That would be an absolute travesty to give up $100,000,000 in federal funding in this environment.
06.03.2026 01:47
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That would be an absolute travesty to give up $100,000,000 in federal funding in this environment.
Accessibility Advocates Press @boston.gov City Council for Better Snow Removal - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/03/03/a...
a bike lane with a pile of snow in it
the same bike lane, but there is now a path shoveled through the pile of snow.
A 90% cleared bike lane is a good start but not good enough! @cityofsomerville.bsky.social clearing was better than last storm, but please don't leave mounds of snow in the middle of bike lanes. I don't like spending an hour shoveling so that people can pass.
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Great to see @somervilleinfr1.bsky.social Western Pearl St Reconstruction awarded funding!
Meanwhile a team of four trucks and six crew from the City's Parking and Transportation department was working for half an hour around the corner clearing out the entrance to a PARKING GARAGE.
I asked if they could help and they said "we don't do bus stops."
@mayorjakewilson.bsky.social can the fines we issue to properties that fail to shovel fund a community snow clear program like this?
This is specifically a program for clearing "crosswalks, bus stops, and fire hydrants."
As someone who spent 45 minutes clearing a Somerville crosswalk *4 weeks* after our last storm, I think that building capacity for things like this--such that you can throw $$ at it--is a good idea for cities.
Six more weeks of unplowed bike lanes.
Eyes On the Street: Three Weeks After the Storm, Snow Woes Remain Across Greater Boston - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/20/e...
An idea I've seen is for the USPS to provide banking services. I think what you're describing could be accomplished like this; use USPS locations to loan money directly to individuals at the same federal funds rate that banks get.
It’s a travel lane or it’s not, @311somerville.bsky.social.
It is, in fact, insulting that our cities can’t even manage to keep the main roadways clear - weeks after the snow stopped.
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Could the @boston.gov please clear the bike lanes on the Evelyn Moakley Bridge? @mayorwu.boston.gov @edflynnforboston.bsky.social @gigi4district1.bsky.social @universalhub.com @fpnaboston.bsky.social @bikeboston.bsky.social @walkmass.bsky.social @wbztv.bsky.social @fortpointer.bsky.social
Guest Column from @walkmass.bsky.social:
Enough With the Snow, We Deserve Accessible Sidewalks - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/10/g...
A well designed pedestrian refuge #sneckdown here on Broadway in Somerville. I say we keep it! Many pedestrians stand on the grassy island when they don't make it all the way across.
I feel like Boston could stand to clear access to the pedestrian signal buttons - especially right next to the hospital.
Is Winter Urban Cycle Commuting in the Olympics this year?
Ask the city how the School St snow clearing pilot is going. www.somervillema.gov/departments/...
Why not use the fine $ to pay our teen shovelers to clear noncompliant sidewalks if DPW doesn’t have the capacity? Or just a bounty program where any resident can claim an unshoveled area, shovel it, and be compensated? @mayorjakewilson.bsky.social @somervilleinfr1.bsky.social
I’m a bummed by the incomplete job of snow clearing that Cambridge and Somerville have done.
Even larger through-ways are still constructed (Oxford is today’s example) side streets are f-ing tight, sight lines at corners are garbage, etc, etc.
Are we planning to wait for it to melt, or what?
Screenshot of Somerville’s School St/Broadway snow clearing pilot. It specifies that the city will fine properties who don’t clear the sidewalk and the city will shovel any uncleared sidewalks and curb cuts.
The reliance on private property owners to do the right thing is just not effective. I think the fine+shovel pilot on School/Broadway is the right model, but the city abandoned points 2 and 3 of this so School St is just as bad as every other.
Is there anything Wu or the current BPDA can do to force Millennium to address the shortfalls and broken commitments?
I had a friend visit this weekend who is still a bit wobbly from a broken ankle earlier in the year and OH WOW do I have a much clearer picture about the importance of clearing sidewalks, curb cuts, rail crossings, and the rest now.
Melters are the kind of thing a city would buy and then we’d get very little snow for the next 3 years and there would be scandalous headlines in the Herald decrying the wasted $600,000.
Photo showing the new bridge with plowed car lanes and shoveled sidewalk, but a foot of snow in the bike lane.
Opened with much fanfare last year as a key bike connection to the city, the Bill Russell Bridge’s bike lanes have not been shoveled over a week after the snowstorm. @massdot.bsky.social @mass.streetsblog.org @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov
Eyes On the Street: Days After the Storm, Boston’s Sidewalks Are An Inaccessible Mess - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/01/29/e...
Thank you! If you have an update on request 1541601 for the same area that would be great!
Jake, I appreciate the statement and the focus on improvement. I’d really like to hear more about what can be done for sidewalks. School St, despite being part of the priority shoveling pilot, is completely blocked still.
Dismounting required for all users of the Community Path at School St, its most dangerous intersection. Curb cut and adjacent sidewalk not shoveled.
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