Reposted by DemonHuskyBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 06/10/2026cars worsen cities, and they also worsen people. 3908
Reposted by DemonHuskyBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 05/10/2026Oh, and Boston? The rest of the region would love it if you stopped getting finite 8-figure Federal grants that could have funded other sustainable transpo priorities in the region, and then repeatedly shitting the bed. 0152
Reposted by DemonHuskySarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m doing a mini AMA rn on Reddit regarding the recent meeting with Mayor Wu regarding the cycling network in Allston-Brighton. Dunno how many folks see or need it, but I thought some might. 111
Reposted by DemonHuskyStreetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org · 02/10/2026How to Use the ‘Emergency Streets’ Strategy to Move From ‘Crash Response’ to System Changebuff.lyHow to Use the 'Emergency Streets' Strategy to Move From 'Crash Response' to System Change — Streetsblog USAA deeper look at the inner workings of the 'Emergency Streets' process, and how it could lead to lasting change. 0108
Reposted by DemonHuskyBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 01/10/2026Those four hateful words — “I’m starting a newsletter.” More of the same transpo stuff in general — and active transportation planning, research, and Federal policy in particular — that I post about here. Subscribe: pedantic.bike 3304
Reposted by DemonHuskyCambridge Bicycle Safety @cambbikesafety.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Riders 8 to 80ish braved the drizzle to commemorate the completion of the Broadway bike lanes. Schools, day cares, museums, and multiple neighborhoods now benefit from better pedestrian crossings, signage, and protected micromobility travel. Thank you to the many who spoke up over the years. 0106
Reposted by DemonHuskyAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 20/09/2026Pretty much every country outside of the United States got the memo that to avoid being held hostage by a dictator, they gotta wean themselves off of fossil fuels. And no, I don't think Democrats got the memo either, given how many have sandbagged the most basic electrified public transit projects 317729
Reposted by DemonHuskyBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 18/09/2026Note the difference in how unpermitted striping is covered by Boston-area media when it’s Italian-colored centerlines rather than the spot where a City planner died while bicycling www.wcvb.com/article/nona...wcvb.comBeloved Italian flag line returns to center of Newton streetNewton will repaint a white center line flanked by green and red on Adams Street in Nonantum, restoring the Italian flag design after last summer's controversy. 1307
Reposted by DemonHuskyBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 18/09/2026What WON’T the modifications do? Dissuaded a driver from running a red light and hitting things, which we all keep hearing is what happened to the scooter rider. 1192
Reposted by DemonHuskyBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 18/09/2026There was already a bike lane there. There were no bike lane extension markings through the intersection. The tape put them in, and put in offsets. Why would you offset bicyclists from cars through an intersection? 1312
Reposted by DemonHuskyBoston Cyclists Union: BCU.bike/act @bikeboston.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s been two months since we lost Louisa Gag to traffic violence. Is Tremont St any safer today? The answer is evidently not. Residents have taken it upon themselves to improve Tremont St. Now, City Council is noticing. bostoncyclistsunion.org/two-months-a...bostoncyclistsunion.orgTwo months after we lost Louisa, the intersection of Tremont and Parker St remains dangerous - Boston Cyclists UnionWhere things stand on Tremont St two months after we lost Louisa Gag, and an "emergency" hearing order in City Council. 065
Reposted by DemonHuskyJesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 17/09/2026The "AI Pause" should be for an A/B test. Let's try putting the same amount of money into people for 5 years and compare the results. 1144
Reposted by DemonHuskyChristopher Schmidt @crschmidt.net · 15/09/2026Funniest moment of the evening as a bike person: rolling up with Jess in the Urban Arrow to the Huntington Theater, and having someone else roll up with his wife in the back of his Tern GSD alongside us to go to the same show. Adults as e-bike passengers: it's the way to travel in Downtown Boston! 1142
Reposted by DemonHuskyBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 10/09/2026Riding contraflow illegally is extremely common on this route. The city could post signs legalizing it and markings reinforcing it — thus giving motorists a heads-up — as they have on a few other streets. @votejivan.bsky.social even got a policy order passed, directing a study. Nothing yet. 2194
Reposted by DemonHuskyStreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 09/09/2026Of particular note for this story: in 2024, @MassDOT widened the roadway near the scene of this homicide. In the 2 years since that project's completion, the number of crashes on Damon Road was nearly double what it was in the two years before the widening project: 45223
Reposted by DemonHuskyLet’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 09/09/2026Note the implication in the poster that anyone who uses the bus and wants it to go faster is weakening the community. There's a very influential segment of car drivers who have a hard time believing that non-drivers are human. 021
Reposted by DemonHuskyThe Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Michelle Wu with tears in her eyes at Louisa Gag's memorial promised to do better and first her administration targeted and eliminated a proposed bike lane in East Boston Now new plans break up a proposed continuous bike lane part of the Blue Hill Av redesign A broken network isn't a safe network 0136
Reposted by DemonHuskyBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 08/09/2026seems like if you're gonna do a neighborhood plan, and then plow ahead with projects that don't include as a project goal implementing the plan, then you should either reconsider the project or scrap the plan 141
Reposted by DemonHuskyBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 08/09/2026Given these project goals, and that it's funded by a Federal discretionary grant (SS4A), seems like it's a looooongshot that they're implementing planned PBLs here. 181
Reposted by DemonHuskyMatthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Question for bike folks: Seeking recommendations for a small bike rack for residential use? We thought we had found one (linked). Price looked promising, but when we went to checkout, the shipping quote was $450 — nearly as much as the rack itself!!! YIKES!!! www.madrax.com/u-rack-on-ra...madrax.comU' Racks on RailsThis is a simple yet ideal commercial bike rack where appearance, security, and value are the most important traits. 252
Reposted by DemonHuskyWelcomeToDot @welcometodot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Getting killed on the road by a sleep-deprived stranger in the middle of a personal crisis who absolutely has to be somewhere right now? That’s the price we’ve apparently decided to pay for freedom. 154
Reposted by DemonHuskyWelcomeToDot @welcometodot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026People these days spend a lot of time worrying about the robot apocalypse. If Boston exists in 100 years, I suspect people will wonder why we didn’t worry more about the other machines we considered perfectly normal. 264
Reposted by DemonHuskyDemonHusky @demonhusky.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026Go vote! #IBikeIVote #MAPoli #BosPoli 102
Reposted by DemonHuskyScott @scottistvan.com · 01/09/2026Hey Massholes - Go vote! We have a lot of contested primary races today; many will be decided by hundreds if not dozens of votes. 022
Reposted by DemonHuskyLet’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 31/08/2026This was supposed to have 125 subsidized affordable units. This is why zoning approval needs to be by-right, without review. You sometimes get worse outcomes, yes, but if you require review NIMBYs are far more likely to win, so overall the outcomes are better. 173
Reposted by DemonHuskyBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 28/08/2026Guys, this is for real. Senate GOP and the administration want to pass a law that outlaws bikelanes on the 160K mile National Highway System. Imagine if adding protected bikelanes to many arterials would suddenly be against the law. Let’s not allow this. 7276124
Reposted by DemonHuskyBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 28/08/2026Here's the NHS map for Camberville. Finishing Mass Ave "Partial Construction," Somerville Ave, Broadway in Arlington... All these planned PBLs get Federally outlawed. 4256
Reposted by DemonHuskyBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 25/08/2026Bicycling was dragged into intersectionality, and it's time to show that those lessons stuck. There's bright red string connecting a Florida man terrorizing people on bikes, and every other man terrorizing every other person that doesn't conform to the fascist agenda. 1202
DemonHusky @demonhusky.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026Good news, I checked out Art's Creamery and can say that there is another worthy ice cream shop within walking distance. You know, having Momma's, Honeycomb, Forge, and Lizzie's wasn't enough... 010
Reposted by DemonHuskyFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This is good bike parking. It has angular tubing, which prevents the quiet use of pipe cutters for theft. The racks are also spaced far enough apart to allow for larger bikes to be parked with room for the rider to maneuver while on foot. Also, this is entrance-adjacent to the building. 1120327
Reposted by DemonHuskyCambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 18/08/2026We all scream for ice cream: A roundup of Cambridge and Somerville’s ice cream options What’s the best scoop near you?... www.cambridgeday.com/2026/08/18/rou…cambridgeday.comWe all scream for ice cream: A roundup of Cambridge and Somerville’s ice cream optionsWhat’s the best scoop near you? 024
DemonHusky @demonhusky.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026Thought from that JFH interview where he suggests he wants to stay around and stay in transit and stay in government: Have him take over as GM of the T with Eng going full time at head of MassDOT 010
Reposted by DemonHuskySpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026In which the casual evil of the Back Bay Association is beyond caricature: 【When we put a bus lane on Boylston Street in the Back Bay, I had the head of the Back Bay Association in my conference room with my staff berating us for taking away that travel lane to make a bus lane. At one point she […]hachyderm.ioOriginal post on hachyderm.io 000
Reposted by DemonHuskyOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I love bike share. What an amazing idea. You take a bike wherever and whenever you want. And leave it wherever you want. It’s not the fastest or most fitted bike to you. But it’s incredible flexibility. Bike to transit and not worry about theft. Go for a run and bike back. See rain, take a bike. 1634426
Reposted by DemonHuskyJohn Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Zero occupancy vehicles (ZOV), aka empty robots, are being deployed by the hundreds per city/metro only until they can deploy them by the millions. Cities will need ZOV restrictions/caps else ZOV will dominate downtowns. Been ~obvious since Google got serious ~2014. And when they all brick at once. 163
Reposted by DemonHuskyChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The the car behind her started honking, and here's the southie moment: That driver hauls herself out of the car window up to her waist, pivots 180 degrees and yells "SHUT THE FUCK UP ASSHOLE, YEAH YOU, WE WAIT, SHUT UP." Then she turned and gave me the best smile in the whole world. 11/7 29013
Reposted by DemonHuskyJohn Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 28/07/2026More 'why haven't we been doing this for the past 50 years' recommendations. Detecting cyclists/pedestrians/VRUs in blind spots was among the top rationales for gifting 5 GHz of public bandwidth to the auto industry for radar >decade ago, which has mostly used it to protect and comfort car drivers. 02212
Reposted by DemonHuskyThe Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This is a very important person who isn't biking as a photo op: she bought an electric bike because she has incorporated it into her life. Seeing politicians like AOC & @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social use bikes to normally get around influences their politics to support biking and street safety as ways 1101
Reposted by DemonHuskyAdam @adampdotcom.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Been disappointed by politicians my entire life, but none as devastating as @wutrain.bsky.social turning her back on us. Emphasis on the us. Michelle Wu was different, a rare standout who didn't just talk, but walked the walk, biked the bike and T'd the T. She understood us because she was us. 131
Reposted by DemonHuskyWelcomeToDot @welcometodot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026No expansion of a safe bike lane network in the city is the tell she is treating this as an incident and not an indictment of her entire policy. 0204
Reposted by DemonHuskyThe Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 24/07/2026And ultimately we need better communication. We've been lied to for 2 years. I don't know if she can ever regain my trust. I know who and what Michelle Wu is and she has destroyed hard earned trust She's still not using trustworthy language. Street safety defines Wu and she's caused this problemstatic.klipy.comTaylor Swift Anti HeroALT: Taylor Swift Anti Hero 051
Reposted by DemonHuskyThe Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This is a bad plan, which is to say it is not a plan at all. It's still full of double talk and word salad that means nothing She's saying a lot of what she WON'T do: no new bike corridors, ignoring bus lane projects like Blue Hill And weird stuff around community involvement She's scaling back 33310
Reposted by DemonHuskyThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 24/07/2026A person died. Lots of people, in fact. But don't go to fast on fixing streets, Mayor Wu, lest people not "understand the trade-offs." 111610
Reposted by DemonHuskyChristopher Schmidt @crschmidt.net · 24/07/2026The big thing is that this letter is just reasserting the status quo. The status quo is what we’ve been fighting for the past year (or more). Like, even if I believed Wu, this letter doesn’t even describe a planned change in approach, just reasserts that what they’ve been doing is good. 1122
Reposted by DemonHuskyStreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 24/07/2026Not even the @boston.gov City Council President can get her calls returned from Mayor Wu's streets cabinet. I guess it's nice to know it's not just us? Story here: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/24/b... 03812
Reposted by DemonHuskyThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A theme here is that if a person inside city government intervenes on behalf of a restaurant losing parking spots or a random driver getting a parking ticket, that's seen as constituent services. If another government insider works on behalf of keeping people alive, that's seen as advocacy. 530181
Reposted by DemonHuskyDan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The basic reality of Boston transit is that the city wasn't built for cars, there's no way to build it so that it's convenient to drive anywhere, most people would not want that in the first place, and the inability to confront any of these facts on the part of multiple parties is killing people. 2103
Reposted by DemonHuskyMatthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 23/07/2026"Bikes deliver the freedom that car ads promise" is witty but it's not a joke. And this aggro nonsense from USDOT ought to make the politics crystal clear. Bikes are indeed instruments of freedom. That's exactly why an authoritarian regime is moving against them. 022
Reposted by DemonHuskyStreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 23/07/2026A public records request reveals how @mayorwu.boston.gov's election-year "review" of transportation projects created a duplicate layer of authority inside City Hall that fomented confusion and stalled urgent safety initiatives: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/22/f...mass.streetsblog.orgFailures of Communication and Accountability Plagued Mayor Wu's Election-Year 'Review' of Transportation Department - Streetsblog MassachusettsAn internal "30 day review" of city transportation projects that Mayor Wu requested during her re-election campaign last year was supposed to improve the public's trust in the city's ability to manage... 36815
