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There has been a couple cases where their stated explanation is that they want to have minimal active construction going on during the WC, so they're delaying full implementation. I think reasonable people can disagree on the approach, but it seems consistent

Leading pedestrian intervals, curb bump outs, refuge islands (when there's 4+ lanes), raised crosswalks/intersections...there's plenty of treatments that can be done that are proven effective without needing to go through the herculean effort of retiming half the city's signals (since it would...

A) The existing system clearly doesn't B) Can you articulate why trying to coerece them to close by midnight is a societal good? This particular route is going about it by punishing the most vulnerable employees and...what? Hoping enough quit that the business becomes unsustainable? Rather...

I was working in food service at the time of the most recent pilot and can attest it was a massive boon for the industry. The T indirectly shapes it. Having done nearly a decade across a few spots, I would never consider places open past T service. Plenty of coworkers in both front/back of house...

He has a history of doing such, and it almost always results in the city selling the land at a loss to one of three developers. Or a heavily subsidized parking garage ($1 hour) that is still perpetually empty. Great question. We're buying it without that being articulated because the only...

Would it? The T got more aggressive with these because the public response wasn't what had long been feared it would have been. Personally, I have long standing terrible memories of the seemingly endless night/weekend shuttles of the braintree branch 2019-2021. It's basically switching from a...

https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/politics/government/2026/04/29/quincy-ma-to-buy-eastern-nazarene-college-enc/89854064007/ Probably deserves its own thread, but I will be strongly encouraging my councilor to not approve the bond. We have far too much debt to letting Koch continue to...

Transportation demand modelling is an unreliable and pseudo-scientific field at best and astrology at worst. It's deferred to so much because it gives a veneer of quantitive/technocratic backing in a profession that is deeply, deeply self conscious about justifying their decision making in ways...

Koch is allergic to small lot development and ground floor retail

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/24/metro/double-parking-mattapan-square/ Posting here because it's where almost all the Blue Hill Ave conversation has happened, but maybe it's (probably past) time for a dedicated thread?

Second location

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/22/metro/boston-city-council-streets-project-slowdown-hearing/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/23/science/massachusetts-nuclear-power-renaissance-chernobyl/ The article really seems to lean into the scare-mongering

Fitting this was put out on 4/20.

https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/local/2026/04/21/braintree-ma-residential-plan-townhomes-apartments-condos/89548636007/ If approved, we're looking at over 1100 units across three projects coming down the pike in Braintree in over the next couple of years. Though this one would have to...

Yeah yeah I love bikes and buses and trains and all that, but my real favorite mode of transportation is the canoe. Just got back from a week long trip to Utah where I got to do some paddling on the Green River and hiking in Arches National Park.

Well, yeah. Yet another data point in his history of poor political instincts. I think Platner had a much savvier response in just calling it for what it is: (source)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/08/real-estate/boston-livability-seaport-new-construction-infrastructure/

What's an example of a free market then?

Imagine thinking this is a bad thing