We have one car and use an array of our bikes, scooters, a stroller, our feet, buses, the subway, the commuter rail, and our car to do what we want in and around the City.

My tolerance for unsafe streets is less than some cited here but we love our bike anyway. We also put it in storage from December to March, maybe one day that will change but it still transforms family life from April to November.

I LOVE THIS FOR YOU!

I can’t think of any project recently where we DID engage with DCR as a roadway owner but DIDN’T need MassDOT involvement too.

Knowing local match ratios for grant opportunities, eligible fund sources, regulatory requirements, contract bid and award structures all make or break projects.

And nobody ever trains you in any of it. It’s nearly all luck or osmosis that folks learn the ins and outs, and as I found when switching coasts, it’s not always transferable from one place to the next.

BECAUSE YOU CANT MAKE $$ OFF MICRO TRANSIT.

Even without doing ANY of their own market research (they just stripped public data) they went under within 18 mos. You know why?

I am *SO* lucky to have a boss whose answer to this was, “tell me how we can support you whenever you know what you need.”

I’m now caring for my 22 month old on a workday while trying to cobble together full time coverage for our two children.

Our beloved nanny has a family emergency and is no longer available to work with us. We had 36 hours notice of this.

The central subway in SF

This is not unique to Valencia. Madrids system is generally 🤌 but the fare payment system is very old and janky and eats €€€

I know I’m hardly the first to point out the incoherence of this admin but it’s hard to understand how entire programs won’t be wiped out through this benign-sounding “review process”

The way many grants are determined is by using BCAs that *must* quantify benefits to EJ communities and demonstrate significant GHG reductions.