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Guest Column: South Station Is Not An Adequate Emergency Shelter
There are numerous other public buildings nearby that offer better adaptability, dignity, and safety for unhoused residents.
March 11, 2026
Guest Column: Enough With the Snow, We Deserve Accessible Sidewalks
When the mega-snowstorm ended on January 26, we were all asked to be patient. Plow crews were working around the clock; in the meantime, we should do our part by clearing the sidewalks and curb cuts along our homes and businesses.
February 10, 2026
Guest Column: Imagine More Forgiving Neighborhoods
Balancing life between Boston’s suburbs and the city has turned into a high stakes obstacle course: miss a train, hit traffic, forget one errand, and your day unravels.
January 26, 2026
Editorial: Bike Lane Haters Keep On Losing
As it turns out, a considerable number of informed voters understand that if we actually want less traffic, we need to design streets that favor more efficient modes of transportation.
November 5, 2025
Guest Column: It’s Time to Make Hyde Park Ave. Safe for Everyone
"A walk to school or the corner store should not feel like a life-or-death decision."
October 14, 2025
Guest Column: Car Enthusiasts Can Be Allies In Transportation Decarbonization
I’m a car guy. But I’m also an advocate for public transportation, bike lanes and safer streets.
July 14, 2025
Column: What Does the Freedom of Movement Really Mean? Reflections from the Youth Bike Summit
While dozens of young people, many of them young people of color, celebrated each others’ accomplishments at the Youth Bike Summit earlier this month, there was also a heaviness at the weekend’s event regarding the growing presence and threat of anti-immigrant policing in communities across the country.
June 13, 2025
Guest Column: Lethal Hyde Park Avenue Needs Changes, Not More Meetings
Editor’s note: Advocates for safer streets in the Boston neighborhood of Hyde Park delivered the following letter to Boston City Hall on Friday. In addition to the 7 co-authors in the byline, 709 Boston residents added their names to the letter, and hundreds of them offered their own personalized notes about safety hazards they’d experienced on Hyde Park Avenue. StreetsblogMASS is republishing the letter with the authors’ permission.
January 24, 2025
Commentary: A Reflection on the Election, and What Comes Next
The last week has been a blur, and I've gone through most of my stages of grief in this situation – muting, blocking, unfollowing, planning to leave the country, checking the House of Representatives races, not eating all day, eating lots of pasta, planning to stay and fight – wait, why should I fight for a place that keeps showing me it won't fight for me again? And now, finally, I find myself at the “writing” stage, hence, this piece.
November 14, 2024
Opinion: Democrats Are Calling Trump and Vance ‘Weird.’ Let’s Do the Same for Car Dependency.
Is it time to make automobility weird again?
August 2, 2024
