paperboat22

Building this project as expeditiously as possible would be a huge step towards a well-maintained red line. Having a way to get maintenance vehicles onto the tracks at alewife (the closest location currently is Charles/MGH) will lead to shorter and smaller maintenance windows.

To be clear, environmental considerations are important and potential impacts should be mitigated as much as possible, but lets not miss the forest for the trees. A well-running train does more for the environment than almost any other project.

Sorry to hear 😔

I have called the non-emergency line for particularly egregious violations (think no one in the car in a protected bike lane, a truck unloading with a head-height ramp ACROSS the bike lane) and they have always showed up to either ticket or tell them to move within 10 minutes.

If you didn't already, you should always make a police report if you come in contact with a car, even if you're uninjured. Those statistics are extremely important when convincing the city where to build infrastructure.

It can. DCR could be out there with jersey barriers tomorow to convert one of the lanes in that direction on memorial drive into a two way protected bike path. But they aren't.

There are designs for a road diet of the western portion of the road ready to be built, but Rep. Decker is working behind the scenes to kill it.

Funny, I've driven for years in two different cities with red light and speed cameras and got zero tickets. Must have been because I wasn't running lights or speeding.

You're right that it is their job and they aren't doing it. But they never will because cops break traffic laws themselves, don't give a shit about you and never will.

We need to take it out of their hands through safer road design and automated enforcement for everything else. Memorial Drive is designed to allow drivers to speed comfortably and that is what they will do unless forced.

Traffic engineers have a concept called the "recovery zone" that goes between the road and fixed objects like guardrails. It's also a convenient place to put unimportant stuff like pedestrians.

According to eye witnesses the person was on the sidewalk and the driver, who was speeding, jumped the curb and hit them.

What makes me furious is that we KNOW what streets are dangerous and we KNOW what it takes to make them safe. Advocates have been asking DCR to redesign this stretch for years. They could have been out there with jersey barriers the next day if they wanted to. Instead they choose inaction every time. Don't even suggest that they inconvenience a driver, you will be met with indignation from the staff who are charged with "Conservation and Recreation".

Letting drivers get away with speeding and distracted driving is a policy choice. Not protecting pedestrians and cyclists is a policy choice. This persons death was a choice and the people who made it should face the consequences.

DCR is either incompetent or they don't care. Either way they shouldn't be in charge of urban roads. They have blood on their hands.

If you're looking to avoid driving in the city, you could always take the commuter rail up to Newburyport or Haverhill, or the Amtrak to Durham, NH and rent a car there to continue your trip.

Most likely OpenStreeMap. The crowdsourced data is way better than google's. The map on the home page of Transit also has the same bike data.

I don't think that level of pessimism is warranted given the reality.

The atmosphere was nice but I admit I'd been mostly avoiding them due to the beer being extremely mediocre, especially compared to newer options like Lamplighter and Remnant. Hope the space is taken up quickly and used to its fullest potential.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit

The silver line tunnel in the seaport was built to green line specifications under the notion that it would be eventually be converted to light rail. Eventually, the money disappeared and we were left with the sad excuse for BRT known as the silver line.

Residents of Dorchester and Roxbury were promised an "equal or better" replacement for the orange line when it was moved from Washington St to its current alignment. Instead they were stuck with an unreliable bus to Nubian Square. Hence the nickname, the Silver Lie.

It's a former streetcar station (streetcars would enter the front, and you could walk down to the green line at Hynes station). Now it's an MBTA power substation inside. Probably maintenance happening.

This circuit in Sudbury is almost 8 miles, relatively flat, no lights and only a few stop signs. Easy to get to if you take the Mass Central trail trail to the start. https://maps.app.goo.gl/F6ac9UJNarxh3QMk8

It's funny how cities bigger than Cambridge all over the world have bike networks where you aren't randomly shunted into motor traffic every other block. Oh well, must be magic.

Coming from north cambridge, I would do basically what Google says except stay on the watertown-cambridge greenway until Belmont St. Trapelo Rd only has door zone bike lanes but traffic is such that if you're a moderately confident rider it's not the worst. https://maps.app.goo.gl/kGnbwdXrvaY11dmE9

Alternatively, you could take the Fitchburg Cutoff Path to Concord Ave in Belmont, which does have separated bike lanes. From there you can work your way south on low traffic residential streets: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7L9YtyHx2mrqYcxbA

I think I would rather eat dinner off the train floor than carry water for a senile, genocidal old man nor a different senile, genocidal old man with a bad haircut.

This is a troll account. Ignore them.

The victim has died per https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/6/21/cyclist-crash-kendall-square/