Same. The Globe is not what it once was. It caters to the burbs readers who think they're progressive but are actually just bourgeois conservatives. Just like Kraft.
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I prefer the term “comfortable progressives”. They are progressives until the moment that it might make them less comfortable than they presently are.
I think the fairly well-established term is "liberal hypocrite"... and, of course, and more specific to housing/transit policy, "NIMBY."
Chestnut Hill ave Brookline to receive protected bike lanes.
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Chestnut Hill Avenue Improvements | Brookline, MA - Official Website
Chestnut Hill Avenue has been identified in the Roadway Maintenance Plan for preservation treatments, and the Town proposes to incorporate bicycle improvements into that project.
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Outrageous! Maybe Josh Kraft can run for town selectman when he loses the mayors election in BostonChestnut Hill ave Brookline to receive protected bike lanes.
Chestnut Hill Avenue Improvements | Brookline, MA - Official Website
Chestnut Hill Avenue has been identified in the Roadway Maintenance Plan for preservation treatments, and the Town proposes to incorporate bicycle improvements into that project.
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Yeah, and the place where the reporter chose to ask for anecdotes was on Next Door, not exactly a bastion of urbanism. Some bike activists saw it and many did send her commentary, but I don't think she used much of it. What bothered me most about the article, though, is the line about demanding data from the city. I don't know whether the city responded, but as a reporter, shouldn't she have been able to do some research and find some data if it wasn't handed to her by somebody else? The data is out there, did she really not know how to find it? What are they teaching at journalism schools?
Boston’s bike lane wars have entered the mayoral race. But who owns the road? - The Boston Globe
The crowd at Josh Kraft’s mayoral kickoff went wild when he promised to “pause” construction of new bike lanes. But are the lanes a cause of Boston’s traffic and parking woes? Or a way to solve them?www.bostonglobe.com
The article asks a lot of questions it seems like the point was to answer and then never does that. No stats, no data, just repeating the anecdotes heard from people who emailed the author. This is front and center on the Globe's webpage this morning.
Me too!
Plans have been posted for Chestnut hill ave
Bike Share Expansion 2024-2025
We are working to make our public bike share more reliable and convenient for you to use. We will add more stations in every neighborhood across Boston. We are adding stations to high demand areas, and expanding into new areas too!
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Bluebikes are expanding again!
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Bike Share Expansion 2024-2025
We are working to make our public bike share more reliable and convenient for you to use. We will add more stations in every neighborhood across Boston. We are adding stations to high demand areas, and expanding into new areas too!
Bluebikes are expanding again!
Amazing. BlueBikes are a major success story, I think, for the Boston area. Convenient, cheap, easy to use, gets new people on bikes, and makes it so much easier to get around the city.
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BlueBikes are amazing. I hope to see BlueBikes expand to all cities and towns inside 128 within a few years. Eventually, some communities outside of 128 should probably have them, too (Braintree, Danvers, Framingham, Natick, Needham, Norwood, Reading, Wellesley).
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Love them too. I do wish the newer generation bikes could be a built a (bit) more lightweight, however. I get that it helps with reliability and lifespan but a 45lb bike really deters people who are smaller or have less muscle strength (younger teenagers, smaller women, elderly) from using them (or using them without sweating profusely).
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This is the last thing we need.
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Boston Is Removing Protective Barriers From New Bikeways - Streetsblog Massachusetts
A City Hall spokesperson declined to say whether the removals are permanent, or only temporary.
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Unless the flex posts are slated to be replaced with real bollards, then this is a significant problem.This is the last thing we need.
Boston Is Removing Protective Barriers From New Bikeways - Streetsblog Massachusetts
A City Hall spokesperson declined to say whether the removals are permanent, or only temporary.
This is the last thing we need.
Boston Is Removing Protective Barriers From New Bikeways - Streetsblog Massachusetts
A City Hall spokesperson declined to say whether the removals are permanent, or only temporary.
Replaced, sure, absolutely, especially if they're being upgraded to more solid bollards in response to demonstrated safety concerns of people driving their cars through the flex-posts.
Removing protection from the bike lane because cars are hitting the protective element, which we've unfortunately seen before, is knowingly and willfully putting people's safety at risk. And for what? So the doordash driver can pick up Starbucks from the Arlington St location a minute faster?
This removal is quite odd. I'm hoping in the coming few days the city will announce a press release saying they will replace with new/more sturdy barriers by a certain date. It'd be really weird just to leave the lanes unprotected since it doesn't make car throughput any better (since causing traffic is the main argument against bike lanes). The main thing we need to worry about is if this is a intermediate step towards removing the lane entirely.
Public meetings are great because people consistently just tell on themselves.
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Maybe this is just blind optimism, but the information coming directly from the city really did seem to support the idea that flexposts would be replaced with nicer, permanent barriers. Nothing has been explicit (or even implicit IMO) about removing any bike lanes. The aesthetics of old flexposts does genuinely seem to be a key issue here, and I can't say I disagree. Even when they're not hit by cars, they do become discolored and grimy quite quickly. The North Beacon St bike lanes have been in for less than 6 months and the flexposts are in pretty rough shape. Getting these replaced by concrete barriers and/or planters would look a whole lot better.
Regardless of the end result here, it is disappointing that the flexposts are being removed before a replacement is being installed (or even any plan communicated). Leaving the lanes unprotected, even if only for a few days or weeks, puts cyclists at risk. I fully expected BTD and this administration to do better, and hope they do in the future.
For more context, here's the initial Streetsblog article on the Boylston Street bus lane removal, which also included info on bus/bike lane changes (emphasis mine):