Eric Stone
@eric4brookline.bsky.social
Dad of 2 PSB kids, Town Meeting Member Precinct 8 ("the fightin' 8th"), Shared Mobility Advisory Committee, Entrepreneur, Musician, Oberlin & Temple Alum
block party on Beals today — simple process via the town permits website to close the street to traffic for the afternoon
come say hi!
and consider one for your street!
come say hi!
and consider one for your street!
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
block party on Beals today — simple process via the town permits website to close the street to traffic for the afternoon
come say hi!
and consider one for your street!
come say hi!
and consider one for your street!
wtf with this sign
how bout cars don't hit people
slow the eff down with your 8 ton Range Rover idk
how bout cars don't hit people
slow the eff down with your 8 ton Range Rover idk
August 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf with this sign
how bout cars don't hit people
slow the eff down with your 8 ton Range Rover idk
how bout cars don't hit people
slow the eff down with your 8 ton Range Rover idk
another instance of small/local businesses benefitting from more pedestrian infrastructure (in this case literally an entire roadway closing)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
This California Highway Is Now a Park. The Cars Are Gone, but Not the Anger.
www.nytimes.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
another instance of small/local businesses benefitting from more pedestrian infrastructure (in this case literally an entire roadway closing)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
in 2023 7,314 people were killed by someone driving their precious car or truck into them (preliminary numbers for 2024 show a consistent trend)
an attempt to find the corresponding statistic for pedestrians killed by bicycles yields little traction but is almost certainly fewer than 5 per year
an attempt to find the corresponding statistic for pedestrians killed by bicycles yields little traction but is almost certainly fewer than 5 per year
May 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
in 2023 7,314 people were killed by someone driving their precious car or truck into them (preliminary numbers for 2024 show a consistent trend)
an attempt to find the corresponding statistic for pedestrians killed by bicycles yields little traction but is almost certainly fewer than 5 per year
an attempt to find the corresponding statistic for pedestrians killed by bicycles yields little traction but is almost certainly fewer than 5 per year
the eagerness of people to willfully ignore both reason and data when discussing bicycle infrastructure is incredibly galling..
making a dangerous street safer for bikes, pedestrians, public transit riders, and drivers is good for everyone
smh
brookline.news/heated-neigh...
making a dangerous street safer for bikes, pedestrians, public transit riders, and drivers is good for everyone
smh
brookline.news/heated-neigh...
After heated neighborhood meeting, community remains divided over Chestnut Hill Avenue redesign - Brookline.News
The town and community members are still wrestling with how to best redesign Chestnut Hill Avenue, with a heated neighborhood meeting on May 8 demonstrating a deep divide. The central tension remains ...
brookline.news
May 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
the eagerness of people to willfully ignore both reason and data when discussing bicycle infrastructure is incredibly galling..
making a dangerous street safer for bikes, pedestrians, public transit riders, and drivers is good for everyone
smh
brookline.news/heated-neigh...
making a dangerous street safer for bikes, pedestrians, public transit riders, and drivers is good for everyone
smh
brookline.news/heated-neigh...
have been using Boston and Brookline’s mostly excellent @ridebluebikes.bsky.social system lately
by far the biggest issue with the network is your desired destination having no spots when you arrive
why not adopt DC’s policy of a $2 fee to park at a public bike rack?
by far the biggest issue with the network is your desired destination having no spots when you arrive
why not adopt DC’s policy of a $2 fee to park at a public bike rack?
May 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
have been using Boston and Brookline’s mostly excellent @ridebluebikes.bsky.social system lately
by far the biggest issue with the network is your desired destination having no spots when you arrive
why not adopt DC’s policy of a $2 fee to park at a public bike rack?
by far the biggest issue with the network is your desired destination having no spots when you arrive
why not adopt DC’s policy of a $2 fee to park at a public bike rack?
what a nice day for a picnic in the Coolidge Corner Park, you know the one behind the thea-- oh wait it's a giant parking lot
very excited to reimagine this space!!
www.brooklinema.gov/3895/Centre-...
very excited to reimagine this space!!
www.brooklinema.gov/3895/Centre-...
Centre Street Lots Committee | Brookline, MA - Official WebsiteArrow LeftArrow RightSlideshow Left ArrowSlideshow Right Arrow
Guides the visioning process and develops design alternatives for the Town-owned Centre Street East and West Parking Lots located in Coolidge Corner.
www.brooklinema.gov
May 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
what a nice day for a picnic in the Coolidge Corner Park, you know the one behind the thea-- oh wait it's a giant parking lot
very excited to reimagine this space!!
www.brooklinema.gov/3895/Centre-...
very excited to reimagine this space!!
www.brooklinema.gov/3895/Centre-...
excited for this release
increasingly convinced cars are terrible in almost every way
www.lifeaftercars.com
increasingly convinced cars are terrible in almost every way
www.lifeaftercars.com
Life After Cars
www.lifeaftercars.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
excited for this release
increasingly convinced cars are terrible in almost every way
www.lifeaftercars.com
increasingly convinced cars are terrible in almost every way
www.lifeaftercars.com
proud to endorse Michael Rubenstein for Select Board
among many other reasons, he's the only candidate who voted in favor of Brookline's mbta communities act compliance (and even led the Yes! In Brookline campaign that supported it)
happy voting!
among many other reasons, he's the only candidate who voted in favor of Brookline's mbta communities act compliance (and even led the Yes! In Brookline campaign that supported it)
happy voting!
April 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
proud to endorse Michael Rubenstein for Select Board
among many other reasons, he's the only candidate who voted in favor of Brookline's mbta communities act compliance (and even led the Yes! In Brookline campaign that supported it)
happy voting!
among many other reasons, he's the only candidate who voted in favor of Brookline's mbta communities act compliance (and even led the Yes! In Brookline campaign that supported it)
happy voting!
town hero of the week explains why bike lanes and vision zero are good for our neighborhoods (and why disingenuous cries of foul play are just that)
brookline.news/re-what-to-k...
brookline.news/re-what-to-k...
RE: What to know about the town’s plan for bike lanes on Chestnut Hill Avenue - Brookline.News
I cannot recall a more polarized Bicycle Advisory Committee meeting than last month’s Chestnut Hill Avenue redesign hearing, where CHA residents and others cried foul at the proposed removal of (illeg...
brookline.news
April 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
town hero of the week explains why bike lanes and vision zero are good for our neighborhoods (and why disingenuous cries of foul play are just that)
brookline.news/re-what-to-k...
brookline.news/re-what-to-k...
wen betting market for whether he’s even read the declaration of independence
March 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
wen betting market for whether he’s even read the declaration of independence
this is simultaneously so scary and depressing I almost can't believe they're doing it but then I remember it's them
bsky.app/profile/evan...
bsky.app/profile/evan...
Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
March 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
this is simultaneously so scary and depressing I almost can't believe they're doing it but then I remember it's them
bsky.app/profile/evan...
bsky.app/profile/evan...
🚨🚨town grump on the week alert🚨🚨
sir we live in a society
sir we live in a society
February 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🚨🚨town grump on the week alert🚨🚨
sir we live in a society
sir we live in a society
rationalize it however you want
the reality is our FY26 plan puts the schools in financial peril while preserving nearly all town staffing and projects
we can and must work together to do better for our kids, our teachers, and our schools
the reality is our FY26 plan puts the schools in financial peril while preserving nearly all town staffing and projects
we can and must work together to do better for our kids, our teachers, and our schools
February 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
rationalize it however you want
the reality is our FY26 plan puts the schools in financial peril while preserving nearly all town staffing and projects
we can and must work together to do better for our kids, our teachers, and our schools
the reality is our FY26 plan puts the schools in financial peril while preserving nearly all town staffing and projects
we can and must work together to do better for our kids, our teachers, and our schools
if Town Meeting were presented 2 budgets for FY 26 (total budget of ~$440 million)
one that gave the Schools $6 million more (1.35% of the total) at the expense of non-school departments, which one would you vote for?
followup question, why doesn't Town Meeting get to make such a choice?
one that gave the Schools $6 million more (1.35% of the total) at the expense of non-school departments, which one would you vote for?
followup question, why doesn't Town Meeting get to make such a choice?
February 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
if Town Meeting were presented 2 budgets for FY 26 (total budget of ~$440 million)
one that gave the Schools $6 million more (1.35% of the total) at the expense of non-school departments, which one would you vote for?
followup question, why doesn't Town Meeting get to make such a choice?
one that gave the Schools $6 million more (1.35% of the total) at the expense of non-school departments, which one would you vote for?
followup question, why doesn't Town Meeting get to make such a choice?
nice read summarizing how "in study after study, in city after city" small business owners' opposition to bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure has proved misplaced
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
February 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
nice read summarizing how "in study after study, in city after city" small business owners' opposition to bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure has proved misplaced
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
claps for Cambridge for doing the right thing here
..so many rebuttals to choose from..
going with: should have referred this to the comprehensive planning committee
..so many rebuttals to choose from..
going with: should have referred this to the comprehensive planning committee
February 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
claps for Cambridge for doing the right thing here
..so many rebuttals to choose from..
going with: should have referred this to the comprehensive planning committee
..so many rebuttals to choose from..
going with: should have referred this to the comprehensive planning committee
how many things in one blorp?
more money for schools, more houses and apartments, more speed humps, better T stops, more bike lanes, fewer cars going slower, more buses & trains, social workers not SROs, fewer more-accountable representatives, broader reproductive rights, athletics for all
more money for schools, more houses and apartments, more speed humps, better T stops, more bike lanes, fewer cars going slower, more buses & trains, social workers not SROs, fewer more-accountable representatives, broader reproductive rights, athletics for all
February 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
how many things in one blorp?
more money for schools, more houses and apartments, more speed humps, better T stops, more bike lanes, fewer cars going slower, more buses & trains, social workers not SROs, fewer more-accountable representatives, broader reproductive rights, athletics for all
more money for schools, more houses and apartments, more speed humps, better T stops, more bike lanes, fewer cars going slower, more buses & trains, social workers not SROs, fewer more-accountable representatives, broader reproductive rights, athletics for all