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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/opinion/school-bus-costs/ Coming from an edu background this has long been a pet issue of mine. I hate that last line in the article, it's become so deeply ingrained that its a school district's responsibility to provide yet another subsidy for sprawl by...

Road Safety Audit for Five-Corners and the intersection of Forbes/Granite has been published: https://tooledesign.egnyte.com/fl/4bCqh4jHBQwV The biggest piece I'd note is the recommendation to remove the slip lane at the I-93 NB Exit 6 ramp that empties onto Granite St SB. Mostly otherwise a...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/business/roxbury-development-madison-park/

If it weren't CT's capital, Hartford would be full on Waterbury. Very little going for it structurally.

This sounds like an ADA nightmare

We should be making non-autonomous taxis do this anyway and iirc Kenmore was the exact neighborhood Boston ran a successful pilot of that with (or, it was a designated drop off area within Kenmore rather than outside of it, but similar in concept). Edit: one thing I want to dive deeper on is...

The lawsuit point is fascinating. I was wondering if Quincy was leaving itself open to ADA lawsuits by not requiring residents to shovel. Mind blowing that the suits are going in the opposite direction.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/metro/waymo-boston-self-driving-cars/ I'm deeply skeptical of their widespread viability in complex urban environments, though people seem to like them in SF and Austin from the little I've looked into it. I just don't see how they can be both convenient...

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/train-derails-in-mansfield-officials-say/3696509/?_branch_match_id=1438298017978666034

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/1/27/pedestrian-jfk-street/

And somehow people dealing with hardly useable sidewalks and bus stops manage to keep their heads. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/metro/space-saver-fight-dorchester

"We're going to build east-west rail and the nutmeggars are going to pay for it!"

What is the pitch for this? Would they eliminate Porter?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/snow-removal-equipment-breakdown-9.7065208 They haven't been having a banner year themselves. Sadly I think you could apply this statement to a host of issues in urban planning. And yet here we are. Planning best practices have a huge...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/metro/ri-dot-director-peter-alviti-resigns/

Not saying I endorse this idea in the specific, but we do need to be considering how we can better manage major snow events (particularly as the climate is heading towards higher intensities of precipitation when they do come) and it's people who aren't driving that are presently most impacted.

Oh, please. It's been a coddling enforcement of what is already a milquetoast, hand-holding law that does not go half as far enough to address the actual housing crisis in the state. Cut the hysterics. If the state wanted to it could simply hand Middleton a zoning map and tell them this is how...

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/02/02/middleton-loses-2-million-infrastructure-grant/ It's an interesting case - the project is at the intersection of two MassDOT jurisdiction roadways and tied in with the construction of a 60 unit project that the state is theoretically trying to...

https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/local/2026/02/02/sprouts-farmers-market-7-brew-coffee-shop-approved-weymouth-ma-honda/88415496007/ The store and coffee shop have been approved

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/01/opinion/somerville-snow-shovel-teens/ Been talking a lot about winter maintenance of bike/ped facilities this past week. Low hanging fruit here.