out for a "Now do highways and roads" response more than this one.

“Seattle’s pedestrian protection program got off to a flying start when Mrs. Helen Rose bit the traffic officer who gave her a ticket for jaywalking.” From Traffic Institute Review v.1 no.1, 1944.

"The unexpected boom in home batteries and the equally surprising surge in rooftop solar installations means that Australia’s target of 82 per cent renewables by 2030 – long dismissed as a lost cause by some – is now very much within reach."

I’ll vote for whichever 2028 candidate promises reconstruction 2.0 at this point

you kid but a version of the odyssey where someone gets lost as shit trying to drive back home through boston while having various adventures could be great

🏡Tonight in Land Use: we’ll be discussing two amendments: (1) improving the Affordable Housing Overlay by allowing 8-story buildings including Mass Timber (2) a resident-proposed amendment to ease restrictions on “dormers” AKA top-floor expansions like the ones shown here: