Sky Rose
@skyqrose.bsky.social
Streets, transit, and local politics in Boston/Cambridge/Somverille
I'm on the fediverse: https://better.boston/@sky
I'm on the fediverse: https://better.boston/@sky
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#CambridgeMA cancels contract with surveillance-cam company because it installed two new cameras after city told it to take down all its cameras
www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/10/c...
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City cancels deal for license plate tech - Cambridge Day
Cambridge drops Flock Safety after company acknowledges it installed cameras against the orders of the city council.
www.cambridgeday.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#CambridgeMA cancels contract with surveillance-cam company because it installed two new cameras after city told it to take down all its cameras
www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/10/c...
www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/10/c...
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Speed cameras work.
When cameras are installed, they issue many violations in the first month, followed by a steep decline in the second month. This suggests that the cameras effectively deter speeding by changing underlying driver behavior rather than relying on sustained revenue extraction.
December 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Speed cameras work.
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Ok, shifting gears from signals - can we drop a lane each direction heading into this intersection instead? What about a series of preceding speedbumps? And yes, I do mean bumps, not humps.
By grounding the crossing, we can have a larger park. But how do we propose to make the crossing safe? Instinct is signal, but that's not legally allowed. So instead, they're adding a raised crosswalk with overhead signals and a bi-directional bike lane on east side
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December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Ok, shifting gears from signals - can we drop a lane each direction heading into this intersection instead? What about a series of preceding speedbumps? And yes, I do mean bumps, not humps.
The new designs for the McGrath highway removal were presented in a public meeting tonight. @joanliu.bsky.social got screenshots of the slides, and there's so many good improvements. Bike lanes! Raised crossings! #SomervilleMA #MassDOT #HighwayRemoval #McGrathBoulevard
Next intersection: Washington St. Before and proposed
They're removing the overpass (the deficient one)
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They're removing the overpass (the deficient one)
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December 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The new designs for the McGrath highway removal were presented in a public meeting tonight. @joanliu.bsky.social got screenshots of the slides, and there's so many good improvements. Bike lanes! Raised crossings! #SomervilleMA #MassDOT #HighwayRemoval #McGrathBoulevard
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
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Storrow Drive honors James Storrow, who worked to preserve the Charles as a public park — despite the fact that neither he nor his widow ever wanted a road built there.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Storrow Drive honors James Storrow, who worked to preserve the Charles as a public park — despite the fact that neither he nor his widow ever wanted a road built there.
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🚧TANTALIZING! We all hate the awful 90° intersection of the Community Path and School St, and at long last some possible solutions are emerging. Three scenarios, still early in planning/feasibility, were just presented to the Council! More info: somervillema.legistar.com/MeetingDetai...
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
🚧TANTALIZING! We all hate the awful 90° intersection of the Community Path and School St, and at long last some possible solutions are emerging. Three scenarios, still early in planning/feasibility, were just presented to the Council! More info: somervillema.legistar.com/MeetingDetai...
TIL #Boston is an island
Hello Team “Mother Brook Truthers” 😂
We do enjoy pointing out the “actually Boston is an island” interpretation on our tours along the trail to the Mother Brook confluence in Hyde Park
archboston.com/community/th...
We do enjoy pointing out the “actually Boston is an island” interpretation on our tours along the trail to the Mother Brook confluence in Hyde Park
archboston.com/community/th...
Boston: Its an Island
Is this common knowledge? Do i spend way too much time in live maps? today I discovered that technically, Boston is an island.
The charles river flows from downtown inland, and then once it hits rout...
archboston.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
TIL #Boston is an island
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
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📅 Mark your calendars for 2 public meetings on the McGrath Highway reconstruction project!
1st is an open house, Thursday, Dec 4 from 6:30-8 at the Somerville High School Cafeteria.
2nd is a virtual public hearing Tuesday, Dec 9 from 6:30-8. You can register for the meeting here: bit.ly/438tylp .
1st is an open house, Thursday, Dec 4 from 6:30-8 at the Somerville High School Cafeteria.
2nd is a virtual public hearing Tuesday, Dec 9 from 6:30-8. You can register for the meeting here: bit.ly/438tylp .
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
📅 Mark your calendars for 2 public meetings on the McGrath Highway reconstruction project!
1st is an open house, Thursday, Dec 4 from 6:30-8 at the Somerville High School Cafeteria.
2nd is a virtual public hearing Tuesday, Dec 9 from 6:30-8. You can register for the meeting here: bit.ly/438tylp .
1st is an open house, Thursday, Dec 4 from 6:30-8 at the Somerville High School Cafeteria.
2nd is a virtual public hearing Tuesday, Dec 9 from 6:30-8. You can register for the meeting here: bit.ly/438tylp .
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
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Just in time for winter’s shorter days—the City has installed new lighting on previously unlit segments of the Community Path Extension to deliver a safer and more comfortable experience for people using the path after dark!
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Just in time for winter’s shorter days—the City has installed new lighting on previously unlit segments of the Community Path Extension to deliver a safer and more comfortable experience for people using the path after dark!
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Welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social little girl!
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social little girl!
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Somerville Completes Installation of Community Path Lighting Improvements - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/14/s...
Somerville Completes Installation of Community Path Lighting Improvements - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Just in time for the darkest days of the winter, the City of Somerville has finished its installation of new lighting along its Community Path, a segment of the Mass. Central Rail Trail. Lighting alon...
mass.streetsblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Somerville Completes Installation of Community Path Lighting Improvements - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/14/s...
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"We joke that there are 365 days of the year, and the last day of picking is day 365," Cape Cod cranberry farmer James Ross told WBUR. "Then day one of next year starts."
How cranberries go from Mass. bogs to your Thanksgiving plate
Each year, Massachusetts’ cranberry farmers grow and harvest roughly 200 million pounds of cranberries. Here’s a glimpse at their yearlong effort to bring their crop to your plate in time for Thanksgiving.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"We joke that there are 365 days of the year, and the last day of picking is day 365," Cape Cod cranberry farmer James Ross told WBUR. "Then day one of next year starts."
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I like these sidewalk-level bike lanes that also have separation from pedestrian space on the sidewalk with pretty materials like cobblestone and/or trees.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I like these sidewalk-level bike lanes that also have separation from pedestrian space on the sidewalk with pretty materials like cobblestone and/or trees.
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People in my "progressive" neighborhood NIMBY'd a *senior affordable housing development* into reducing its units from 71 to 41. Just an absolute moral travesty. (Rogerson/Beaufort project in JP)
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
People in my "progressive" neighborhood NIMBY'd a *senior affordable housing development* into reducing its units from 71 to 41. Just an absolute moral travesty. (Rogerson/Beaufort project in JP)
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The Nova Scotia Christmas tree is officially on its way to the oldest public park in America! Thank you from Boston to our northerly neighbors for well over a century of friendship & care.
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The Nova Scotia Christmas tree is officially on its way to the oldest public park in America! Thank you from Boston to our northerly neighbors for well over a century of friendship & care.
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Checking out Halifax Transit—same buses as in Boston!
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Checking out Halifax Transit—same buses as in Boston!
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In the 1990s in San Francisco, I remember when the familiar sound of foghorns on the bay ceased to be necessary for maritime navigation.
People immediately yelled at the city government demanding that it install a fake foghorn to preserve the ambience.
People immediately yelled at the city government demanding that it install a fake foghorn to preserve the ambience.
I don't doubt this for a second and once you understand this, you will understand a lot about people
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In the 1990s in San Francisco, I remember when the familiar sound of foghorns on the bay ceased to be necessary for maritime navigation.
People immediately yelled at the city government demanding that it install a fake foghorn to preserve the ambience.
People immediately yelled at the city government demanding that it install a fake foghorn to preserve the ambience.
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"Rich folks live on Power Street, but most of us live off Hope.”
Hello! I’m Kenny Uong, and since 2022, I’ve been grateful to call Ward 3 in Providence home. I’m inspired by the people who breathe life and energy into our East Side communities. I’m excited to share that I’m exploring a run... (1/2)
Hello! I’m Kenny Uong, and since 2022, I’ve been grateful to call Ward 3 in Providence home. I’m inspired by the people who breathe life and energy into our East Side communities. I’m excited to share that I’m exploring a run... (1/2)
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"Rich folks live on Power Street, but most of us live off Hope.”
Hello! I’m Kenny Uong, and since 2022, I’ve been grateful to call Ward 3 in Providence home. I’m inspired by the people who breathe life and energy into our East Side communities. I’m excited to share that I’m exploring a run... (1/2)
Hello! I’m Kenny Uong, and since 2022, I’ve been grateful to call Ward 3 in Providence home. I’m inspired by the people who breathe life and energy into our East Side communities. I’m excited to share that I’m exploring a run... (1/2)
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This has flown under the radar bit, but this is great news and long overdue by the Massachusetts legislature.
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This has flown under the radar bit, but this is great news and long overdue by the Massachusetts legislature.
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
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It’s not even “papers please” anymore…
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
‘This is kidnapping — plain and simple’: ICE arrests 9 employees at Allston car wash
The employees were detained Tuesday morning before they could present their documents, according to the car wash’s manager.
www.boston.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
It’s not even “papers please” anymore…
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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The hierarchy of controls in this article is excellent!
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The hierarchy of controls in this article is excellent!
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A modest study confirms anecdotal evidence that drivers have no idea what to do with HAWK / PHB signals at pedestrian crossings ... and that the do dangerous shit like accelerating to get through -exactly- when a pedestrian is likely to be rushing to make the signal.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
www.umass.edu/news/article...
Crosswalk Confusion: UMass Amherst Researchers Find Massachusetts Drivers Flummoxed by Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons | UMass Amherst
Among other findings, the researchers also discovered that nearly a quarter of drivers run through red lights at the beacons.
www.umass.edu
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A modest study confirms anecdotal evidence that drivers have no idea what to do with HAWK / PHB signals at pedestrian crossings ... and that the do dangerous shit like accelerating to get through -exactly- when a pedestrian is likely to be rushing to make the signal.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
www.umass.edu/news/article...