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ericmbudd, 14 days ago to random

important story about how Colorado has shifted away from highway expansions and is focusing on improved transit, biking, and more sustainable ways of getting around:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/headway/highways-colorado-transportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE0.7zHZ.8dSfYjlKAIqx&smid=url-share

streetsblogmass, 17 days ago to random

The Federal Transit Administration (#FTA) just announced a $68 million grant to help the #MBTA upgrade 14 Green Line streetcar stops and make them ADA-accessible:

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/05/28/washington-pledges-68-million-for-green-line-accessibility-upgrades

luiscotto, 22 days ago to random

Here’s a story on NYCs “congestion pricing” initiative:
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/23/congestion-pricing-boston-traffic

Here’s more info about the June 10 Congestion Pricing event held by @streetsblogmass and @wgbh :
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/05/17/june-10-event-can-you-put-a-price-on-congestion-in-boston

kottke, 1 month ago to random

A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair. “Learning to fix bicycles has changed my outlook on manual labor, on the nature of work, and ultimately on life itself.” https://tegowerk.eu/posts/bicycle-repair/

streetsblogmass, 2 months ago to Massachusetts

#Massachusetts Will Offer Rebates for E-Bike Purchases Starting This Summer

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/04/12/massachusetts-will-offer-rebates-for-e-bike-purchases-this-summer

jeffbyrnes, 4 months ago to fediverse

Hey folks, Better.Boston signups are wide open again!

If you’ve a friend who’s wanted to join our Mastodon server, please let them know!

https://better.boston/auth/sign_up

#fediverse #Mastodon #BostonMA

streetsblogmass, 4 months ago to boston

In the early hours of this morning, a driver struck and killed an unidentified woman on Mass. Ave. near Boston Medical Center – another preventable killing on a street that's notorious for being the worst hotspot for fatal and injury-causing crashes in the entire city.
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/01/24/driver-strikes-and-kills-pedestrian-outside-boston-medical-center

#boston

Bikeyface, 4 months ago to random

Not biking this week. I bike through 4 municipalities plus some DCR & DOT roads to get to work. If you have trouble trying to get your city to plow bike lanes in winter, multiply that by 6 and that’s what I’m dealing with. And each year it’s time to guess who is on top of it, and who will break my commute and leave me pushing my bike over ice mountains for miles. It’s never clear & consistent the whole way, and the unpredictability is the main issue.

streetsblogmass, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

"The X" is notorious as one of the most dangerous intersections in the entire #SpringfieldMA region.

But for an upcoming $19 million reconstruction project, engineers sought exemptions from state safety standards in order to avoid building safer bike and pedestrian infrastructure there:

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/01/15/highway-engineers-sought-exemptions-from-safe-street-design-requirements-in-springfields-19-million-rebuild-of-the-x?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Nathanpboston, 5 months ago to random

RIP 21-yr old Samuel Alvarado, killed while biking yesterday by a garbage truck in Allston.

BigGayShaun, 1 year ago to random

Hi. Can I have a word?

When you use a #Hashtag could you capitalise each word please? That way, people using screen readers will hear each individual word, which means they'll get more useful context as a result.

When you don't capitalise hashtags the words string together and make no sense.

For example #ThisIsHow would read as "This Is How" while #thisishow would sound something like "thissy show". A small change for you but a game changer for many people.

Be nice; get good karma. Thanks.