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It has been a terrible couple of days: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/02/metro/identity-of-lynn-cyclist-killed-by-truck-driver-revealed/

Saw one parked on Summer St in Malden this morning. Didn't grab a pic

Touche! Also funnily I was just about to "well actually" your other post with Minneapolis as the example lol. No sea of (surface) parking

I think the general consensus is that baseball/basketball/hockey (especially when combined like TD Garden) can work in and even enliven the urban fabric because of how frequently the space is used whereas a football stadium is, at best, a couple dozen times a year between games and concerts. I...

I'm sure there's something, somewhere, but progress has really ground to a halt. The lack of a master plan for the network in Boston is mind boggling to me.

Was contacted a few times by Markey folks, never by Moulton folks. I was very ready to vote for not-Markey this cycle but Moulton just isn't the guy to do it.

Grew up in southwest CT and fully identify with New England

Regulation isn't an inherently left wing thing. It's been framed thst way post-Reagan but regulation csn absolutely be used to advance right wing objectives. That's what's been the case with the housing market and more left of center politicians need to be explicit in naming it as such

That is...a really small boat

To be fair, the COGs in CT have no power other than as distributors of transpo dollars. But yeah I imagine buy in was easier to get there because the mayors/selectmen are much more directly involved with the COGs as opposed to how most RPAs function in MA. There's significant push for this that...

I wish the state would just abolish the counties and adopt what CT did and use the RPA boundaries as the new regional level of government, then actually allow them to have some jurisdictional power. It shouldn't be on Boston alone to raise the money for red/blue when its benefits directly accrue...

https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/child-riding-bicycle-struck-seriously-injured-wellesley/24ADMTRDG5CYJLWNMNOPUHDKYY/ Looks like a cut through between 9 and 16. Exactly the kind of street that needs some speed humps. Here's hoping for the best for the kid.

Ahhhh now I understand why the state transportation building elevators are under maintenance every other week. Think of the health insurance savings for the taxpayers!

We talked at length in the run up to the primary about how despite the meh-at-best polling for bike lanes it's just such a low salience issue for voters and the results very clearly bore that out. If she runs for senate/governor and her opponents center their campaign around Wu as crazy bike...

Quincy is getting a lot of transit proximate development built. To your point, I wouldn't call it transit-oriented for that exact reason. Unfortunately the Quincy mayor and planning chief are absolutely backwards and behind the times when it comes to urban planning. We've seen it again and...

It could be a useful for YIMBY advocates to try and target prime candidates. For example, I would love to see this overflow parking lot for St. John's in Quincy get turned into a big low income housing development: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CKE7rhmv5Jda8eRY9

There was 500 parking spaces in the original proposal, though the community meeting was strongly pushing for fewer so I don't know if they've come back with amended plans. EDIT: This is just an educated guess, but I would bet the City will try get the developer to pay for some Newport Ave Ext...

Climate change doesn't play very well with the current grant scorers I would imagine. I know we've certainly had to make some changes in how we approach federal grant applications at the MPO

https://advocatenews.net/malden/news/malden-wins-nearly-2-million-grant-for-broadway-improvements/

It's even sadder that so often death isn't even enough to catalyze significant or speedy safety interventions. To my knowledge, there has been nothing done to this day at Sleeper/Congress. We've had 5 peds/cyclists die in a 5 year period on Southern Artery in Quincy between Sea St and McGrath...