Sky Rose
@skyqrose.bsky.social
Streets, transit, and local politics in Boston/Cambridge/Somverille
I'm on the fediverse: https://better.boston/@sky
I'm on the fediverse: https://better.boston/@sky
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
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📅 Mark your calendars for 2 public meetings on the McGrath Highway reconstruction project!
1st is an open house, Thursday, Dec 4 from 6:30-8 at the Somerville High School Cafeteria.
2nd is a virtual public hearing Tuesday, Dec 9 from 6:30-8. You can register for the meeting here: bit.ly/438tylp .
1st is an open house, Thursday, Dec 4 from 6:30-8 at the Somerville High School Cafeteria.
2nd is a virtual public hearing Tuesday, Dec 9 from 6:30-8. You can register for the meeting here: bit.ly/438tylp .
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
📅 Mark your calendars for 2 public meetings on the McGrath Highway reconstruction project!
1st is an open house, Thursday, Dec 4 from 6:30-8 at the Somerville High School Cafeteria.
2nd is a virtual public hearing Tuesday, Dec 9 from 6:30-8. You can register for the meeting here: bit.ly/438tylp .
1st is an open house, Thursday, Dec 4 from 6:30-8 at the Somerville High School Cafeteria.
2nd is a virtual public hearing Tuesday, Dec 9 from 6:30-8. You can register for the meeting here: bit.ly/438tylp .
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
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Just in time for winter’s shorter days—the City has installed new lighting on previously unlit segments of the Community Path Extension to deliver a safer and more comfortable experience for people using the path after dark!
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Just in time for winter’s shorter days—the City has installed new lighting on previously unlit segments of the Community Path Extension to deliver a safer and more comfortable experience for people using the path after dark!
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Welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social little girl!
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social little girl!
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Somerville Completes Installation of Community Path Lighting Improvements - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/14/s...
Somerville Completes Installation of Community Path Lighting Improvements - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Just in time for the darkest days of the winter, the City of Somerville has finished its installation of new lighting along its Community Path, a segment of the Mass. Central Rail Trail. Lighting alon...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Somerville Completes Installation of Community Path Lighting Improvements - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/14/s...
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"We joke that there are 365 days of the year, and the last day of picking is day 365," Cape Cod cranberry farmer James Ross told WBUR. "Then day one of next year starts."
How cranberries go from Mass. bogs to your Thanksgiving plate
Each year, Massachusetts’ cranberry farmers grow and harvest roughly 200 million pounds of cranberries. Here’s a glimpse at their yearlong effort to bring their crop to your plate in time for Thanksgiving.
wbur.fm
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"We joke that there are 365 days of the year, and the last day of picking is day 365," Cape Cod cranberry farmer James Ross told WBUR. "Then day one of next year starts."
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I like these sidewalk-level bike lanes that also have separation from pedestrian space on the sidewalk with pretty materials like cobblestone and/or trees.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I like these sidewalk-level bike lanes that also have separation from pedestrian space on the sidewalk with pretty materials like cobblestone and/or trees.
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People in my "progressive" neighborhood NIMBY'd a *senior affordable housing development* into reducing its units from 71 to 41. Just an absolute moral travesty. (Rogerson/Beaufort project in JP)
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
People in my "progressive" neighborhood NIMBY'd a *senior affordable housing development* into reducing its units from 71 to 41. Just an absolute moral travesty. (Rogerson/Beaufort project in JP)
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The Nova Scotia Christmas tree is officially on its way to the oldest public park in America! Thank you from Boston to our northerly neighbors for well over a century of friendship & care.
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The Nova Scotia Christmas tree is officially on its way to the oldest public park in America! Thank you from Boston to our northerly neighbors for well over a century of friendship & care.
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Checking out Halifax Transit—same buses as in Boston!
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Checking out Halifax Transit—same buses as in Boston!
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In the 1990s in San Francisco, I remember when the familiar sound of foghorns on the bay ceased to be necessary for maritime navigation.
People immediately yelled at the city government demanding that it install a fake foghorn to preserve the ambience.
People immediately yelled at the city government demanding that it install a fake foghorn to preserve the ambience.
I don't doubt this for a second and once you understand this, you will understand a lot about people
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In the 1990s in San Francisco, I remember when the familiar sound of foghorns on the bay ceased to be necessary for maritime navigation.
People immediately yelled at the city government demanding that it install a fake foghorn to preserve the ambience.
People immediately yelled at the city government demanding that it install a fake foghorn to preserve the ambience.
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"Rich folks live on Power Street, but most of us live off Hope.”
Hello! I’m Kenny Uong, and since 2022, I’ve been grateful to call Ward 3 in Providence home. I’m inspired by the people who breathe life and energy into our East Side communities. I’m excited to share that I’m exploring a run... (1/2)
Hello! I’m Kenny Uong, and since 2022, I’ve been grateful to call Ward 3 in Providence home. I’m inspired by the people who breathe life and energy into our East Side communities. I’m excited to share that I’m exploring a run... (1/2)
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"Rich folks live on Power Street, but most of us live off Hope.”
Hello! I’m Kenny Uong, and since 2022, I’ve been grateful to call Ward 3 in Providence home. I’m inspired by the people who breathe life and energy into our East Side communities. I’m excited to share that I’m exploring a run... (1/2)
Hello! I’m Kenny Uong, and since 2022, I’ve been grateful to call Ward 3 in Providence home. I’m inspired by the people who breathe life and energy into our East Side communities. I’m excited to share that I’m exploring a run... (1/2)
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This has flown under the radar bit, but this is great news and long overdue by the Massachusetts legislature.
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This has flown under the radar bit, but this is great news and long overdue by the Massachusetts legislature.
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
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It’s not even “papers please” anymore…
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
‘This is kidnapping — plain and simple’: ICE arrests 9 employees at Allston car wash
The employees were detained Tuesday morning before they could present their documents, according to the car wash’s manager.
www.boston.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
It’s not even “papers please” anymore…
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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The hierarchy of controls in this article is excellent!
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The hierarchy of controls in this article is excellent!
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A modest study confirms anecdotal evidence that drivers have no idea what to do with HAWK / PHB signals at pedestrian crossings ... and that the do dangerous shit like accelerating to get through -exactly- when a pedestrian is likely to be rushing to make the signal.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
www.umass.edu/news/article...
Crosswalk Confusion: UMass Amherst Researchers Find Massachusetts Drivers Flummoxed by Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons | UMass Amherst
Among other findings, the researchers also discovered that nearly a quarter of drivers run through red lights at the beacons.
www.umass.edu
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A modest study confirms anecdotal evidence that drivers have no idea what to do with HAWK / PHB signals at pedestrian crossings ... and that the do dangerous shit like accelerating to get through -exactly- when a pedestrian is likely to be rushing to make the signal.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
www.umass.edu/news/article...
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This is so fucking egregious that I'm going to stop sharing MassLive articles—whether or not they're AI slop—until they meaningfully address this.
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is so fucking egregious that I'm going to stop sharing MassLive articles—whether or not they're AI slop—until they meaningfully address this.
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Massachusetts needs to pass the Safe Communities Act so that we can limit such blatant police collaboration with ICE.
We can't stop everything ICE is doing, but our state and local law enforcement should no the making their jobs easier. #mapoli
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
We can't stop everything ICE is doing, but our state and local law enforcement should no the making their jobs easier. #mapoli
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Massachusetts needs to pass the Safe Communities Act so that we can limit such blatant police collaboration with ICE.
We can't stop everything ICE is doing, but our state and local law enforcement should no the making their jobs easier. #mapoli
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
We can't stop everything ICE is doing, but our state and local law enforcement should no the making their jobs easier. #mapoli
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot
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This morning at 11am, corner of Hathorn and Broadway in Somerville MA. 3 ICE vehicles idling on nearby corners. I was following two ICE cars that were cruising around the neighborhood.
This person was just walking down the sidewalk when two ICE vehicles stopped and officers jumped out to stop him.
This person was just walking down the sidewalk when two ICE vehicles stopped and officers jumped out to stop him.
September 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This morning at 11am, corner of Hathorn and Broadway in Somerville MA. 3 ICE vehicles idling on nearby corners. I was following two ICE cars that were cruising around the neighborhood.
This person was just walking down the sidewalk when two ICE vehicles stopped and officers jumped out to stop him.
This person was just walking down the sidewalk when two ICE vehicles stopped and officers jumped out to stop him.
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Getting your annual Flu and COVID vaccines can help protect you and your loved ones from getting sick during peak respiratory illness season.
September 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Getting your annual Flu and COVID vaccines can help protect you and your loved ones from getting sick during peak respiratory illness season.
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Co-worker 1: So, how about that election?
Co-worker 2: Minerva.
Me: Crime
Both, nodding in unison: Crime
Co-worker 2: Minerva.
Me: Crime
Both, nodding in unison: Crime
September 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Co-worker 1: So, how about that election?
Co-worker 2: Minerva.
Me: Crime
Both, nodding in unison: Crime
Co-worker 2: Minerva.
Me: Crime
Both, nodding in unison: Crime
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Lyft In Negotiations With Region’s Cities and Towns to Renew @ridebluebikes.bsky.social Operating Contract -
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Lyft In Negotiations With Region's Cities and Towns to Renew Bluebikes Operating Contract - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The municipal owners of the Bluebikes bikesharing system are in negotiations to renew a contract with Lyft to continue operating the day-to-day operations of the system for the next five years. Lyft c...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Lyft In Negotiations With Region’s Cities and Towns to Renew @ridebluebikes.bsky.social Operating Contract -
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