by Sean Roche | May 9, 2018 | Newton |
Put me in the the-cartoon-is-tone-deaf camp.* But, as important is it is to be on the lookup for gender-stereotyping, the sexism debate obscures the visionary genius in Mark Marderosian’s cartoon. The city ought to sell the police station property. The site is...
by Sean Roche | Apr 24, 2018 | Newton |
This is a house down the street from me. Well-maintained. 2200 s.f. Four bedrooms (one created in the attic). Two baths. Nice, but smallish lot. Near Newton Centre. One million bucks!! And, they cancelled the second of two open houses this weekend, so presumably there...
by Sean Roche | Apr 23, 2018 | Newton |
The sidewalk along northwest corner of the Brookline St./Dedham St. intersection is currently unpassable, due to the large construction project to rebuild the stretch of Dedham St. that includes the Brookline St., Carlson Ave., and Nahanton St. intersections. But,...
by Sean Roche | Mar 20, 2018 | Newton |
Transportation for Massachusetts has a nifty primer on peak-period tolling, which is a form of congestion pricing. I’ve been planning to post on congestion pricing (again). In the meantime, please invest two minutes in the Transportation for Massachusetts...
by Sean Roche | Mar 18, 2018 | Newton |
In livable streets/tactical urbanism circles, a sneckdown is (sorta) naturally occuring traffic calming that demonstrates that a street is wider than it needs to be. A neckdown or curb extension is a traffic calming measure where the curb line is extended into the...
by Sean Roche | Mar 16, 2018 | Newton |
I am, by day, a software product manager. Broadly speaking, product managers are responsible for making research & development investment decisions — build new features, enhance old features, attract new customers, retain existing customers, &c. One...
by Sean Roche | Mar 16, 2018 | Newton |
There is a serious story here about an elected official blocking users on Twitter. There’s also a bit of Twitter drama. And, there’s an important debate about what municipalities can and should be doing to combat global climate change.We start with the Twitter drama.
by Sean Roche | Mar 6, 2018 | Newton |
Here’s a devastating tweet (after the jump): by Sean Roche | Mar 4, 2018 | Newton |
Flowing from the Twitter work of my friend Aaron Naparstek, anti-gun activists are boycotting some of bicycling’s popular brands — Giro, Bell, Camelbak, Copilot, and Blackburn — because they are owned by the same parent company — Vista Outdoor — as assault weapon brands — such as Savage Arms.
by Sean Roche | Mar 4, 2018 | Newton |
Last week, TransitMatters released a sweeping vision for regional rail in the region. Please read it. I’ll wait here. Amazing, right? TransitMatters is a group of transit-obsessed citizens trying to make transit work better for Boston. What they’ve done in...
by Sean Roche | Feb 5, 2018 | Newton |
Newton is refusing to address obvious opportunities to make our streets safer for pedestrians. I discussed this in the context of Adams St. in Nonantum (here, here, and here). A soon-to-be missed opportunity is the upcoming repaving of Chestnut St. from Collins Rd. to... by Sean Roche | Jan 28, 2018 | Newton |
It’s hard not to get excited about the latest designs for Needham St. and Highland Ave. presented in a series of meetings a couple of weeks ago. What’s not to like about grade-separated bike lanes from Winchester St. practically to Rte. 95/128? Not only...