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Wicked Local Three community meetings and multiple designs later, a number of Davis Square area business and property owners are alleging the city did not engage them at all in the Holland Street and College Avenue mobility improvements project. The project design, which is a hybrid version of a typical street resurfacing project, includes a number of proposals, from bike and bus lanes to new crosswalks and parking changes. The first phase of work is set to begin in 2021, and the second phase in 2022. Several business and property owners were critical of the design, noting concerns about the loss of parking, but some residents believe the project does not go far enough in prioritizing bus and bike infrastructure.
Last week’s storm has created major hassles for pedestrians trying to navigate buried sidewalks, but there’s one silver lining: it’s left thousands of “sneckdowns,” places where snowbanks have narrowed down the roadway and forced cars to slow down considerably (a “snow neckdown”). “The snow is almost like nature’s tracing paper,” Eckerson told the BBC in 2014. “It’s free. You don’t have to do a crazy expensive traffic calming study. It provides a visual cue into how people behave.” In the Boston region, there’s been a flurry of Twitter posts with the #sneckdown hashtag published since last Thursday’s storm:
Wicked Local A few street upgrades are coming to Holland Street and College Avenue near Somerville’s Davis Square. The work is still a year away, but the city has hosted three community meetings to engage residents in decisions about how to improve these streets. On Dec. 9, city staff presented plans to over 100 attendees at the final community meeting, but noted there is still time to submit feedback. At the top of the meeting, Mobility Director Brad Rawson acknowledged the death of Leah Zallman, who was hit and killed by a car turning onto Kidder Avenue from College Avenue in November.
How the pandemic put a grotesque new face on the political normalization of brutality. Illustration by Hokyoung Kim It’s bad. This week marked a record in Covid-19-related deaths, and we are currently seeing an average of 209,864 Covid cases per day. Nearly 300,000 people in the United States have died since the beginning of the pandemic, with worse expected on the horizon. And yet these numbers no longer shock. In fact, Americans seem to have become habituated to them. Habituation is a behavioral term that basically means getting used to it. People learn to filter out input that isn’t essential. If a car alarm is going off—or this year’s ubiquitous ambulance sirens—and there’s nothing you can do about it, you learn to live with the noise, and it fades into the background. It seems like the same thing has happened with Covid deaths. Alarmingheadlines circulated in late May after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that deaths from the virus surpassed the 100,000 mark.