New Mass Ave bridge road diet and bike lane.

I’m sort of bothered by the fact that if you’re otherwise heating your house you can’t really consider any normally wasteful use of electricity within your living space to actually be wasteful.

12/6 MWRA covid data, moving average now surpasses all-time peak

Hmm looks a little too smooth and easy to bike on. They need some American planner to come in and stencil a bunch of bumpy thermoplastic markings all over it so that cyclists don’t fall asleep at the wheel

Annual reminder that salting is not a substitute for shoveling 10” of snow

Anyone got eyes on the Boston Public Garden pond? ⛸

It’s tough to focus on work when I can hear cars going 35-40 mph down my street every ten seconds

There was an incredibly beautiful assembly of ice broken by the wind on the shore of Jamaica Pond today

Now *this* is how you replace an urban freeway. Most US cities don't need the giant, poorly designed "open spaces" these things usually turn into, they need nice new infill.

This is fantastic

Time to drop some lanes

Disciplining the land market through exactions on the ~1% of parcels that undergo development each year while leaving the land value gains on the other 99% of parcels untouched.

It's #FreeMapMonday! Re-tweet and follow us for a chance to win the map of Crater Lake National Park! #USGSStore (U.S. residents only)

Google Maps already shows the GLX to Union Square

This is what a technological revolution looks like: Boston has 32M sqft of life sciences space. 62M sqft is proposed or under construction. That's a tripling. Unless we build homes for everyone, we will turbocharge the housing crisis and benefit only landlords.

Who wants a #Boston by-right zoning story? You do? OK, here goes...🧵 There was a vacant lot and two smallish houses on Lamartine Street, not far from Who’s on Furth? and Molly Goodman 🏘️. A developer bought the three lots, and found a way to make 12 units by right.

I fear the Southwest Corridor bike path may be overall bumpier than it was before the repairs. Maybe the worst 25% of rock-your-world bumps have been improved, but the remainder are the same or worse.

MassDCR Don't waste your money with these patches on the Southwest Corridor MassDCR, they are as bumpy as the old paved you're replacing.