Kids in the neighborhood bonding with my kid - good!
Me getting like 30 minutes of personal time per day - something else!
Anyway, will be interesting to see if DC's urbanists hold together as a 'fewer cars' coalition, or if the bus-lane boosters make like David Zipper and just say, "we got the important parts, let MMB and her benefactors have their 'better motorist experience,' LFG"
Confirming my priors re commercial real estate:
“We are at less than 50% return to work today — most would suggest K St NW already seems at capacity approaching gridlock. It currently carries approximately 20K cars per day,” said Bill Miller, principal of Miller Walker Retail Real Estate. “Downtown DC currently has the 5th-worst traffic in North America. Some would suggest that we should consider opening lanes, not closing any more of them to encourage return to work.”
To save the #climate, Massachusetts needs to drive less. But the T's new 5-year capital investment plan – its first under Gov. Healey's administration – continues to postpone the transformational projects that will be necessary to electrify transit vehicles and lure more riders out of their cars.
Oh hey -- the #CambridgeMA Spring Community Bike Ride is Saturday, May 20, 9AM. https://www.cambridgema.gov/CityCalendar/view.aspx?guid=76ef94e5e88343aa8583dc895227ee34
Here in Camberville, telling someone to *follow signs for the (i dunno) Matt Damonway* would be easier than saying, *take Mass Ave to Porter, take the dutch left onto Somerville Ave, then a right on Beacon St and follow that through Inman Sq where it turns into Hampshire St for reasons*
I hope that my wife is looking down from somewhere, and hearing me tell her, “I told you so.”
Wow, Cambridge Matignon Catholic HS shutting down next month. https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/05/03/languishing-finances-and-dwindling-enrollment-to-close-the-cambridge-matignon-school-in-june/?fbclid=IwAR1HDGjjZotPobE8IkruJ830k4Ea1h1V9aibG1zjxIOTeQ3i35Y5C2b4MEo&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Big Brother was watching you, protecting you from biological agents, but then he got distracted, and forgot about his surveillance equipment for a decade until it rusted out and fell on an #MBTA passenger on Monday:
Imagine if, instead of BS curbside charging, the EV-car revolution in cities relied on battery-swapping operations (and city-appropo vehicles) https://insideevs.com/news/665282/fisker-ocean-battery-swap-compatible-2024/
Bikes and stuff. Widow, dad, taking it bird-by-bird.
So many things are improved by 🦪,🚲, & 🪕.
Just me, very much not my employer. Opting in to be searchable via #tootfinder. #fedi22