Laura

@3deckerlaura.bsky.social

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Housing, street safety, ultra-local politics. Somerville, MA

A DPW truck parked in Davis, partly in a bike lane and partly in the buffer. Crushed flex posts are visible under the truck
A very young tree tied between two large stakes. Each stake has a watering bag, but they are tied to the tree ties so they are hanging in midair rather than resting on the ground in the more usual approach
On CNBC, Ms. Warren said that investors could build “as many apartment houses, as many condo complexes, as many triplexes as they want” but that “homes should be for families, not giant corporations.”
View of a street corner, with a clear sidewalk and a massive berm of snow between the sidewalk and the street
A giant pile of snow, dead center in the middle of the curb cut, making the crosswalk inaccessible to anyone who doesn’t want to climb over it
A sidewalk approaching a street, with a narrow path tramped through the pile of snow to get to the street
Red line arrivals from the T’s website: arriving, 33 minutes away, 37 minutes, 51 minutes
A stack of empty firework boxes - the kind that are almost certainly illegal in MA - stacked next to a public recycling bin
Modular unit being lifted by crane onto an apartment building in progress