Ellery 🌻 🌈 🚲 🎶
@ElleryKlein
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She’s a fiddle-toting advocate for livable, kid-safe, bikeable, walkable, music-filled, transit-served cities; Mastadon @biknmusicmama @better .boston
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If not even the library can be a third space for kids in your town, then your municipality has some serious soul-searching to do.
Town to kids:
Please spend your afternoons at home on TikTok.
Signed, The Library
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Needing to buy a $20k-$100k vehicle just so you can leave the house
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Definitely the phones
People are so unwilling to blame iPhones as one of the main culprits in a variety of social ills but graphs like are revealing. It’s obviously the phones.
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Reminder that this was done by being "anti-car." Space, and lots of it, taken from cars.
We can't "promote sustainable transportation" without being real about taking away space and rights from, and adding costs to, car owners.
Paris saw bicycle usage double in the last 4 years. This follows a decade of investments in a safe, comfortable, cycling network & the announcement of an additional 180km of cycle paths & 130,000 bike parking spaces by 2026.
📍 Paris 🇫🇷
🎥
@EmmanuelSPV
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The weirdest thing about this is how universal it seems to be. Did cops all over America decide to stop enforcing traffic laws as a national union agreement? Are everyone's brains compromised from COVID infections? What is the reason drivers have become so dangerous?
How did we get to point where so many drivers are just speeding thru stop signs, often barely slowing down like these two along Hudson Ave? And what is
@CityOfPeekskill
doing in response to this issue, which has really gotten out of control lately?
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It’s funny how conservatives go on and on about how soft and entitled kids are these days and then will fight tooth and nail against trying to make society more like this.
Turns out you can take 2 kids to the swimming pool & back in January by bike, when it’s hammering with rain ☔️& blowing a gale 💨
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@FaithfullyBP
Our family enjoyed stumbling across this old church that was turned into a public library building in
#quebec
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Sometimes I think “maybe I am just on Twitter too much and I am out of touch and have become a little too radicalized” and then I go out for an hour walk to get some fresh air
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The weird American obsession with seperating physical activity from living
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@stargirlheaven
@BarbBanfieldRN
Being autistic means not caring about those silly social graces. It’s a good trait in an advocate.
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Hey, look at all the jobs being created as we make the streets safer and provide more choices in transportation
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Did my first commute on my new e-bike, 16 miles round trip yesterday. 16 degrees on the way home- with layers on- and it was glorious.
The perfect amount of exercise, 3/4 gallon gas not burned.
Drivers, consider how much less angry you’d be if your commute looked like this:
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@Bee_Bailey
"And no one got hurt" - the horrific scenes from the 20-year-old film "High way of Death" they showed me in drivers' ed in 1990 would beg to differ. (Nice of them to show me how the DOTS don't care.)
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The amount people spend on cars has always been mind-boggling to me. This is insanity.
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The woman that was killed at Mass and Cass this past week, was killed after the
@CityOfBoston
removed bike lane protections "to keep drivers safe."
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The median salary in the US in 2021 was $51,480.
So spending $30k on a car still seems like absolute financial madness to me.
Even if you make $100k… a $30k car is 1/3 of your income!
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Noticing lately that there are idling cars everywhere. Not just at shops or schools, but literally just on random side streets, people sitting in idling cars. At parks even. I don’t get it.
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The solution to climate change is not to make everyone buy an EV car. It's to try to get people out of cars, to own fewer cars, and to offer alternatives that center people over vehicles.
Part of what’s lost in unbalanced electric car debate is, cities are waking up to hard trade-offs between housing for humans, & parking for cars — and parking must lose.
That will make it harder for EVs to work in cities: They need subsidized parking even more than gas cars do.
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@boris456852
@HarmaninToronto
See how their feet are on the pedals? That means they are moving.
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Asked a woman with an off leash dog if she had a leash and she chirpily said “no!” The steady increase in off leash dogs is yet another issue. Seriously why. Just why.
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Someone should tell Americans that you can also buy/rent trailers for your…car…when you go camping. You don’t have to buy a Highlander and burn all that gas because you camp 1-2 times a year.
Ask New Zealanders.
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It’s kind of interesting making a commitment to take transit and not drive and finding most of your friends who say they are about climate change get annoyed or at least mystified that you are doing this.
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All the things I want my city to spend money on instead of EV car chargers:
Fixing sidewalks
Bike lanes
Bike racks
E-bike incentives
Speed governors for city vehicles
Trees
Bus benches
Bus shelters
Real time bus info
Wayfinding signs
Benches
Public restrooms
Housing
Art
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One thing I didn't anticipate when I stopped driving was realizing how many boring conversations people have about parking cars.
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@LAmag
I’m sorry, what? She chose to murder two children w/negligent, homicidal driving. I wish more drivers faced these consequences and our leaders made the changes to street infrastructure that allow a woman like this to erase two lives so thoughtlessly, confident her $ will save her
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If it doesn’t feel safe biking with a toddler on the back of your bike, it’s not good enough.
Bike infrastructure needs to be designed for the people who aren’t cycling…yet.
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Seriously someone explain to me why we insist on building these things with no balconies. Why!?
Six-story apartment building approved for where the CVS used to be on Comm. Ave. in Allston
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Like smoking in public places, I hope this is a topic that shocks people, makes them mad, swear government has gone mad - and then, when the air is cleaner and quieter, crashes are greatly diminished, people will find it hard to believe we once lived like this.
California would become the first state to require new vehicles be equipped with speed governors — technology that limits how fast they can be driven — under legislation by San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener.
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While tweeting about tr*cks is a apparently good way to rapidly expand your block list, I am going to test this again by saying: this vehicle is too large to be safe. And the fragile men who lose their minds when you point this out are not fit to be behind the wheel.
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My letter to the editor in today's
@BostonGlobe
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"A June 4 letter from Ernest Loewenstein asserted that pedestrians bear a responsibility for their own safety and suggested that they travel wearing high-visibility reflective gear.
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"Pedestrian crash?"
A driver smashed their car into someone walking on the road and the local news still insists on reporting it like two people bumped into each other on the sidewalk. This crash was ghoulish and someone is dead because of a driver.
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A man in my city bought a single family and hoped to turn it into a three family so his kids and parents could also live there. Town has dragged this out in denials for years, but please tell me more about this “preference” you mention
Planners' preference for urban density should not supersede Americans' preferences for suburban or exurban living.
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“Thanks to Biden I am driving this and not my F150” -with a plate so tampered you can’t even tell what state it is.
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The three Bs- we need a million:
-bollards
-benches
-bathrooms
The fact that there’s no public bathroom in or nearby Patricia’s Green is a policy failure.
San Francisco needs more public bathrooms — and benches — especially in and nearby our parks.
We need a mayor who prioritizes these common sense improvements to our city’s public spaces.
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Actually the lesson is, bike to Trader Joe’s
Trader Joe's parking lots are sometimes critiqued for their small size, but this keeps overhead costs and prices down, while maximizing sales per square foot—and people keep coming back. The lesson? Build places worth spending time in and people won't mind the extra time to park.
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@corsent
@thesusanito
OMG. Babies stop crying when they realize no one will meet their needs when they do. Babies cry to communicate their needs! I know you know this but this is so heartbreaking to read how they tortured babies as prep for adoption.
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The solution to climate change is not everyone buying an EV.
Think about the sheer amount of raw materials it would take to produce 1 car for each person on earth. Car-centric cities are just fundamentally unsustainable.
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Cars going 70 mph are twice as loud as cars going 60 mph.
Safety isn’t the only reason to reduce our speeds. Noise pollution is deadly and harmful too.
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E-bikes are a car replacement, not a bike replacement.
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I religiously drive the speed limit these days, when I drive.
One thing I have noticed is that driving 25 mph gives you that total relaxed feeling you had driving in like 1984. Back when we weren’t rushing all the time.
Drivers, think “retro” and just …chill.
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“Safe 👏 systems 👏
do not 👏 depend 👏 on drunk people 👏
making 👏 good decisions!”
@USDOT
Transit is 20 - 60 times safer than driving. Safe systems do not depend on millions of drunk people, many of them teenagers and college students, making good choices.
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Parents: teach your children how to take the bus.
You can do this years before they ever learn to drive a car.
Why are we this late into the spring semester and I’m still having to teach college students that they need to pull the stop request if they want to get off the bus
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Getting my town to install $375 bike racks for everyone instead of $20k EV car chargers for those residents making $200k a year on average
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This woman just voted against making it easier to get around without a car in Cambridge, MA.
Transportation is FORTY PERCENT of Massachusetts emissions. She voted yesterday to maintain that in the most "progressive" city in the nation.
Congratulations to climate champion City Councilor Patty Nolan on your re-election!
@pattynolan1
#mapoli
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I am old enough to remember when bottled water first came out and people made fun of it. Then it became normal. I go to Costco and people living in a city with incredible tap water are buying cases of water bottles from a tap in Atlanta or something
One of the stupidest things we do as a species is produce billions of plastic bottles to hold water, when it would make more sense to invest in systems which provide safe tap water. Even in the UK where tap water is clean, we sell bottled water. Ban it.
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This is so true.
When you travel by foot you clearly see the Mad Max world we live in, with bumpers, glass and broken pedestrian signs everywhere, reminding you it could be you next.
When you move around primarily or exclusively by car, you may not see the evidence of car crashes around you:
bent sign posts
broken car pieces
broken windshield glass
tire marks, etc.
For those who travel by 🚶🏻, 🚲 & 🚌 these reminders are everywhere on sidewalks & streets.
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I don't want to live like this.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams announces body scanners, meant to detect firearms, will be rolled out in subway stations
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This picture from this angle really shows how awful these trucks and SUVs are for human life.
@peter_graham
@humantravl
@WandswrthLabour
I think SUVs are special kind of danger to kids. How are they not?
#Cars
are a special kind of danger to kids and these stupid excuses for mobility are bigger with impossible sightlines. Shouldn't be legal.
#carCulture
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@lifetimeadopt
Not a house?
A house might help, but that humane solution that respects the dignity, humanity and human rights of the mother would disrupt “the domestic supply of infants” needed by legalized human traffickers, wouldn’t it?
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I would say 1 out of two cars that pass me on a bike now are rage passes. Just seeing a bike, they have to rip past me at 45. Drivers need to chill out.
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I made it to Finland in my binge on
@TheWarOnCars
and can’t stop thinking about the Finnish priorities when designing roads:
1. Pedestrians (aka, humans)
2. Bikes
3. Public transit
4. Transport of goods
5. Cars
Then I think about America, where it’s:
1) cars
2) stuff people buy
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The horrific screams from the injured person in this video really drive home how our leaders should care more about this.
Instead they allow us to be unsafe at the gym, in an ice cream shop, on the street corner….in a car.
WILD VIDEO: Dallas Police are investigating after a car crashed into SWEAT Dallas gym on Lovers Lane.
The crash injured two people, according to DPD.
@wfaa
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The mental gymnastics of someone who can’t imagine a world where people can just walk to the store without being crushed by a driver is something to behold. Car brain is a disease.
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After two years of committing to cycling I have really noticed, when I am forced to drive, how little I can see from the windshield. Cars literally blind us to the world around us.
Disastrous US pedestrian safety trends are due in part to vehicle design. Massive vehicles with high front ends have vast blind spots. We have been here before. Long front ends have also limited drivers’ views. In 1941 automotive engineer Arthur Stevens proposed this redesign.
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@thebostonlol
@LAmag
@JasonMcGahan
The exact same as if she went out and played a frisky game of “shoot into the crowd of kids” but for some reason because her weapon was a car, she’s the real victim here.
??????
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Most Americans drive cars, even liberals- and cars limit your imagination.
That’s a problem.
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If you were a parent and you were offered far cheaper car insurance (and far less likelihood of your kid killing himself and four friends on prom night) for your male teen with installation of a speed governor, would you take it? I bet 100% yes.
If you were offered cheaper car insurance on the condition that you had a speed limiter installed that automatically prevents you from going any faster in a specific speed-limited zone, would drivers take it? Probably not.
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@BlueCatArtist56
@lingerie_addict
@invitinghistory
Yes, it’s not the same as regifting a bowl bought at Homegoods
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A tire falls off a plane and it’s national news; this sort of horrific injury happens because of automobiles daily on US roads, and it’s just “these things happen.”
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I just called Mass State Police to complain about people parking in the bike lanes on Fellsway West, and the trooper called the road a highway.
I told him no, it's actually a DCR Parkway. And he said, well, we call it a highway- and there we have the root of so many problems.
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“Every pedestrian should wear bright yellow or white reflectors, such as those worn by law-enforcement and construction workers.”
Area man argues that walking down the street should be considered as dangerous as working a hazardous job.
Why does
@BostonGlobe
print this dreck?
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@MADDOnline
So it’s not ok to drive drunk, but it is ok to drive a vehicle that has a very large front blind spot and is 50-80% more likely to kill a pedestrian on impact?
I don’t understand what is happening here, at all.
Does your life not matter unless the person who kills you is drunk?
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My son just turned 15, and the juxtaposition of society’s eagerness for him to get a license to operate a motor vehicle, and the fact that 20% of teens deaths are a result of motor vehicles, is increasingly making me crazy.
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Giant pickup truck: $80,000
Some bungees and cords for your bike: $20
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@afond
Which if they hadn’t spent decades using traffic enforcement as pretext stops…..
Anyway I am all for traffic calming, speed governors and traffic cameras for that reason.
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Yesterday I watched a man actively typing into his phone while zooming his car around a corner actually marked with a sign that says “Dangerous Intersection.”
Eyes up, phones down! Pedestrian safety starts with attention. Stay alert and avoid distractions while walking. Your safety is in your hands! 📵
#PedestrianSafety
#Crosswalk
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If they doubled the frequency I bet ridership would triple
NEW from the
@MBTA
: Commuter Rail ridership levels have reached a new post-pandemic peak at 90% of the levels it saw before Covid
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@kate_the_purple
The top source of microplastics in our waterways is tire dust from cars. Car centrism, car bloat, heavy EVs all getting worse, not better.
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@meredithnudo
@H0NEYRIVER
The crazy thing is I have had to pull that movie out of a stack of kids’ cartoon movies, once at a used sale and once at a library, and tell the person there to please make sure the movie was labeled “NOT FOR KIDS”
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The endless blaming of car traffic on bike lanes instead of ….cars….is something, really.
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My e-cargo bike feels really big until it’s next to what is now being sold as a standard family vehicle.
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@CagninaPaul
@NaqiyNY
Phew, sounds like basic life tasks are challenging for you. But don’t be scared to ask for help.
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@Tefrin
@RobertDowneyJr
I don’t know a cyclist that isn’t 💯% for a better transit system. Once you lose the car you need frequent, reliable, accessible buses/trains.
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Why on earth is
@NBC10Boston
making it sound like an idiot crazy cyclist flew into a school bus?
A DRIVER opened their door into a cyclist, causing them to crash into a bus.
This is terrible, victim-blaming reporting.
Shame on you.
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@StephInTheLaw
@mhdksafa
The stack of paper required to “prove” you are “poor enough” to get free lunch is like 14 pages long.
We can pay someone to process all that data, or just buy good food for kids while they are at school.
This country so often chooses to waste money on gatekeeping.
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@DanielStrTowns
Our local page now filled w posts like “hey all! Where’s the best place to go trick r treating?” And I always chime in “where you live, so you can meet your neighbors”
It’s a scourge
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The every-two-hour schedule on the
@mbta
commuter rail makes it impossible to plan any outing in the city from the suburbs without driving (for most people) - it should be every 45 min, or better, every 25.
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@BostonTVPhotog
@universalhub
@MayorWu
@BosTrafficBlows
@BostonBTD
Also the city has added 60,000 cars a year for years, which might also have a slight effect on traffic, since cars hate geometry.
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@MikeSington
Hope he also uses that clout to advocate for common sense gun legislation in a state with almost none.
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I'm just done with arrogant, misogynistic, power-hungry men running stuff like bulldozers in general. The "great men" narrative of history needs to go, and so does the idea that government is run by one "great man." Let's make systems that work, run by teams of great people.
Donald Trump is a far more dangerous and destructive presence in the body politic than Andrew Cuomo. But when it comes to scandals, the two men share the same playbook of lies, cover-ups, and grotesque self-justification.
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Hard to believe, but cities put up signage like this with a straight face:
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Things I would do instead of on-street EV charging ports:
Bike racks
Bus shelters
Bus lanes
Pedestrianized streets (Davis Sq)
Daylighting
Zipcars
Charging correctly priced on-street residential parking
@jake4somerville
@JudyForWard7
I think after a hundred years of car-centric planning, we should think REALLY hard about whether we want to cement on-street parking into place for decades with expensive EV charging ports (that will mostly be used by people making >$200K/yr)
#modeshift
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Kid was at a thing, so I went for a walk.
I never lived in this area of Boston, so I never knew the Mattapan extension of the Red Line was this adorable e-trolley.
@MBTA
should dig in and restore these to a shiny retro look.
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Why are our cars even designed to reach speeds above the posted limit?
Why are our streets designed to even accommodate speeds above the posted limit?
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0.6 miles of bike path just broke ground in my city after….eight years of advocacy and public process
imagine if BRT or bike lanes could be retrofitted at this pace. we might actually meet our climate goals.
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@NRO
It's a Planned Parenthood; that's not an "abortion clinic," it's a women's health center. Women go there for all kinds of reasons, including the very real one that we don't have universal and/or affordable health care- and yet women often need a doctor. Educate yourselves.
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Last fall, an older disabled woman was killed a mile from my house. She also didn’t drive. She’d pushed a beg button and was waiting to cross the street. An SUV driver killed her by driving right onto the sidewalk and over her at high speeds. And her death hasn’t changed a thing
The death of the family at West Portal is affecting me greatly and I am examining that.
Part of it is because the stop is near my home, and one I use often. But more insidious is that this family made a choice to live their life without a car and they were killed because of it
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@Lakshmi_RKG
@EpiEllie
I vividly remember watching my 5 week old baby struggling to breathe for days and in the hospital, having a coughing fit that lasted 10 minutes while she turned dark purple.
She recovered but my heart is with all the parents doing this with Covid right now. It’s awful.
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While “the Idaho stop” is a great term, here in Massachusetts I think we need to mobilize & advocate to legalize what will be locally known as “The Lobster Roll.” 🦞 🚲 🛑
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Do the police ask “why not?” after a driver says “I didn’t see them” (this person I just killed with my car) or is that really a good enough reason for all of us?
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Personally, waking up to the smell of baking each morning would work for me.
"The owners of the Greenhills Bakery in Dorchester today won approval to raze their current store to replace it with a larger bakery topped with three additional floors with nine condos."
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If we charged market value for parking, about 25% of people would get rid of their cars immediately. Imagine how many bus and bike lanes you could build then.
If I could give any candidate for NYC city council or state representative advice on transportation issues, I’d tell them they need to be prepared to tell constituents: “fuck your free parking.”
Point blank, end of discussion.
Grow a backbone. This is the only line you need.
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@DefendTheSheep
Horrible. For a cheerier story my former drummer used to play for $ in a mega church band and pastor said “we are getting complaints that you aren’t closing eyes & bowing head during prayer.”
Drummer “……How do they know???”
Pastor: “…”
Worry about yourselves, o “Christians”
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