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The Boston Bikes map has a rating system: beginner, intermediate, advanced. They could put up signs, I suppose.

In Boston we like to kibbitz about knish.

This is pure, dickish trolling. Of course we don't condone that.

It was okay but rather small, and not the one I wanted, the spinach one. I asked for the meat but it seems they gave me the potato instead. I used to get knishes from the Jewish deli my mom favored when I was a kid and this did not quite evoke that. They also claim to have shakshuka at this...

Finally made it over. The pastrami sandwich is $18 for a whole, $9 for a half. Honestly, the "half sandwich" is enormous. More than enough for me, and I eat a lot. So I'm guessing that the "whole" is in the NY style, and plenty for two. It's good. Had a knish and a maple bacon donut as well.

Cambridge is featured in the most recent StreetFilms: http://www.streetfilms.org/cambridge-britains-cycling-capital/

Anytime you hear a NIMBY whinging about "privatization of public space! waa waa waa" do take a moment to remind them that on-street parking is precisely privatization of public space.

Hmm, Google's expected trip time currently for Gilman Sq -> Park via 80/GL is 28 minutes, operating every 20 minutes. Though I suspect that's slower in fact, with the traffic and the transfer.

These are prime candidates for 'shared street' or woonerf treatment.

Yes: that's a pithy way to say "I think you're making excuses for something that's not right." The word "bullshit" encapsulates that sentiment. Is that what you're complaining about? The reason you won't actually answer any of my logical points? Or that you suddenly dismiss everything I say...

You have never provided a solid rationale for those pauses and instead resorted to personal attacks straight away. You ignore and continue to ignore all of my points about how there is no sensible nor scientific reason that can be discerned for their methods. You aren't obligated to provide a...

F-line has simply resorted to personal attacks now. He has no response to my points. a) I remember when the 'pauses' were implemented going down into Kenmore. It's not 'ancient' at all. It's relatively new. b) The pause before descending into Kenmore occurs on a section of superelevated track...

I'm saying that the Houston light rail systems averages 15 mph AT GRADE with NO TUNNELS through the middle of downtown Houston in a highly transit-unfriendly political environment. The "B" branch manages 6-8 mph running in a dedicated lane through what is basically a suburb (of the streetcar...

The 'pause' at Kenmore has been implemented within the last ten years. Don't tell me this nonsense about BERy. I remember the Green Line running without the pointless stop that achieves NO SAFETY BENEFIT within the past 5-7 years. I can tell you it achieves NO SAFETY BENEFIT because there's no...

I view sharrows less as a message to drivers (all non-limited-access public ways are open to bikes) and more as a message to bike riders ("here's the safe place to ride"). The experiment on Brighton Ave is largely about trying to get bike riders to stay away from the parked car doors...

I think there's a set of drivers who are bewildered by any markings beyond a double-yellow line... and even that... Probably would be people who would fail the driving test if the driving test was a real test.

By the way, let's not forget Ari's work on Longfellow bridge counts: http://amateurplanner.blogspot.com/2013/08/one-chart-shows-change-in-longfellow.html Putting the Red Line aside, there's more human-powered traffic crossing the bridge than motor-powered.

Someone's gotta pay the state trooper to sit around in his car all day at the base of bridge and occasionally get out to harass a passing bicycle rider. Oh, and there's the other one who stands next to the Paul Dudley White path where it intersects the bridge and, I dunno, occasionally directs...

I smell bullshit. Much heavier trains than the Green Line run in all sorts of conditions where they cannot see the signal after the current one, and without any form of PTC or CBTC. And have done so for over a century. That's why signals exist in the first place. The signal exists to tell the...

The reasonable pitch for (3) is to stop having the Green Line make those ridiculously pointless 'stops' inside the tunnel. It's not necessary for safe train operation to do that, as thousands and thousands of train systems all over the world and the Red/Orange/Blue lines demonstrate here. It's...