If you want to speak up in favor of this new housing project on the Arborway rotary you can submit a comment here Boston needs a lot more housing! www.bostonplans.org/projects/dev...

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Development Projects and Planned Development Areas (PDAs) that the Development Review division is coordinating.

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡@thebostonlol.bsky.social · 6d ago

FYI there are flyers all over JP screaming SAVE THE ARBORETUM!!! Oh noes! Is the Arboretum in danger? No, no it's not, it's a NIMBY petition 😒😮‍💨 @universalhub.com

In 2025 we ("we" is mostly Europe) know how to build streetcars. Give them level boarding, smooth rails, modern cars and signal priority, and they have advantages over buses (electric, smooth, fast, narrow profile). But we don't do any of this in North America!

My sinking feeling as a public defender in 2026 is that Americans are more obsessed with incarcerating people right now than they've been at any point in my entire career

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration

In West Rox, we've been trying to figure out what "block the bike lane" means when parking over the line into the buffer. A working rule that makes sense is whether both tires are on or outside the "outer" line of the buffer. In this photo, the rear car is OK, the front car should get a ticket.

We need to stop acting like bike infra is a luxury that should be up for debate and start treating it like the public safety and public health infra it is.

Josh Crough@smokeycrow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bicycling infrastructure saves lives, period. #bikesky

Basically BlueSky has run into the facts that a) people are not very good at expected value calculations, and b) the expected utility of a bet isn't the same as the expected monetary value, and c) people may not be risk neutral anyway, and for some reason these three facts are making people angry.

it's time to live mas

John Wick Cocking Pistol - Keanu Reeves

ALT: John Wick Cocking Pistol - Keanu Reeves

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heaumeau e. rotacism@vashwood.bsky.social · 2w ago

joining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell

Something I think about a lot is how the US created a system that produces safe, clean, virtually limitless drinking water for every citizen -- a political & engineering miracle for the ages! -- & then went ahead & created a huge, polluting, pointless bottled water industry anyway.

This is possible in southwest Boston, for sure!

Jacob E. Peters@archijake.bsky.social · 2w ago

A huge amount of suburban areas could support car free living with a few tweaks to rail service, some well located grocery stores, & reallocation of comparatively small amounts of road capacity towards protected bike lanes. Each one of those improvements could divert lots of miles of car usage.

Update: Blue Cross, the title sponsor of the @ridebluebikes.bsky.social system, is offering a limited number of $10 ride credits during this week's Red Line shutdown. To redeem, use the code BLUECROSSMBTA26 in the Bluebikes app. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/20/t...

The Red Line Is Taking Summer Break July 21-30 - Streetsblog Massachusetts

The MBTA is suspending Red Line service north of downtown Boston for 10 consecutive days starting on Tuesday, July 21.

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The most frustrating thing about the @mbta.com's system for displaying bus arrivals is how it gaslights poor riders into believing the bus is on its way, and then simply restarts the clock after the window has passed. It is a system that only reminds you what SHOULD happen, not what IS happening.

Kristen Halbert@khalbert.bsky.social · 2w ago

It is not, in fact, arriving

I can fault Mayor Wu for many things. Courage isn’t one of them. Her showing up took guts, and she said the right things. Let’s hold her, and all our officials, to what is said in times like these when the right path is obvious. 12/?

Vigil to honor Louisa Gag at Boston City Hall and Call for Urgent Street-Safety Action. Thursday July 16 at 5:30pm Attendees are encouraged to wear yellow in support of Vision Zero.

Real idea: As part of the effort to get DC and PR statehood, next Dem president should invent about State Weeks. Each of the 52 states gets its own celebration week every year. A random July week is Montana week. Tourism bonanzas. Televised lottery every year for week placement. We ain't above this.

I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.

Reminder that any remotely rational "MAHA" would focus on cars. Cars sicken & kill Americans far far more than f'ing "processed foods" or whatever.

staple the snack wrappers to your union cards to demonstrate dominance

AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · 2mo ago

Take the bosses’ snacks, then form a union anyway.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I feel it’s sort of underrated the extent to which a Dem Congress and/or states could (1) absolutely destroy car dealerships as a business, and (2) this would cripple a lot of GOP state and local parties

I fucking love birthright citizenship

The next Open House for @ridebluebikes.bsky.social stations in Hyde Park, Roslindale, and West Roxbury is tonight, and it's virtual! Register and join at tinyurl.com/expansion-june

City of Boston Streets Cabinet@streets.boston.gov · 3mo ago

New @ridebluebikes.bsky.social stations are on the way! We're working to make our public bike share more reliable and convenient, and we need your help. Come to one of our upcoming open house events, or share your feedback using our survey: boston.gov/bike-share-expansion

A Boston bike commuter posted a video on reddit of nearly being killed by a speeding pick-up truck driver racing to a red light. Something non-cyclists probably don't realize is that it's not uncommon for riders to have multiple encounters like this on a ride. Source: www.reddit.com/r/bikecommut...

Open House tonight in West Roxbury! Find out more at boston.gov/bike-share-expansion @west-roxbury.boston.gov @ridebluebikes.bsky.social

City of Boston Streets Cabinet@streets.boston.gov · 3mo ago

New @ridebluebikes.bsky.social stations are on the way! We're working to make our public bike share more reliable and convenient, and we need your help. Come to one of our upcoming open house events, or share your feedback using our survey: boston.gov/bike-share-expansion

A few years ago, during the drama over our Centre Street redesign project here in West Roxbury, a man confronted me at a Mayor's Coffee Hour. (I was there advocating for it.) (1/6)

Doug Gordon@brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a way to run transportation planning in the greatest city in the world. www.westsiderag.com/2026/06/03/u...

Simpsons did it!

Placing an order of these for Centre Street West Roxbury!

Peter Cheung@bostonaruban.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Installation of concrete cast-in-place barriers on State Street.