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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I started riding cargo bikes to work and errands. 50,000 miles later, I feel a little sorry for all the people who didn't do the same.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Highly recommend this thread for insight into how off the rails the @wutrain.bsky.social administration has gone. How are people supposed to reconcile the mayor’s emotional remarks at Louisa’s ceremony with this about face? These decisions have life and death consequences, damnit!

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I forgot how much I love riding in a warm rain, and doing so justified riding a bike with fenders that I otherwise don’t need 99% of the time

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Good listen and Jascha said a lot of the right things, per usual, but not much that was particularly revelatory outside of the Cashman and Mainzer-Cohen stuff. I would’ve liked to hear more detail about who in the administration was applying the pressure to slow down and some dirt on Brohel & Gove

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’d love a gift link if you’ve got one!

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Avant / Après Rue Montera dans le 12ème arrondissement de Paris. La place de stationnement handicapé a été conservée, les autres ont été remplacé par des arbres tout juste plantés en début d'année, et qui démarre donc leur vie dans la rue par des canicules à répétition.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s the Dutch term for two people on one bike. Most often executed by the rear passenger riding sideways on the rear rack, but also on the top tube, handlebars or wherever is practical. These pics from @dutchcycling.nl capture the phenomenon well.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I haven’t used it yet & don’t know that it’s been around long enough for me to have a well-formed opinion on the whole system, but a nice aspect of the Veo scooters that I’m seeing around is that the seat is long enough for (what appears to be) comfortable and safe dinking. Lots of kids using them

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is the type of project I expected to see implemented everywhere when @wutrain.bsky.social was elected. This looks like a wonderful transformation. Nice one @jfh01.bsky.social!

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M. Kelly @emkelly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Yes. Excellent (chilling, enraging) thread here: bsky.app/profile/sund...

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The first conversation I ever had with City Councilor @wutrain.bsky.social was about biking in Boston. We were both waiting to pick up takeout sushi, and she had recently tried biking to work at City Hall. We shared how exposed you feel when a truck barrels by with only a line of paint between. 1x

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Right. The about face despite a historical ass-whooping is difficult to process. Setting herself up for Warren’s or Markey’s seat is the best I can come up with, but even then I’m unclear how her anti-streets stance helps in that regard.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Maybe I’m an old skeptical curmudgeon with just enough distance from this tragedy, but that reads like something I’ve heard 100 times before, with specifics relevant to this situation.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I mean, I had a meeting with Chris and Michelle like 10 years ago, and based on what I saw then and in the time afterwards I stand by what I said. He’s a smart guy who knows what needs to happen, but he isn’t speaking truth to power anytime soon.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Of course, as would I. It’s such an odd position to be in to question this mayor’s ability to follow through, but I’ve become so disillusioned over the past year.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Chris Osgood, that’s who’s going to fix this mess? Seriously? He’s a political creature who will bend to the political whim of the day. Maybe I’ve been gone too long to understand the current landscape, but I have trouble accepting this as the administration’s best response.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I wish I could have been there with you all. I can’t imagine how tough today was.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Politicians act as though death is not an entirely predictable outcome of their acquiescence to NIMBYs and the politicization of street safety improvements, then inevitably someone dies and the best you can do is hope it’s not you or one of your friends. The cycle is fucking tragic and exhausting.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Folks put so much faith in Michelle precisely because she was going to be different, she wasn’t going to be the one who does nothing and then shows up after a death saying things will change.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

How many vigils have we all been to where a politician shows up to tell everyone what they want to hear, only to go back to doing nothing, all the while racking up a spot on the nightly news & some political good will?

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Very surprised to see that Mayor Wu spoke at the vigil. I’m not on the ground, and don’t mean to second guess anyone, but after what she’s put the community through over the past year I would have advocated for excluding her.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s curious that the last time she used the Wutrain account was 3 months ago, when she received pushback on her gaslighting response to a @mass.streetsblog.org article. I’d assume that she realized she’s now lost the room.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hoping folks from across the country (and world) will sign onto this petition to @wutrain.bsky.social. Many people believed her leadership could inspire change not only in Boston, but globally. Add your name before this is delivered to Mayor Wu on Thursday 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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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I’m gutted reading all these tributes to Louisa Gag, and wishing strength to everyone in the Boston advocacy community who knew her.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Beautifully said Matt. So sorry for your loss.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

So utterly devastated to see this. Thinking of you all.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 10/07/2026

The report she co-authored almost a decade ago proposing concrete strategies to avoid entirely preventable killings like this: visionzeronetwork.org/wp-content/u...

visionzeronetwork.org

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Dang, New Haven has built some very high quality separated bike infrastructure, with bioswales and bollards that will mess a vehicle up! I’m assuming this all happened under Doug Hausladen’s watch?

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In New Haven for the @phnetwork.bsky.social conference and while walking off a Frank Pepe pie I came across this monster cycle track under construction on State St. It looks to be 10’ wide. Full-width street reconstruction is going to result in some kick ass infrastructure.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Gorgeous piece of kit. Do you use it in conjunction with A/C or as a replacement?

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If this wasn’t my favorite account and an image like this came across my feed I’d just assume this is AI, because this is pure fantasy nearly everywhere. It’s also the sort of transformation that I envisioned @wutrain.bsky.social would shepherd in Boston.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

In case you’re wondering, I never got the call, which reinforces that Michelle is indeed smart. This is a tough one for me, as I’ve always thought about what if I’d stayed in Boston for this administration? As I look at the sun setting over the Rocky Mountains, I’m reminded: I’m good.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I’m unsure if I ever shared this on the other site, but years ago when Michelle was a City Council President, we met for lunch at some place a stone’s throw from City Hall and after my tirade she said to me “you should be leading BTD”. I relay this not to gloat, but as an indication of where she was

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

To watch her cower behind the same political mush, lacking conviction in her vision to be a change-maker, induces a sense of naivety. I was certain that we shared the same vision, so to realize that is not the case is frankly, devastating.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I’d like to consider Michelle a friend, and as such won’t light her up they way I would have 10 years ago, but I saw in her someone who could fundamentally change Boston in a way that prepared it for the next 400 years. Someone who sees cities as laboratories for improving people’s lives.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

when it comes to establishing a national presence, none were more instrumental than the streets community. So to begin to get up to speed, and learn that this has been over a year in the making, is hard to wrap my brain around. The betrayal the folks feel is real, and I feel it with you.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

With every passing year in Colorado (coming up on 8 years), I follow Boston issues a little bit less. Today I realized how out of touch I am and how long frustration has been brewing there. Lots of folks and communities were involved in @wutrain.bsky.social’s success but 🧵

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Imagine what I would have tweeted to Walsh after he posted something like this. You and I had a meeting with the last administration to address the same frustrations that the same community is expressing right now. You know they see through these non-answers, so who is this for?

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Reading that piece was a gut punch, & the comment at the bottom of the article from a former BTD planner that there was better progress under Walsh was heartbreaking. Remember that this is about so much more than just transportation & ask yourself if the people advising you appreciate that. ❤️

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

No city that truly values public space, and believes that beauty should permeate the public realm would allow this.

A new light pole in an old concrete sidewalk with a hack-job asphalt patch, with a tree bursting out of its too-small tree well in the background. A dockless bike share bike is parked in the middle of the too-narrow sidewalk which is such because of orange jersey barriers and tables from a private establishment encroaching on the public sidewalk. There’s a door-zone bike lane adjacent to cars parked cheaply on the street.
All of this across the street from the primary train station for a major US city.

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Can someone back home explain to me what you think is going on here? What’s the consensus on why there’s been a backtrack from such a promising start? Seeing a dunk contest on one of my favorite people is incredibly depressing, but there’s obviously a lot of frustration.

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Avant / Après la piétonnisation et la végétalisation de la Rue de Gravelle dans le 12ème arrondissement de Paris

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

As a bona fide parking nerd, I had to visit HdM’s 1111 Lincoln Rd today while staying in South Beach. I’ve gotta say, it’s pretty great!

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Denver Streets Partnership @bikewalkbus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

💪 3/11 Day of Action: On March 11, we’re using Denver’s 311 system to demand safe+accessible streets, honoring the 93 lives lost last year, and pushing leaders to meet Vision Zero—Zero deaths and or serious injuries on the road by 2030. Sign up to express interest only, with details coming soon.

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311 (March 11) Day-of-Action Interest Form

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Is that a normal Chicago thing? I’ve never seen anything like that before.

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Before (2023) / After (2026) the pedestrianization and greening of a big part of Place Félix Éboué in Paris’s 12th arrondissement. The difference will be even more striking once the trees have leaves ;)

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out for the #AlexPretti memorial ride in Oakland today. It was a huge turnout, even more than shown here at Lake Merritt, as some people peeled off since the start at Rockridge BART. @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @ebbp.bsky.social

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Ride for Alex Pretti in Denver is absolutely massive. 500 easy. No ICE No KKK No fascist USA

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Jonathan Fertig @rightlegpegged.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The number of rides for Alex Pretti on Saturday is exploding. This is shaping up to be quite the day and if your city isn’t represent yet, get organizing and let the folks below know the details so your ride can get added to the map. bikepacking.com/news/alex-pr...

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