darren buck @bikepedantic@transportation.social

We could create an all-new retail square from the operating and defunct auto-oriented parcels alone (and should! Do we need to gas stations, a muffler shop, and a tire shop here, in an EV car future?)

Across the street from the Mobil station sits this vacant garage.

In one of the most overheated real estate markets in the country, Cambridge’s planning and zoning doesn’t create a market condition that allows something to replace nothing. Failure.

The Mobil station at the corner of Mass Ave & Alewife Brook is back open after a big multi-month reconstruction of the pumps and tanks.

It is a massive failure of our planning and zoning that Cambridge’s northwestern gateway will continue as a half-acre gas station for years to come.

More cantabridgian exceptionalism in motor vehicle operation

Stop sign at Columbus and Kimball in N Cambridge (directly across from a kid’s park) must be broken or something. Because surely the exceptional drivers of Cambridge would never drive like this!

Two in the chairs and five of us waiting in Fast Phil’s at 11:45 on a Friday

It’s never a bad day for a #BikeBus

When you hand a carpenter a safety-oversight hammer, anything that moves is a nail. If too many things are moving, your carpentry skills are questioned. (ht @streetsblogmass & @cmilneil ) https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/03/09/systemwide-slow-zone-state-oversight-agency-sets-25-mph-speed-limit-on-subways/

An Urban Arrow Shorty, which is too cute for words, with only 45 miles on the clock, for $4k in Seattle https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/d/seattle-urban-arrow-shorty/7596461407.html

My thread from my old instance on the pitfalls of installing curbside EV charging in cities https://better.boston/@bikepedantic/109710484127731944

This problem of EV charging spots getting “ICE’d up” has no good solution, and will be even worse when our cities start charging up curbside parking

From: @universalhub
https://mastodon.online/@universalhub/109994928911462763