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MA commuter rail riders, do be sure and take their winter survey! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Hello out there from cold and snowy Boston! We're excited to get started on Bluesky and looking forward to a new social media experience on such an exciting platform. LFG!

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

This statistic blew my mind. I had no idea so few people took public transit in the US: Only 3.1% of US adults use public transportation to get to work, according to 2022 data from the Census Bureau, down from 5% in 2019, @kendrawrites.com reports @bloomberg.com:

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

Last-Minute Legislating Puts Camera Enforcement Bills On Governor’s Desk - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/01/02/l... #mapoli

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

Merry Christmas & Happy Hanukkah to all celebrating! May we find the light in each other & never give up on our brightest future ✨

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

@mbta.bsky.social General Manager Phil Eng reports that a full-speed subway system is saving riders 40,000 hours every weekday - mass.streetsblog.org/2024/12/19/e...

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Not quite sure Train Daddy Eng is going to catch on like it did for Andy Byford www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/16/m...

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>>> @massgovernor.bsky.social does not look good at all in the @bostonglobe.com's latest deep dive into Steward Health Care horror show. #mapoli apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/invest...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Flour Bakery is coming to the Boston Common in 2025! @parks.boston.gov announced today that Flour has been selected to manage the Boston Common Concession Pavilion. Congratulations, Flour! 🥯

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

We have always relied on the oil and gas industry to self-report methane emissions. Now we have independent ways to of measuring those emissions and it turns out they were lying about the emissions. By a lot. The blue lines are actual measurements. The pink are industry numbers.

submitted 76 days ago • 43 comments

It’s true, #mapoli pod friends, @thehorserace.bsky.social is now on here too!

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Someday we, too, can be free of 4 buses coming back to back to back to back in Boston

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Today’s very cynical @bostonglobe.com editorial eyeroll at the initial BPS-only pilot phase of our Boston Family Days free museum program overlooks the operational work to launch & sustainably run a program of this scale. Sharing a bit of the reality behind how it works: 🧵

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

Nick Collins is the Kyrsten Sinema of Massachusetts. Just annoying politician who obstructs everything for no reasons.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

My latest in Bloomberg CityLab: Kansas City is a pioneer using microtransit, one of the hottest ideas in public transit. But KCATA chief Frank White told me microtransit’s costs are astronomical, 10x more than a fixed-route bus. He thinks the hype is overblown. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 83 days ago • 14 comments

Roughly 30% of today’s #MBTA NB Red Line trains are bunched. Yikes

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Vietnam's parliament or National Assembly approved a 1,541km long high speed railway line between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City today. Called the North South Express Railway, the project is expected to start construction in 2027 and Vietnam hopes the line will start operating by 2035. In addition...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Thanksgiving.

submitted 90 days ago • 13 comments

Of all the things that didn’t happen, this call between Ed Flynn and a business owner didn’t happen the most.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

If the U.S. could build metros at the same cost as Rennes' metro, the country could construct 239 miles of subway and 418 stations every year for just 50% of its annual spending on new highways and roads.

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

Hi Bluesky! We’re the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. Follow us here for updates about our parks, programming, and ongoing projects 🌳

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t compete with this

submitted 91 days ago • 232 comments

For the first time ever, Boston’s Newbury Street will be pedestrian only in the winter. ❄️ ☃️ Sunday December 1 and 8 ⏰ 10-6

submitted 91 days ago • 4 comments

So many important voices in this @bostonglobe.com on Blue Hill Ave ⬇️ Fun fact: the rezoning we codified in Mattapan for more housing & small biz was the 1st time in a decade that planning had turned into actual zoning in Boston. This also launched our citywide rezoning process, the 1st in 60 years.

submitted 92 days ago • 7 comments

“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.” Leadership. #Paris www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/...

submitted 92 days ago • 18 comments

NO MORE SLOW ZONES ON THE RED LINE: Last October, the median end-to-end trip from Alewife to Braintree took 78 minutes. As of this morning, that trip has been reduced to 51 minutes: mass.streetsblog.org...

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

“We have to think bigger & be bolder when it comes to solutions to our region’s greatest challenges. These changes require all of us to take an open mind to rethinking the last 60 years of unsustainable sprawl & embrace more walkable, infill housing (again!).” commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/walk...

submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments

If you're my friend you don't need a therapist, a personal trainer, or a financial advisor. I will give you an extremely inadequate version of all those services for free

submitted 94 days ago • 28 comments

I know this isn’t the point, but it was absolutely stunning to me that federal headcount has been more or less stagnant during a period over which US population more than doubled

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As Trump prepares to take a sledgehammer to the "administrative state," it's worth revisiting this @adamconover.net celebration of the non-partisan government workers who make life better and safer for us in so many ways that most of us take for granted. www.netflix.com/title/81037116

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

It's worth pointing out that even if the City of Yes was paired with realistic MTA service expansion, people would still be up in arms because they can only conceive of a world in which they drive everywhere.

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North Beacon street bike lane getting cleaned 🧹🧼🧽

submitted 100 days ago • 3 comments

Well this wasn't forecast: Dr. Oz for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

A good reminder when people think of free transit fares - they are usually implemented in places with poor transit, because it’s seen as an “easy” way to make transit look more attractive. The issue is most people don’t care about saving a couple dollars to ride a crappy service!

submitted 99 days ago • 22 comments

HERE IT IS! My 1st Urbanism & City-Building Starter Pack. I’ll keep adding to it as more city champions arrive here on Bluesky & I discover more of you. Please share this far & wide to support and grow our urbanism community here. Our cities need all the help they can get! go.bsky.app/G7isZfk

submitted 107 days ago • 141 comments

Seeing all my old friends on here again

submitted 102 days ago • 93 comments

So, how do I find all the urbanists on here? How do I get my 42,000 Twitter followers to find me here? I will post eventually. Meanwhile, I welcome the new crowd!

submitted 102 days ago • 15 comments

NEED SOME GOOD NEWS? The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels. Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.

submitted 103 days ago • 113 comments