darren is Not Going Back @bikepedantic@transportation.social

Primary Mass Ave bus lane enforcement these days appears to be bus drivers laying on their horns with gusto…

…which is pretty poor marketing for more bus lanes.

So many people out on the trail that they couldn’t all make it thru the super-short green trail phase at Mass/Cedar.

When compliance is punished, compliance gets rubbished

By the way, there's certainly real reasons that access by full-sized motor vehicles may be needed. And as in all things, a precise definition of "need" is perhaps badly needed.

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Pic 1, A full sized garbage truck seen from rear occupies entire width of a trail. People stand on the grass verge looking on.

Pic 2, Seen from rear, a van stops alongside a dropoff box of some sort. Someone walking two dogs approaches on the trail the van is stopped on.

Pic 3, Seen from side from within a park, a Cambridge Animal Control and Rescue van drives on a shared-use path.

A selection of moments showing how even in Cambridge, there are no truly car-free spaces. If it fits on it, they will drive on it.

“I do think that so much of the way we grieve is formed by capitalism and Eurocentric structures,” [Kara Jackson] says. Her best friend, Maya, died of cancer in 2016: “I just remember people being like: ‘You gotta get ready for college.’ I was so confused about why time didn’t just stop.”

This quote hit me hard. We're in a profound national-scale depression because of exactly fucking this. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/02/kara-jackson-interview-folk-grief-capitalism-why-does-earth-give-us-people-love

There’s like a 58-way tie for things I like best about camberville, and Bike-In Movie Night is one of those 58

Moving into our upstairs apartment tomorrow, which means everything is going wrong today, and I’m just done

Maybe says a lot about media and America’s view of government in general that this is a shutdown angle that got covered.

That you won’t see fat bears while your government goes dormant feels like a judgment on the many non-fat-bear functions of the executive. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/government-shutdown-affect-fat-bear-week/story?id=103567124

The Globe's new Camberville newsletter is out, discussing the logo choice (turkey with a fluffernutter and a bike helmet) https://mailchi.mp/bostonglobe.com/rip-to-your-green-line-commute?e=e38db34e51

Seeing as my wife died of colon cancer, it's maybe time i should perhaps get a colonoscopy. Lahey Health has availability... in August 2024.

Built in 1935 as an apartment over retail space in my old neighborhood, this guy has been reduced to another sniveling single-family home by zoning and traffic/parking fears. Could/should be a corner store, or coffee shop, or ______, but nah. https://redf.in/vfzcIR

Whenever anyone tells you how well or poorly the N Mass Ave bus lanes are working, please aggressively apply the asterisk that customers of the paint store delay the inbound trip for every bus and car occupant Every Single Morning.