Great example of half assed planning on garden: where garden and Shepard meet there's a cross walk. When it was a 2 way street it didn't matter what side the cross walk was on, but now that it's a one way cars trying to turn onto garden are turning directly into the cross walk, meaning bikes/pedestrians crossing will stop traffic on 2 streets instead of just one. Why didn't the city move the crosswalk? It would be a huge improvement for everyone using the roads, and it would even line up the Shepard bike lane with the crossing. Doesn't take a massive study to see this, and even though we paid for one it was missed. Crazy

The lack of cross road signage makes the bike lanes really dangerous. If you know garden, you know to look at both lanes and in which direction, but if you're not from here you're out of luck. Also doing a split bike lane is a huge waste of infrastructure. Not only does it require twice the plowing and twice the bollards, but it also makes it harder for busses to navigate the road and it makes the road just awful to try to navigate in the winter.

As other threads have mentioned, the garden street bike lane mostly services students too, so why they decided to put one of the bike lanes in a spot to encourage students to ride the wrong way is confusing.

I love the brattle bike lanes because it's much less confusing and much easier to use. The only real downside to brattle imo is you need to pull over into a parking spot to try to cross the street. But that's an issue with any bike lane. I'm curious why people think brattle is bad and garden is good?

Just an FYI, most Renters insurance policies have a theft claim. Doesn’t replace any data loss but you can recover the value of your computer.

I printed out 15 flyers, and I am planning to put out 10 between Central Square and Mass + Hancock, and maybe 5 more at Harvard Square/Porter Square/Kendall.

I even had the description, serial number, and even my phone number as well.

Mass+Hancock doesn't seem to be a place with high crime compared to Central, which is a hotbed of crime and I didn't seem to see any criminals or impoverished people when I hit except for thr aggressive truck driver.

Also, just FYI, the bag was completely closed at the time of the accident, so no one would know if it contains an expensive computer or something. Also, I was heading Southbound towards Central (the abandoned beige brick building is on the right) and when I turned right to Hancock (towards Riverside Cambridge), I hit a pole and since my eyes started to see floaters due to the crash, I basically waited for 1 minute until proceeding to my destination.

Who’s bent out of shape - I’m asking what else they could’ve done?

Haha, I thought the same thing last time I saw the list of names. Turns out it's just an old white guy with a corporate office job according to Google.

The more interesting names I remember seeing were I think the guy who owns a couple of Dunkins in the Cambridge/Belmont area and I want to say a few other local business owners beyond the standard coo coo for cocoa puffs lady that runs a certain gluten free bakery on Mass Ave. The dunks guy was the funniest, since that Dunks on Mass Ave literally has a private parking lot clearly visible from the street and I highly doubt anyone ever actually had to street park to get their dunkies.

EDIT: ah yes, from this article you can find the list of folks who joined in the lawsuit. Of note were:

• A guy who ran for City Council on combating climate change of all things (obv it's those people on bikes causing massive amounts of pollution!! not the massive 18 wheelers delivering to fucking dunks or the sea of tail lights driven by suburbanites who didn't want to deal with the red line and shitty bus connections...)
• Country superstar Toby Keith's evil twin who's a corporate office worker in Cambridge
• some random names I don't recognize, though maybe one's an attorney in Quincy
• The guy who owns City Paint on Mass Ave.

Maybe the other lawsuit had the guy who owns some Dunkins in the area; though I def remember seeing a quote from them somewhere and laughing when I looked them up.

EDIT2: oh yeah I forgot there was this second lawsuit with a longer list of names, though it was this article that noted in one of the lawsuits there was an affidavit by the owner of the Dunkins in North Cambridge. The quote from him is hilarious:

> “where he attests to a devastating loss of business … with the notation that he doesn’t think he can survive in business if that bike lane isn’t adjusted to permit on street parking,” Zaleznik said. “I don’t know the last time I heard of a Dunkin’ Donuts in Massachusetts going out of business or threatening to go out of business … if they can’t make it, I would suggest that almost no business can.”

Clearly he forgot he owns a small parking lot that can easily handle the traffic from a handful of people running in for 5 mins to buy a cup of coffee and a dozen donuts for their office breakfast.

I would also suggest putting up a flyer near where your crash happened in case somebody grabbed it to keep it safe

Yes? I gave them all the info i had, and yea i expected the cops to do more than fuckall considering it was breaking and entering and stolen property valued in excess of 1000 USD, which is a felony on its own. Idk why you’re so bent out of shape about my comment sharing my experience lol

File a lost property or larceny report and provide them with the details. They periodically check the online markets for stolen/lost gear.

“gave the cops everything they could possibly need”. So you provided a serial number and a receipt maybe? What else are the cops suppose to do? They check all the online re-selling markets already.

Unless there was some evidentiary value during the break in (unlikely) there is not much anyone can do. It’s not CSI.

How about Find My?

Fortunately that judge prevented the City from spending a lot more money fighting these idiots

Agreed. Garden is an improvement.

How do you think Brattle is good but Garden is bad? The Garden lanes are transformative

Check craigslist

Did you have activation lock turned on? https://www.macworld.com/article/1485237/mac-security-t2-chip-macbook-activation-lock.html

don't want to be a downer but it is extremely unlikely the police will do anything about it. I had my close fried have their laptop stolen from their apartment (breaking and entering) and we gave the cops everything they could possibly need and they did nothing. I recommend you start looking at craigslist/offerup/Facebook marketplace to see if your laptop pops up there. I'd also recommend contacting apple to say your laptop got stolen to see if they can do anything to help or at least make sure that any info you have on iCloud is secure and that your laptop gets remotely wiped so that the thieves can't steal any personal info off of it. good luck, and sorry this happened to you

It says one of the plaintiffs' name is Toby Leith....nice try Mr. Tony Keith! We now know your hidden identity, nice try! Country musical genius my ass-i managed to solve that puzzle in a mere 10 minutes!

/s ?

They never removed the board, they just forgot about it for a few decades. The traffic board would not have any say over a city ordinance anyways, they only have a say on road rules and regulations i.e. parking fines. Furthermore, the new traffic board will only serve as an advisory group, they'll have no direct power.

I'm a fan of well designed bike lanes (looking at your brattle, all lanes should be like you), but if the law required a safety board to review, and it removed the board and then put in a bunch of shit bike lanes (looking at you garden), then how was the lawsuit dismissed? What is the point of the law if we can just ignore it?

Extreme prejudice...

You love to see it :D

Last meeting had some stats on crashes, there's a lot of them :(

In theory the MassAve4 construction might include some improvements to Porter Square too; how much is up to the city, but faster buses are a priority they didn't address in original project and my impression is they want to revisit that. And so maybe that might involve partial reconstruction ala the rest of MassAve4, or not, we'll learn more this year probably.

Separately, if the experiment with concrete barriers goes well on Brattle St, hopefully those will get rolled out across the city.

What a waste of taxpayer dollars.