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4 story buildings? In my town center!? It's more likely than you think. Seriously though do we need to treat pearl clutching over the prospect of a town seeing a ~10% population increase over a decade as if its good faith?

Is it that crazy in a US context where the person riding is going to regularly be expected to operate in mixed traffic?

On a webinar with State Sen. Crighton right now, who just said they expect to introduce a bill soon to adopt the commission's recommendations. EDIT: Some of the most interesting slides from said webinar. It seems we really have a middle school boys problem. (As a former middle school...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/car-free-living-units-allston-march-4-2026-banker-tradesman-1wxwe/ 201-207 Brighton Ave 145 units, 0 parking. Designated pick-up/drop off space

I think to frame this as the tradeoff is disingenuous. As others have pointed out the only ones creating a "trees vs housing" discussion is Holden, by their own choice. Densify the town center and get a WRTA route there. Everybody wins. I don't think you'll find anyone here who disagrees with...

This is a good point, I should mention that the up-to-25mph pedal assist on my bike is still not easy to reach 25mph on unless I'm going downhill or really working, and I'm a fairly athletic man.

One piece I'll concede, as as has been mentioned for other areas where's there's been conflict, I don't think it would be a big ask of the state to help set up WRTA service between the Worcester commuter rail and Holden if they do the zoning. Though for all I know Holden would actively oppose...

I'd say "motorized assist up to 28mph", aligning with the commonly accepted definition of a class III bike and assuming the state adopts such as their definition as well. So not a ton of daylight between our positions there but I think it's important daylight for the reasons above. Happy to let...

It's replacing a duplex so I'm trying to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and I've gone on in this thread about my loathing of Avalon's car-centric approach to density, but yeah, man. Yet another large, transit-proximate development in Quincy with massive wasted potential. Who would...

A 15 year old Toyota Corolla can go over 100mph. Saying Maserati is just hyperbole to make a point. You cannot effectively regulate what types of micromobility are going to access a shared use path. Mopeds, dirtbikes, and motorcycles are visually distinct enough to restrict those. A class III...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/02/metro/route-1-north/

Quincy's new multi-modal master plan: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/00b54f99435340ee95426ed43f0f752e/page/Project-Documents Does a very good job of illustrating that almost every non-residential road is hostile for cycling (level of traffic stress 3-4) with almost all the main...

Yeah I was a little more diplomatic about it when I was questioning them during the presentation but trying to enforce shared used path usage by hardware via "micro ID" rather than on user behavior is nonsense, and their response being that it at least allows accountability after the fact of a...

For discussion of TDM efforts in the region as well as TDM strategies in general. Wanted to share this bill that State Sen. Keenan introduced this session but didn't see an appropriate thread: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1346/PrimarySponsorSummary The bill would allow employees that...

More than half of our transit conversations are trying to get us back to where we were in the mid-20th century.

Hartford Line already exceeds one per hour during portions of weekday service? https://hartfordline.com/fares-schedules/

Back on the topic of snow clearance, the Globe is doing a reader survey on whether the city should be responsible for sidewalk clearing: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/23/opinion/boston-snow-sidewalk-shoveling-reader-survey/

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/23/massdot-awards-6-6-million-for-municipal-complete-streets-projects