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BEHIND THE CURVE
Hubway’s low-income program goes regional, but infrastructure’s still inadequate As the bike-sharing industry becomes a multibillion-dollar race across the country, cycling options for Bostonians are getting more affordable and more competitive. In Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, and Somerville, Hubway reigns due to exclusive contracts with those cities. The publicly owned and privately operated service, which was […]
BOYS ON THE SIDE
Strictly Prohibited buttons designed by Alex Kittle | Photo by C. Shardae Jobson JP’s guy-free film night is the perfect post-Weinstein outpost “Women watch movies, right?” Kristen Bonstein asks that question in feigned shock as she and Alex Kittle, the co-founders of Strictly Brohibited, and I discuss representation of women in film. Such conversations are […]
JAMMED UP
Is Boston cycle infrastructure getting better faster than congestion gets worse? Matt bikes daily. He says that one of those days last summer, while biking past the Harvard Coop in Cambridge, he saw a car with an Uber sign parked in the bike lane. When he began to steer around the Uber, the car almost […]
STILL STANDING
Photo by Brynne Quinlan The enduring stories of the statues that inhabit Davis Square I’ve been hung up on these statues for most of my life. I grew up in Davis Square. I have brief, early memories of the giant holes that became subway stations, as viewed from a stroller. The statues were installed just […]