Recent content by bigeman312

I agree. Getting some good data on usage and devoting resources according to that usage would be a great thing to advocate for.

I agree that this is an improvement. This would re-wild a good chunk of parkland, increasing the parkland from ~100 ft to ~300 ft between riverside to road. That’s a huge win.

Thank you all for the discussion. @HenryAlan I didn’t mean to present a strawman. I always enjoy exchanging ideas with you and ultimately we both want to see more equitable, safer, and more efficient streets at improve the quality of life for those who exist on and around them. The fact that we...

I don't know if there is a "Street B" in this case. Chestnut Hill Ave might be a good candidate for robust cycling infrastructure. It might not. I'm simply arguing for: Making data driven decisions Prioritizing decisions that will help the most people 2a. This means prioritizing streets where...

I’m saying that mode share is not static. I thought that made it clear. It must not have. Sorry! We definitely have incompatible outlooks, then. I’d rather focus on regional mode share than forcing a mode share on each street. That’s accomplished by prioritizing building a network people are...

I strongly disagree with this. Let's break down what you are saying, with a hypothetical (becuase mode share data is unfortunately lacking): Street A: Two driving lanes, 25 mph, wide shoulders, average sidewalks, 99.9% automobile mode share and 0.1% cycling/micromobility share. Street B...

I disagree with this conclusion. On the other hand, I’m inferring that you are pre-emptively pushing back on those who conclude that mode share is static and doesn’t respond to infrastructure changes, which is also an incorrect conclusion. Mode share data is useful, but also mode share...

I wish we were making data driven decisions here. If we find that 1% of road users are cyclists and 10% are pedestrians, that should result in a different design than if 1% are pedestrians and 10% are cyclists. There is a finite amount of political capital that exists to implement bike...

When things are done poorly, like South Coast Rail Phase 1, it hurts the public perception of investing in rail (understandably) and makes it less likely that we get proper infrastructure, like South Coast Rail Phase 2.

Useful data (probability of being pulled over if one were to drive 20mph over speed limit for a half mile on a given stretch of road, for example) would be a godsend, but is impossible to come by. Number of citations is the numerator of this type of data, but it’s useless without the...

Would this work much better with a Charles River Bike Path underpass under North Beacon? I’m imagining that the crosswalk would have a steady flow of cyclists and other micromobility users at many hours,

Thanks for the feedback. I'll have to put this on my mental map. With the crosswalk approach, that does make CHA much more palatable. Personally, I don't have quite as negative of an outlook as you for biking on roads like Hammond, where traffic volume isn't crazy and I can fully take a lane...

Interesting! I'm more inclined to take, depending on where I'm coming from: Hammond -> Reservoir -> Beacon -> CHA, Brighton Emerald Necklace -> Washington St I avoid CHA Brookline due to the poorly designed zigzag on Route 9 that it requires, and this proposal does nothing to mitigate that...

This is good and I like it, but it would be made so much better by: converting the northbound sidewalk-level separated bike lanes along O'Brien Hwy, between Leighton and Charlestown Ave to two-way separated bike lanes. extending the two-way separated bike lanes along the northbound side of...

A-ha! Makes perfect sense to me. Thanks for the context.