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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 06/08/2026
Should not be controversial www.bostonherald.com/2026/08/05/b...
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Boston city councilor wants to fine cars who block bike lanes, declares pedestrians ‘king’ of Hub
A Boston city councilor is calling for the city to fine drivers who create a “dangerous environment” by blocking bike lanes, and ensure that pedestrians “are king” in Boston.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 17/07/2026
A primary responsibility of government is to keep people safe (but only if they're in a speeding car). www.npr.org/2026/07/16/n...
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Bike lanes and speed cameras disappear from the DOT's list of proven safety measures
The Federal Highway Administration quietly stripped bike lanes and other safety recommendations from a key list of best practices. Critics say those measures are proven to cut crashes and save lives.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 15/07/2026
"Join the Massachusetts Vision Zero Coalition for a vigil honoring the life of Louisa Gag and calling for immediate, urgent action to create safer streets for all." Thursday, July 16, 5:30, City Hall Plaza. Multiple bike convoys meeting up and riding in. www.visionzerocoalition.org/louisa_gag
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 15/07/2026
benjaminsiegel.github.io/enough-is-en...
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH — An open letter to Mayor Wu on street safety
An open letter calling for safer Boston streets.
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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If other news was reported like climate change:
A picture of a couple driving and laughing with the text "road fatalities highest in ten years"
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 15/07/2026
Letters to the editor of Boston Globe on the death of Louisa Gag
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 25/06/2026
We're like children who think that if we close our eyes the monster won't see us. "I’m sorry to tell you that this silence is not because the climate crisis has been solved." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sil...
currentaffairs.org
The Silence on Climate Change Is Totally Unacceptable
The science hasn’t changed. The urgency only increases. The public wants action. So why are politicians sticking their heads in the sand?
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 23/06/2026
You were not imagining this. road.cc/news/suv-dri...
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SUV drivers don’t care about danger posed to cyclists and pedestrians, new study finds
Motorists who are warned about the dangers posed by SUVs to cyclists and pedestrians on the road are very unlikely to be deterred from buying one, according to a new study.The study, conducted by rese...
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 21/07/2025
Didn't want to click this one because of the headline but glad I did! electrek.co/2025/07/20/i...
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If you think electric bikes are bad, there’s a much bigger menace hitting our roads
Electric bikes are a menace. They go almost as fast as a car (if the car is parking), they’re whisper...
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 20/05/2025
The vision we want to see realized for Camberville! bostoncyclistsunion.org/introducing-...
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Not The Subway, Not The Highway—Introducing The Landway! - Boston Cyclists Union
“Landway”—the network of off-street paths and separated micromobility lanes people of all ages and abilities can use, especially if they feel unsafe sharing street space with cars and trucks.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 20/05/2025
Sign this petition to show your support for this crucial infrastructure! "This petition urges action to complete both phases of the Belmont Community Path, one of few remaining gaps for the Mass Central Rail Trail (MCRT) in the Boston Region." www.gopetition.com/petitions/ac...
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Accelerate Belmont Community Path Phase 1 construction and Phase 2 design
We, the signatories of this petition, endorse construction of the Belmont Community Path and urge…
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
“Every $1300 New York invested in new bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 added year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents.” Among many other benefits, bike-lanes are a really smart public health investment. #CityMakingMath www.reuters.com/article/busi...
People riding in a painted, slightly separated bike-lane
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 29/04/2025
Once again, @massdcr.bsky.social proposes to prioritize cars over conservation and recreation. Read about this plan and write to the DCR to let them know why this is misguided. actionnetwork.org/letters/say-...
actionnetwork.org
Say NO to DCR’s 6-lane road through Brighton parkland
DCR is planning to rebuild the terrifying Soldiers Field Road rotary in Brighton near the Charles River, IHOP, Daly Field, Community Rowing and Watertown / North Beacon Street Bridge. Unfortunately...
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 18/04/2025
Massachusetts launches income based e-bike voucher program. ma-ebikes.masscec.com
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Massachusetts e-bike voucher program applicants
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David Edmondson @thegreatermarin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is such an important study that I sent it on to my city's Engineering team, who are already all-in on bikes and Vision Zero. Sharrows are ONLY good when they signify a truly shared street, where bikes and cars go at roughly the same speed. CROW and NACTO have good examples of both.
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Steve Singer @stevenrsinger.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Another great #TeslaTakedown right now in Boston. Best chant so far: “We don’t want your Nazi cars, take a one-way trip to Mars!”
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TESLA TAKEDOWN @tesla-takedown.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
March 29, 2025, we are calling for a GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION to stop Musk! Join us! Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it. We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup. #TeslaTakedown tesla-takedown.com
#TeslaTakedown
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 24/03/2025
People love it and want more. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 21/03/2025
"With so much debate over the impacts of congestion pricing, let’s take a look at the hard data and see exactly what’s happening:" bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion...
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Congestion Pricing is a Policy Miracle
Which is exactly why Trump wants to get rid of it
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hamza @hamza.ai · 19/03/2025
Need to rebrand bike lanes as mobility lanes. Especially in areas like Charles street in beacon hill where locals and tourists are fighting for foot space amongst strollers on the bumpy brick sidewalks.
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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 19/03/2025
What you can’t see are the three children riding bikes to my right side. What you can feel is this drivers impatience with having to drive responsibly. Do drivers not realize that this behavior puts undue stress on those outside of vehicles? Give the kids a break, let ‘em ride their bikes.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 19/03/2025
A participant’s account of the Boylston bus lane preservation protest: carfreeboston.org/the-copley-s...
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A Copley Square Field Report from Car-Free Boston
A participant’s account of the Boylston bus lane preservation protest. by Harmony Boyd I take public transit to protest, as I do everywhere. First a bus over the Tobin, then a quick jaunt on the Or...
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 17/03/2025
Protest TOMORROW, 3/18, 6PM, Copley Square Back Bay millionaires want to remove the Boylston St. Bus lane, negatively impacting 20,000 bus riders. Demolition is scheduled to begin Tues at 7pm. Be there to stop it.
Back Bay millionaires want to remove the Boylston Street bus lane, and Mayor Wu is letting that happen. Demolition begins Tuesday at 7pm, and 20,000 daily bus riders will suffer. We're here to stop that. You deserve to get to work safely. Don't let the city tear apart critical infrastructure. Bring your bikes, bring your signs, bring yourself and a friend. Boston will not be bought.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 17/03/2025
Protest TOMORROW, 3/18, 6PM, Copley Square Back Bay millionaires want to remove the Boylston St. Bus lane, negatively impacting 20,000 bus riders. Demolition is scheduled to begin Tues at 7pm. Be there to stop it.
Back Bay millionaires want to remove the Boylston Street bus lane, and Mayor Wu is letting that happen. Demolition begins Tuesday at 7pm, and 20,000 daily bus riders will suffer. We're here to stop that. You deserve to get to work safely. Don't let the city tear apart critical infrastructure. Bring your bikes, bring your signs, bring yourself and a friend. Boston will not be bought.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 12/03/2025
A few recent articles in prominent Boston publications needed a proper response. The anti-bike backlash is in full swing and we're not having it. carfreeboston.org/rebutting-bo...
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Rebutting Boston’s Carhead Journalists
Boston is uniquely unsuitable for automobiles. Our narrow streets are not meant for car traffic, let alone the bigger autos of our time. Cycling infrastructure makes the road safer for all
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The Overhead Wire @theoverheadwire.com · 11/03/2025
Michigan man ditches car to save enough money to buy a house - bit.ly/4kDFNNX
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Michigan Man Ditches His Car To Buy His First Home—Here's How
A Michigan man gave up his car, took public transit, and saved enough for a home. Can cutting car costs make homeownership possible?
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ᴀɴᴅʀᴇw вıԍԍs @biggsky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
watching an empire fall in real time as their physical seat of power is turned into a used car lot
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 11/03/2025
Disturbing trend. This is not caused by adding bike lanes in Boston.
Graph showing graph of deaths from cars going sharply up in the past few years and now worse than most developed countries and worse than Russia
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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Went down to Mass Av today to see where @mayorwu.boston.gov is having bike lane infrastructure removed and met Fernando who bike commutes year round and relies on the new Mass Av bike lane in Dot to keep him safe You can see how the flexposts are no longer installed behind him 😳
Biker in winter gear including black jacket and gloves and a black bike helmet and black sunglasses also wearing an orange visibility vest with yellow reflective stripes on a sunny day in the bike lane
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 07/03/2025
Extremely frustrating. We need more barriers, not fewer, to prevent cars from blocking the bike lane. mass.streetsblog.org/2025/03/05/b...
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While Constituents Demand Safer Streets, Boston Is Removing Protective Barriers From New Bikeways - Streetsblog Massachusetts
A City Hall spokesperson declined to say whether the removals are permanent, or only temporary.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 05/03/2025
Tell Boston not to remove the Boylston St. bus lane: transitmatters.org/blog/media-s...
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Media Statement: TransitMatters Calls Upon the City of Boston to Pause Boylston Street Bus Lane Removal — TransitMatters
The City of Boston must make data-informed decisions and value riders’ input when making decisions about public transportation.
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 20/02/2025
In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!
A cartoon with a sign that looks like a classic NYC no parking sign but is modified to say "No King Any Time", above a cartoon showing a cybertruck with a crown on it running over speed bumps and sawhorse barricades labeled Congress, Executive Branch, and Courts. It is stopped in front of bollards with a Congestion Pricing sign above it. In the background on the left is the Washington DC skyline with tire tracks coming out of a building. On the right behind the congestion pricing sign are the Statue of Liberty in front of the Jersey City skyline, an NYC walkup apartment with a bodega, people on bikes and walking, the Manhattan skyline, a subway train, and a bus in a bus only lane, and Pizza Rat.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 20/02/2025
Love to see more cities promoting car-free zones. Public spaces are always better without cars! Do it Seattle. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Seattle mayor proposes car-free Pike Place
Mayor Bruce Harrell tried to walk the line between acknowledging Seattleites’ continued frustration and highlighting where he sees progress on contentious issues.
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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
America's legal expert Dave Colon here with an important update on the effort to kill congestion pricing: Shockingly, people think it's slapdash and flimsy and shouldn't survive the MTA's immediate court challenge nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/19/k...
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'King' Trump Kills Congestion Pricing: Can He Really Do This? (Not Legally!) - Streetsblog New York City
On the one hand: no! On the other hand, well, he certainly thinks he can!
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 20/02/2025
So much ratio
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 17/02/2025
RIP Donald Shoup luskin.ucla.edu/in-memoriam-...
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In Memoriam: Donald Shoup, Renowned UCLA Urban Planner and Parking Reform Pioneer
Legendary Luskin professor, parking “guru” and global figure in transportation and land use planning sparked a dedicated following of parking reform enthusiasts known as “Shoupistas.”…
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 12/02/2025
Boston has seen controversy to the point where mayoral candidates are promising to stop building them.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 05/02/2025
Devastating. Michael Burawoy was an incredible spirit, thinker, anti-capitalist, and author of Manufacturing Consent among many other publications. Rest in peace, comrade. www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
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UC Berkeley professor emeritus Michael Burawoy killed in hit-and-run crash in Oakland
A retired University of California, Berkeley professor was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Oakland on Monday, authorities confirmed.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 03/02/2025
Good thing the roads were salted and plowed or else we wouldn't have anywhere else to walk.
Snow covered sidewalk
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 30/01/2025
NEW: Yesterday, the Department of Transportation issued a memo that says DOT and DOT-supported programs should "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average." www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...
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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I hasten to remind everyone that one of the consequences of increased car dependency is reduction in the quantity and quality of in-person interactions that are necessary to break the spell of fascism. It's going to take a lot of local effort just to keep things *only as bad* as they are now.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
My Co-founder Josh Weinsch took this photo of his little daughter’s bike, which was in their driveway when they evacuated. Their neighborhood was vaporized.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 12/01/2025
The transformation of Paris over the past few years is so inspiring. www.zmescience.com/ecology/gree...
zmescience.com
Why Paris Is Leaving Cars Behind for Bikes
Paris has reinvented itself as a cyclist’s paradise, moving from car-dominated streets to a city crisscrossed by bike lanes.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 11/01/2025
"We’re dependent on driving, not in love with it." Read about a turning point in our history when drivers were given priority over pedestrians because a car dealer wanted to sell more cars. www.planetizen.com/features/132...
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The 100-Year Road to Car Dependency in the US
October 8, 2024, marks the centennial of the publication of what would soon become the Los Angeles Traffic Ordinance — a landmark on the road toward our car-dominated status quo.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
30 years ago. We knew. Even Exxon knew.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 09/01/2025
Seriously need this in Boston too. Who is working on it? www.npr.org/2025/01/05/n...
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Congestion pricing begins in NYC in a high stakes test for the model's U.S. viability
Congestion pricing was introduced on Sunday morning in the center of New York City — despite a late attempt by New Jersey to stop it in court.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 06/01/2025
🚨🚨 Take action now 🚨🚨 Urgent: send an email drawone@mbta.com with comments about the North Station drawbridge redesign. They cut the plan for a bike/pedestrian component and hoped nobody would notice. The project was part of the Big Dig as far back as 1993. Some background 👇
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
🎉We did it. The 3rd circuit has rejected New Jersey’s last minute request, meaning congestion pricing is officially going to begin in exactly 11 hours. 🎉 I wrote an article about how everyone benefits from congestion pricing, feel free to share with any skeptics! open.substack.com/pub/betterci...
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Everybody Wins with Congestion Pricing
Yes, even drivers!
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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 30/12/2024
July: Brown Thomas Arnotts CEO says the City Centre Transport Plan will reduce retail activity and lead to the loss of thousands of jobs August: City Centre Transport Plan is implemented December: Brown Thomas Arnotts CEO reports 5% increase in sales
Brown Thomas Arnotts boss voices ‘deep concerns’ over Dublin city transport plan
Retailer says current proposed plan will see €141 million drop in retail activity because of the measures

‘Electric’: Brown Thomas Arnotts’ boss hails strong Christmas
Donald McDonald says sales up 5% in store and 20% online in December – ahead of expectations
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