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Bike lane pops up on Tremont Street downtown
By adamg on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 10:01pm
The Boston Transportation Department reports crews created a new pop-up bicycle lane on Tremont Street along the Common this evening as part of the city's Healthy Streets program.
H/t Adam C.
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WHY DID THIS TAKE SO LONG?!
WHY DID THIS TAKE SO LONG?!
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Yeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Although I have been going
Although I have been going through that area regularly for a long time, it never occurred to me to count the traffic & parking lanes around the Common and Public Garden. I did that earlier this month, and noticed that around the Garden where every street is one-way, there is never less than 5 lanes for cars, and 6 lanes for good parts it. It’s almost as bad around the Common, the main difference being that Beacon and a small portion of Boylston are 2-ways. Even the quaint portion of Charles St in Beacon Hill with its narrow sidewalks has 5 lanes dedicated to cars the entire way.
In spite of all the promises, the City has been dragging its feet for years on doing any meaningful improvements that’s not just for cars in this prime area -and just about everywhere else. We are almost 6 months into this pandemic thing, and outside of outdoor dining, hardly any of the “Boston Healthy Street” plan has been implemented.
A typical repeating pattern
1. Somebody decides to enforce the ban on bikes on the common
2. Cycling organizations say "fair enough - but what about using some of that excessive lane space for a cycle track around the common?"
3. Politicians either pitch fits for every inch of pavement for cars that aren't there, or they make soothing noises about "studying" it.
4. Enforcement of bike ban vanishes
5. Signs and paint fade/disappear
6. Repeat
You forgot 4a
Entitled cyclists resume illegally using the Common.
I didn't forget it
Because what usually happens is cyclists actually legally use the surrounding streets and whinging entitled motorists like you drive aggressively around us, honk, and scream "GET ON THE SIDEWALK" or "GET YOUR ASS IN THE PARK".
All because they had to use a different lane of the five open ones.
Your entitled lot simply cannot have it both ways, dear.
So many car lanes and some of
So many car lanes and some of the sidewalks are so narrow they barely fit two people. Look at the sidewalk in front of the Granary burying ground. It’s on the Freedom Trail usually full of tourists and workers yet the sidewalk is tiny. Meanwhile cars get way more space than necessary in the same spot.
Why not? No need to drive a car into empty, devastated city
n/t
Still plenty of room
Still plenty of room for motor vehicle traffic in that picture. Looks like two vehicles just went through that crossing.
And more importantly
Looks like there's at least 6 or 7 human beings moving through the picture under their own power (and how ever many more in those motor vehicles (probably just 1 per vehicle though)).
Could you make it any more obvious you don't live here?
Empty, I would have granted you a couple months ago, but you obviously haven't tried to drive in Boston recently.
Devastated? Oh, please. Even Portland isn't devastated.
Speaking of Portland
Life goes on there, except nearly everyone is extremely angry because of Trump's illegal invasion. At least that is what my family and friends who actually live in the city are saying.
Here's the dope from someone who lives there, scroll down to the photoessay by Daniel Pickens-Jones on July 20: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/portlandundersiege
(my apologies that I could not find a way to share this outside of Facebook - he didn't put this on Twitter)
Devastated city
Only in your wild imagination because you clearly spend no time there - if you ever did.
Oh, but let's just throw more cops at it. Maybe we can have them shoot at COVID targets with tiny bullets until they get reeeeeeeeeeallllll good. Why bother with public health and doctors and medical researchers when you can defund all that and give the cops special science fiction laser guided military weapons to suppress stuff?
Serious question:
why do you spend so much time reading and commenting on news about a city that's apparently empty, devastated, and you clearly don't spend any time in? Clearly there's nothing here for you to be interested in, so why not move on?
Trolling
Is his retirement activity.
Good point
We could probably defund the cops a bit considering the city is empty now. Good looking out, Fish!
Thank you BTD
Thank you to the City for installing these pop-up bike lanes. Let's make them into permanent infrastructure in the downtown and in all neighborhoods of our city. It would be amazing to someday be able to safely bike from one part of Boston to any other part of the city in protected cycle lanes! Every person biking out there (or walking, or taking the T) is one less person driving and this is good for all the other drivers as there will be less congestion! Less cars will mean less pollution and a more healthy city. In the long run, these lanes are good for the city as a whole.
Not if the person biking used
Not if the person biking used to take the T. Which is much more common that someone switching from driving to biking, since most subway commutes are within biking distance but a drive from Sudbury doesn't work so well on a bike.
Still better
for those riding the T, since it's a less crowded commute.
Instead of policies aimed at
Instead of policies aimed at getting people off the T, I'd prefer to fix the T.
They can start with the signal system. There's no reason why trains scheduled every 5 minutes should stack up in a massive train traffic jam every day. Fixing this would go a long way towards making the T into a functioning subway like other cities have.
More bike lanes less T crowding during a pandemic
I love the idea of additional protected bike lanes in the city. As an essential worker since the beginning of the pandemic I have avoided the T and chose to walk or bike instead. Dear UHub readers just a reminder don't be like the cyclists in the pic remember to wear a helmet. A bike helmet saved my life when I was in an accident years ago.
It's a wonderful vision. And
It's a wonderful vision. And places like Paris did it in a few weeks. It would completely transform and dynamize the city.
Maybe someday we actually CAN get there from here...
Bus stops?
What does this mean for the bus stops (Silver Line, 43, 55) that were along that side of Tremont?
Gap in the barrels, and bikes
Gap in the barrels, and bikes and buses have to work it out?
They should make this .....
.... permanent and make it a bike/bus lane.
Stop adding bike lanes...
Until cities and towns get serious about making it easier for buses. Dedicated lanes, making sure that they aren't blocked, so that drivers can stay on schedule and prevent over-crowded vehicles. People using the bus right now don't have a choice, it's their last, or maybe only, option.