#NoMoreGhostBikes

Boston street safety advocates keep pressure on city leaders in the wake of cyclist's death

Bike safety advocates say theyare more motivated than ever press city leaders for improvements after the loss of transportation planer Louisa Gag.

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The #Massachusetts House-Senate compromise bill on protecting residents from ICE will only ban *new* 287(g) agreements so that the Department of Correction can continue helping ICE deport people under an existing agreement, something Governor Maura Healey supports. #mapoli

Immigrant protection accord includes state, local enforcement rules for Mass.

Beacon Hill negotiators on Wednesday unveiled a compromise on the closely watched bill that would broaden protections against federal immigration enforcement in Mass., while preserving one key area of...

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Boston is getting my dream car setup - electric Zipcar carshare, and powered by solar panels! What's cool too is since a carshare car is usually only getting driven ~30mi a day, the solar panels are plenty to keep them charged and happy

A new Zipcar pilot pairs shared EVs with off-grid solar charging

A Greater Boston Zipcar pilot is using off-grid solar chargers to bring affordable shared EVs to historically underserved communities.

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Post-cup Boston

If this were an ebike, they'd be banned by cities across the country immediately. Instead, it's just another deadly day in vehicular violence and it will be forgotten about by the next 24 hour news cycle.

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 4d ago

"MNPD said an 87-year-old Kentucky man who was driving a Ford Fusion ran the red light at the 4th and Broadway intersection in downtown Nashville and hit four people."

how else would it work

People who are on their phone a ton while driving clearly don't want to be driving. Let's give them options to look at their phone even more while they go places!

Ernest Luckman@ernieluckman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Just think how distracted you can be on a bus

Right. By all means, PLEASE ticket drivers for phone use. But, among other problems with in-person enforcement, cops can't be deployed everywhere 24/7. That suggests a host of other solutions — such as design changes, automated enforcement, etc. — are needed and, yes, probably better.

trinket ✶@wrennifer.on.bike · 3d ago

According to a traffic study of Washington Street, 1,000-1,200 cars use the street per hour during the morning and evening rush. If the cops were out there for an hour, that's 7.4% of drivers receiving a citation for phone use. I see way more people on their phones while driving where I live.

I'm not being facetious, this is a sincere take, but after spending many many hours over the years mulling solutions to distracted drivers, I've firmly landed on not removing the distracted part but rather the driver part. We need solutions to reduce phone use driving, but also driving.

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ideally you'd have regulations that force car manufacturers and tech companies to disable certain phone features and other digital distractions while the car is in motion. That's a heavy regulatory lift, of course, but the goal of advocates is to speak difficult things into existence.

One city thing I've missed is sitting in a station eating my breakfast across the large shared table from several other people while we all pretend the others don't exist

Hotels that charge a resort fee that can only be used at the on-site restaurant hold be required to offer their full breakfast buffet for the value of the resort fee voucher.

It's been eight years since I last got to ride with Boston Bike Party, so joining Critical Mass tonight for the memorial ride for Lousia was really nice. So many people turned out and I haven't experienced a large group ride like that in ages.

Boston Critical Mass. Ride For Louisa. #NoMoreGhostBikes

New York's Summer Streets program is yet another example of how much noise disappears when the cars go away. It's a reminder that cities aren't loud, cars are loud.

It's been eight years since I last got to ride with Boston Bike Party, so joining Critical Mass tonight for the memorial ride for Lousia was really nice. So many people turned out and I haven't experienced a large group ride like that in ages.

I love soldering because if you fucked it up, don't worry! you can always fuck it up worse next time.

My Red Line train is getting more philosophical automated announcements as we go: "Next stop Wollaston. Doors will open."

I hold this opinion partially for the convenience but also because I've spent hundreds of nights in hotels over the past few years for work that often involves overnight shifts and weird sleep schedules.

Siobhan Thompson@vornietom.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hotel breakfasts should be all day. You don’t know me, you don’t know my life

Thank you B&H for reminding me to not forget the essential accessories like this $265,000 box lens

I'm in this photo and I like it

Christopher Schmidt@crschmidt.net · 3w ago

And not just saxophones: there is a cargo bike for carrying the every type of musical instrument!

Butter:

ceej@ceej.online · 2w ago

stick to jorts

Now that there's no longer a chain of box stores with electronics components everywhere, getting parts same day is harder. Sometimes you have to resort to taking apart old broken equipment for parts: Radio Shuck, if you will.

Oops, what was supposed to be a max one hour devops task accidentally became eight hours again. At least this time it wasn't waiting for cloud runners (mostly) but still a lot of time troubleshooting various chains of deploy config errors. And I'm learning more docker each time!

Enrico🐀@redbassett.com · 4w ago

Look, I know the days of FTPing PHP files onto the server had many pitfalls, but you could also spot issues immediately, instead of only after a bunch of cloud runners finish the deploy pipeline for the umpteenth time

Unironically it's so nice when someone sends me a meeting invite that is listed as two hours on my calendar and then the meeting ends up taking fifteen minutes.

No experience in getting insurance to cover replacement but this *may* vary by location and provider: My home insurance refuses to add my ebike to my coverage because it has a throttle (Class 2), which their underwriter considers a motor vehicle, but claim they would cover Class 1.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2w ago

For my own future reference and yours: NOBODY will cover stolen ebikes unless you get dedicated ebike insurance. Homeowners and renters insurance and AMEX Purchase Protection all consider them motorized vehicles and exclude them from coverage. Learn from my mistakes: GET DEDICATED EBIKE INSURANCE

There are few things as satisfying as blowing past traffic while on public transit @wmata.com delivers

A theme here is that if a person inside city government intervenes on behalf of a restaurant losing parking spots or a random driver getting a parking ticket, that's seen as constituent services. If another government insider works on behalf of keeping people alive, that's seen as advocacy.

StreetsblogMASS@mass.streetsblog.org · 2w ago

A public records request reveals how @mayorwu.boston.gov's election-year "review" of transportation projects created a duplicate layer of authority inside City Hall that fomented confusion and stalled urgent safety initiatives: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/22/f...

Not sure why I feel terrible but in unrelated news I just realized I've been awake for 23 hours...