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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...

Probably the same regs that made it hard for me to pencil out a development here. Parking, setbacks, height, FAR, etc

Reminder that the majority of what this building is replacing was a surface parking lot. 9/10 the only thing I wish is that they incorporated the Sully's sign. Though it wouldn't go with the brick facade, which I love, so maybe for the best. Sidebar, but I did a TOD class in grad school and...

Gotcha, in that case I was misunderstanding and disagree. Why should there be a higher level of penalty for the same behavior just based on hardware? Is there any example of motor vehicles being treated that way? Why are we leaving the opportunity open for discretion on whom to enforce? Just...

I agree that it's the right approach, which is why it's weird to me that they're making it the informal in-practice approach and not the formal on-the-books approach.

I've had friends who advocate in different spaces than transportation send the map to me to make fun of it, I think it's a huge gaff. The globe even did a follow up article today specifically on the AI map...

Happy grant news! Most, but not all of these, are bike centric. I chose to place this news here but understand if mods want to move. First, we have the AARP Community Challenge Grant, where MA was very well over-represented: MassTrails was also announced today, since I lack of a concise...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/24/metro/blue-hill-ave-center-bus-lane-redesign/ Tell me you've never ridden the bus without telling me you've never ridden the bus

lol. Lmao, even. EDIT: Also...what is with the weird Mattapan Line on that map? Not just it being brown, but the stations are all out of whack. Did they use AI to make that?

The rollout of "better buffers" has been so slow I was worried it was dead, but seeing a lot of anecdotes rolling in of cast-in-place concrete!

Totally makes sense! Not having followed the project I was reacting exclusively to the speed headline.

Well that's the kind of lesson I would want to be learned. That maybe said state law, just like many local ordinances we all regularly gripe about, is a net negative on outcomes. Outcomes are what we should be focused on.

Are we going to learn the lessons from this?

Another reason we need to really get into the weeds. The MTA was able to borrow against future congestion pricing revenue to make much needed capital improvements...given that we're in year two of using the millionaires tax for operations idk if we could do the same. But I don't have any sense...