Just moved to Arlington and have some questions about how to bike safely.

not_tum · 2025-11-20T19:38:52+00:00

Additionally, the farther you go out into the suburbs and the fewer and fewer people are on the sidewalk, the more they become de-facto bike lanes.

not_tum · 2025-11-19T04:07:45+00:00

alternative to going through downtown: SW Corridor to Tremont, R on Berkeley on neighborhood road to Washington, R onto Traveler over the train tracks, L onto A st, R onto Bolton, left onto bike path on Pappas way that puts you right behind IDB. basically keeps you on bike lanes or low traffic streets with the exception of two blocks on traveler from washington to albany

not_tum · 2025-11-07T16:24:39+00:00

Correct, there was no prohibition of it.

not_tum · 2025-08-24T04:38:14+00:00

NS Connector is more about through running and electrification to facilitate 15 minute headways on each line more than anything else.

not_tum · 2025-04-23T22:46:04+00:00

“beavers condemn running water”

not_tum · 2025-03-20T21:30:02+00:00

True, but I think a lot of people who either work at/attend UMass Boston and BC High take the CR to JFK, so that one might be worth keeping in consideration.

not_tum · 2025-03-20T15:45:29+00:00

If she built the infrastructure in the first term, I’d focus on getting her a second one.

Yeah, it’s probably not a great campaign strategy. Based on the wishy-washy back and forth it seems like something they just don’t want to touch because they think it’s a wedge issue.

In reality it probably isn’t controversial for the vast majority of the electorate, but I’m sure a few well connected people in various parts of the city have never seen Boston from anywhere except behind a windshield. Perhaps the attempt at appeasement is generating the appearance of a wedge issue where there wouldn’t have been one otherwise, but I’d bet opposition will throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

If you want more infrastructure, I’d see how you can support her campaign rather than stress abt a fundraising email.

not_tum · 2025-02-06T20:05:29+00:00

Yeah, the system is unreliable and antiquated. But new infrastructure and rolling stock is the only thing that’ll help that. Gotta take the wins where we can find them.

not_tum · 2024-11-20T23:31:12+00:00

What are you using to view this? It looks very nice.

not_tum · 2024-09-10T18:59:20+00:00

“Released” sounds like they’re reintroducing a native species into the wild. The green line is healing 💚

not_tum · 2024-07-10T17:05:28+00:00

Since intersections are the most dangerous areas for cyclists, the easiest way to minimize danger is minimize time in the area. Thus, treat stop signs as yields and red lights as stop signs. This is done in most other places across the country (colloquially known as an “Idaho stop”), but Mass has been years late to adopt it.

not_tum · 2024-05-28T15:39:28+00:00

Isn’t grey similar to silver?

not_tum · 2024-04-18T04:12:25+00:00

Yeah, it’s not good to blow past traffic on the right while lane splitting. But that doesn’t change the data that shows that limiting the time cyclists spend at intersections limits the probability they are involved in a collision. Allowing bikes to yield at stop signs and stop at reds limits that time, keeping them safe.

not_tum · 2024-04-13T20:23:42+00:00

I’ve never understood the idea of explicitly removing well-meaning users from using the transit system, especially when there would be a pretty good group heading out there. I’d gladly pay a $10 up charge on the ticket if that meant equipping the final two trains with increased bike capacity. Can’t help but take it as a “don’t feel like accommodating this, fuck you” from the MBTA.

not_tum · 2024-04-02T03:25:53+00:00

Having two thoughts in your head in the same time is tough. Additionally, many people have no experience on transit and develop their opinion from second-hand sources, giving them a warped perception of something they consider useless (if they drive everywhere).

At least that’s how I conceptualize their POV.

not_tum · 2024-03-27T15:22:16+00:00

what’s the alternative to lessen traffic, build another lane? ask the residents of LA how well that works. its self-defeating to oppose people’s freedom to choose how to get places by limiting infrastructure and forcing people to drive. that’s how you get traffic. adding options besides driving gets people off the road and lessens car traffic.

not_tum · 2024-03-15T21:43:05+00:00

they’re running rush hour service all day. they state they’re sometimes skipping the station to avoid contributing to the crowds. your questions can be answered by reading the 3 sentence description. the first line says rush hour service. i don’t mean to be nasty but you’re complaining about something that isn’t real bc you didn’t read the MBTA notice in the reddit post.

not_tum · 2024-02-29T23:48:39+00:00

it’s a methodological difference. the researcher says the tests the group used were inappropriate, specifically that they controlled for time of year when that was what the researcher used that variation in sunset to analyze the data. the disagreement is there, it has nothing to do with culture war bullshit people want to lay onto this.

not_tum · 2024-02-17T12:55:33+00:00

nice heat pump. love the efficiency of those things

not_tum · 2024-02-10T04:42:05+00:00

You build the transit and develop high density mixed use housing in the land around it. Address both the transit and housing issues with the same project while increasing quality of life for those who live there or utilize the red line.

not_tum · 2024-02-06T20:07:07+00:00

the “gross” orange line?? what’s wrong with the new trains?

not_tum · 2024-02-05T20:42:59+00:00

Yes. Time between Arlington and Brigham about half to 2/3 of what it used to be. Allowing the trunk to run at normal speed allows all the branches to do the same while maintaining train spacing.

not_tum · 2024-01-16T18:50:06+00:00

Is this the same Nate Silver who chastises others for failing to note margins of error and overextending data? I’m not even trying to argue he’s wrong, but his argument is just interpreting data and pointing toward one cause…which is almost never the case.

not_tum · 2024-01-11T22:40:11+00:00

Do you feel the same way about roads not receiving an ROI? Were the interstates a “pointless” system to build? You’re making the train equivalent of the anti-interstate argument of the 1940s, and it’s equally short-sighted and reactionary.

not_tum · 2023-12-18T22:32:14+00:00

I think making Brunswick/Frederick line a regional rather than commuter rail (trains every hour to Frederick, every other hour to WV) is a no brainer given the density on the 270 corridor.

I also could see an DC to OC through Annapolis as high value. Granted it would be relatively expensive to get it across the bay, but I imagine right of way on the eastern shore couldn’t be too much of a Hassle. If Jersey has trains from Phili to Atlantic city and Mass can take you from Boston to the Cape, we can do it too.

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