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Natural History Museum is free to MA residents on Sunday mornings

Worth noting the students don't go to school on the wall. They use the school. And the school is rather nice inside. Also, the wall will retain a sizable ballfield where before there was a parking lot and giant furnace. So... better?

Major update: They painted the lane divide on a short concrete section of the School-to-Sycamore section. Punch that punch list!

At least for me, a more useful real-time update would be "Are the closed community path sections breachable?" It is now getting to roughly 75% of the time you hit up one of the segments between Lowell St and School St and the fences have been pushed aside. But you're never sure if the fencing on...

I just want to mock myself for this previous post by noting that I am about to take the GLX to Lechmere where I plan to visit this REI and buy some running shoes. That's synergy right there.

This is a very dumb conversation.

Love the whole "Won't someone please think of the children?!!?" pearl-clutching about speed restrictions. Not everything requires a law or a rule. I have great confidence in the fact that a stretch of pavement with people on it will result in some bumps and bruises, but much more often just...

Every time I pass the westbound path segments between Gilman and Davis on a weekend they have been opened by my good Somerville neighbors with a few people happily strolling. It is then closed by the villainous government overlords early during the work week. At the risk of whipping up the...

Gilman is my neighborhood and I've contributed to some of the city's visioning plans for the area. Unfortunately, I'd say all the extant material is past its expiration date. The neighborhood groups the city works with for input on development consider the 2014 plan as useless since it is built...

Just completed my first ride. Eleven minutes from Gilman Square to North Station.

I wouldn't be proud to live there.

Short answer: Nothing planned for the foreseeable future (next 5+ years). Longer answer: It is city owned and has been the preferred dumping ground for a cycling wish list of projects, including fire station, community center, large park, affordable housing. Numerous groups hired by or...

Kudos to them for sticking to the bit. Opening gets delayed roughly every three months since this February. December 2021 - original opening date. Pushed out in June 2021. May 2022 - second opening date. [Asked if the May 2022 goal for the remaining six stops are in question, Poftak replied...

Soap box alert: This is why we need reasonably respected, serious news media outlets like the Globe. When a citizen asks the question the answer is "You'll know when you know." When the Globe asks the same question, on the same day, the answer is "By the end of the week." And most certainly the...

Agreed. The date has changed but the text has not.