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2023 Boston Globe Magazine Bostonian of the Year
Great sign for the commute when Acela rolls by at 10mph 😵💫
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 7d agoEvery conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"
I saw an actual mummy driving a C4 corvette today And not a Boris Karloff type thing either I’m talking Ptolemaic at least
20 books in the aubrey-maturin series, one season per book, eight to ten episodes per season, we're building a new hms surprise from scratch to film in and those actors are getting press ganged into a full decade of public service in the king's navy
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · last wk.youve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd
Gotta drive gotta drive Gotta drive to the beach Gotta drive on the beach Gotta drive
Seaport in a nutshell - two Fisker Ocean courtesy cars illegally parked in the bike lane
Woah, never seen this style of bike rack for a coach bus before
The data show that Somerville and Cambridge increased bike ridership while reducing crashes involving bikes. Boston reversed it's progress on this front in 2025.
Safer Streets Now: How Brookline Can Learn from its Neighbors to Achieve Vision Zero — Brookline Insights
Somerville, Cambridge, and Boston offer insights as Brookline strives to eliminate crashes resulting in deaths and serious injuries.
brooklineinsights.com
A decade ago, Florida stripped a teacher of her license for sexually abusing a 16-year-old. Last year, she opened a private school there with ease. As private schools fueled by taxpayer dollars proliferate, states are choosing not to closely regulate who runs them or what they teach:
Barns, Go-Karts and Strip Malls: The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter
propublica.org
Some of the most egregious red light running I’ve seen on Ruggles Street directly outside BPD HQ
Concur. But more precisely, people believed that *mixed-traffic streetcars* were outdated. There was plenty of grade-separated rapid transit built during the postwar era: BART, the CTA Congress and O'Hare branches, the MBTA Green Line D branch...
I think the conspiracy is comforting to people -- "a few bad guys did this." The reality -- "electeds, planners, and most of the public believed that the car was the future and rail transit was outdated" is actually more unsettling since it raises the question of what we're getting wrong now.
There was, however, one exception to this: Minneapolis-St Paul. There, a finance bro, the mob, and a crooked lawyer really did buy the trains and sell them for scrap - but that was the exception, not the rule. 12/12
How a Lawyer, a Businessman, and the Mafia Destroyed Public Transit in the Twin Cities
There is a common folk theory that the North American streetcar disappeared because of a conspiracy. Allegedly, industrialists connected with the auto and motor bus industries bought up North Ameri…
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This thread and the replies are incredible nonsense. Someone accusing Robert Moses of ruining “multiple cities”
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3w agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3w agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
Sometimes you can just tell someone’s a Habsburg before you even read the caption
Quite the contrast to this honkin’ big Edo Period hand cannon… should we be surprised the tsar lost the Russo Japanese war
HorselessAge@horselessage.bsky.social · 3w agoCertified Romanov Moment
