I'm all for getting people out of cars and cars off the roads.

But when a sudden disruption in transportation facilities causes car traffic to "evaporate," we need to look very carefully at whose traffic is evaporating, and at what cost.

On Sunday, a Ford F-150 driver struck and killed a 4-year-old girl in front of her family next to the #Boston Children's Museum in Fort Point:

mass.streetsblog.org/2024/03/2

It’s really cool that you went to Singapore but I just can’t like affirm that you’re a better person because of it, ok Brendan?

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foreign trips feel like adult white people Scout badges sometimes

Stop asking me how my weekend was, colleagues. It was parenting. 100% parenting. Don’t make me strain to put a smiley face on that.

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Had to drive the boy into MGH for an appt, and every time I have to drive downtown I end up wishing for cleansing fire to take me and all those around me. I am so glad I can usually take the T in when I'm in the office.

Imagine if we had implemented the Interstate Highway System alphabetically by state? Too often, active transportation networks are built out in exactly that patchy way.

We just posted a new $44.5M grant opportunity that is different:

1) Just for active transportation,
2) Focused on planning and implementing *networks*,
3) Aims for outcomes beyond safety.

Learn more about ATIIP:
highways.dot.gov/newsroom/bide

Cramming on a deadline at work, remembering what it was like when I was good at this

Today, @Streetsblog published an article about E-Bike Libraries, and I could not be more pleased with how it came out. It did a great job of summarizing the work that we do in the library, and what the experience of running an e-bike lending library is like, why we do it, and how it's done.

usa.streetsblog.org/2024/03/18

I am bicycling to and through Brookline this evening. Where is the legendarily-terrible bike signal I’ve been hearing about for a few years?

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