they took a weird line in it feels like. It almost looked like they missed the stadium. Not loud at all either, I wonder if they made flight adjustments after the last one? Glad I got out to see it, even if I froze my butt off. Better view than from inside the stadium

https://imgur.com/0Mz91xZ

Get bent you live in a city. Do you complain about police sirens disturbing law abiding citizens too?

Having people put in requests for specific spots they want chargers is not the right answer. If the city wants people to go green, they should lead by example https://thecityfix.com/blog/how-utility-poles-and-streetlights-can-improve-equitable-access-to-ev-charging-in-u-s-cities/

the fact that non home owning residents have no way to charge electric vehicles makes any attempts at seeming progressive laughable. I get that the city doesnt want people to own cars, but it turns out, there are other cities beyond cambridge that people need to travel to. I mean, even just automatically assuming a green vehicle is single occupancy is an absurd bias. like oh wow, I guess no families or HOV commuters use electric cars.

If you want people to go green, then allow them. Saying "your only option to go grocery shopping is a bike or a gas guzzler" is ridiculous.

thats what I was wondering. If theyre not gonna warn anymore I worry about how much cleaning theyll be able to do!

It's great that they're adding them but, how about residential charging so that people who live in the city have an incentive to get an electric car?

not to be pedantic, but I hate when people say "return cash to homeowners". Like, no they dont. what they do is not raise tax rates, and offer a tax incentive to not rent out your house. Returning money would be like what the Mass did last year when they sent us a check. Not charging me more money for existing is not the same as returning cash

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that said, I just would love to make this happen by any means, and most people assume big line items like this require some type of fiscal trade off. If there is room in the budget for it as is, hooray! (but also, cut taxes some more then)

>A citywide FTTP network would likely require a significant capital contribution to be financially feasible, including a $150 million upfront City contribution, based on relatively conservative assumptions, including that 40 percent of premises subscribe.
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>There are several business models that the City could explore, each impacting Cambridge’s contribution differently depending on the type of partnership and a variety of business factors.

I assumed from this it meant that while it can be added to the budget, the budget has not been accounted for yet

I hope the city can agree to cut the discretionary spending program to help fund this instead! Would be amazing to get municipal broadband. Comcast is awful and so expensive

if you can, go in person. there is no way the mailers are going to show up on time. I paid for mine the start of feb, I called earlier this week and they told me they have not started processing them yet

Yeah I've seen the cars on Brattle as well. Certainly a design issue; during the rest of the year there needs to be a bollard there to keep cars out, but they also could have done some curb work to make it too small for a car to enter.

I'm surprised the bidirectional was considered bad at Huron but acceptable at Concord. I haven't really figured out the right way to head into the square yet

I know at the first snow I saw the garden lanes got blocked by the plow, but I'm sure it was fixed later. It's more just about needing to clear twice as many lanes. i am always surprised to hear the mix of "I commute" and "it's great to see kids on this". But maybe I'm a grouchy old man who doesnt like ducking wrong way bikers or tots heh

iirc the design that had garnered the most public support wasnt the one the was deployed, so I'm not going to hold my breath reaching out to the city. Nor should I need to for the items I mentioned. Like I said, it feels half assed. I didn't realize they were constrained from making physical changes with the project however, so that certainly explains it

So removing all the parking, changing a street from 2 way to 1 way, and installing bollards is considered in scope, but not killing cyclists from cross traffic or looking at cyclist/pedestrian impact isn't in scope? You know that sounds weird right?

Great example of half assed planning on garden: where garden and Shepard meet there's a cross walk. When it was a 2 way street it didn't matter what side the cross walk was on, but now that it's a one way cars trying to turn onto garden are turning directly into the cross walk, meaning bikes/pedestrians crossing will stop traffic on 2 streets instead of just one. Why didn't the city move the crosswalk? It would be a huge improvement for everyone using the roads, and it would even line up the Shepard bike lane with the crossing. Doesn't take a massive study to see this, and even though we paid for one it was missed. Crazy

The lack of cross road signage makes the bike lanes really dangerous. If you know garden, you know to look at both lanes and in which direction, but if you're not from here you're out of luck. Also doing a split bike lane is a huge waste of infrastructure. Not only does it require twice the plowing and twice the bollards, but it also makes it harder for busses to navigate the road and it makes the road just awful to try to navigate in the winter.

As other threads have mentioned, the garden street bike lane mostly services students too, so why they decided to put one of the bike lanes in a spot to encourage students to ride the wrong way is confusing.

I love the brattle bike lanes because it's much less confusing and much easier to use. The only real downside to brattle imo is you need to pull over into a parking spot to try to cross the street. But that's an issue with any bike lane. I'm curious why people think brattle is bad and garden is good?

I'm a fan of well designed bike lanes (looking at your brattle, all lanes should be like you), but if the law required a safety board to review, and it removed the board and then put in a bunch of shit bike lanes (looking at you garden), then how was the lawsuit dismissed? What is the point of the law if we can just ignore it?

I think you're the only person I've met unaware of the negative impact of electric cars. https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteries#:~:text=For%20illustration%2C%20the%20Tesla%20Model,kg%20(16%20metric%20tons).

Renewable clean energy is the goal. But there is a reason why companies continue to try to find other options, such as hydrogen, to use instead

I think if you write to her office for anything, you get subscribed. But you can sign up here https://katherineclark.house.gov/signup

For sure. This is very much the "electric car" problem. Electric cars are terrible for the environment, but electric cars are still a good thing because we need to push for renewable energies. It's more about framing and making sure you know what issue you are addressing. In this case, it's about reducing plastic waste, especially microplastics in our water and plastic in the ocean. While paper bags don't necessarily help the forests, they do reduce microplastics

But what is congress supposed to do about the Philippines? There is no reason we should say "those guys are worse so we don't need to do anything". Microplastics are everywhere, and companies like Amazon generates billions of tons of plastic every year, most of it single use. It's certainly going to help the planet much more to hold Amazon accountable than for you to stop using a plastic straw

Why? They could just go down Linnaean, or walker. Not every street needs to have parking removed for counter traffic bikers, especially when there are viable alternatives. Hell, Harvard could just add a cutout onto the property for bikes from garden if that's really what the issue is. Why should city tax dollars fix Harvard's student issues?

Not historical window specific, but my home has some very unique window shapes and banner glass was able to replace some custom panes that I thought would be impossible to do. If you cant get a historical specialist, or if you get sticker shock, give them a try

good luck. I had a similar issue. The dispute did not work, and they told me "i can submit another dispute if I disagree". When I got the letter in the mail, the "dispute" was that I can sue the city if I pay 300$ for the privilege . Reach out to city council and complain and see if they can help out because it's crazy if you have photo proof that parking will still tell you to pound sand

https://www.reddit.com/r/CambridgeMA/comments/wmqo3d/are_there_any_plans_for_cpd_to_start_enforcing/

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"cpd should do their job" = "cops should be more aggressive, like increasing beatings to improve morale". but yeah, no bias there