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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 1h

If President Trump allows SNAP to expire, @boston.gov will be ready to help our neighbors.

If you need assistance during this time of intense and entirely preventable need, go to boston.gov/SNAP or call 311.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 1h

You are looking at the cut out for a driveway. Use your brain.

Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 1h

The screenshot I sent you literally has a sidewalk but it is blocked by a parked vehicle..

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 2h

So when will municipalities tell drivers to follow all traffic laws and stop parking on sidewalks, so children don’t have to *gasp* walk in the street

We have sidewalks, they are just used as vehicle storage

It is willfully ignorant to place the responsibility on children, and not mention drivers.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 2h

Hate to break it to you, but kids ARE forced into the streets. If that front lawn had a retaining wall, no stroller will fit through there.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 2h

Drivers DO have responsibility. Legally and safely operating their vehicle. Yet, they are still killing pedestrians every day. On a day where there will be more pedestrians on the streets, it would help to relay that message to drivers, too.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 2h

I attend neighborhood meetings where we discuss traffic calming w/ council and helped push for an all way stop two blocks from my house. I joined a bike group where we advocate for safer streets. I shovel out the middle school bus stop after every storm. I volunteer with my local land trust. ???

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Lena Webb @finitealright.bsky.social · 2h

It's Halloween, kids get to be priority street users for ONE day. Drivers have priority every single day. DRIVERS should be getting the safety lecture about using their multi-ton machines around little kids. And it's not just MA, this backwards messaging is everywhere in the US.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 2h

A licensed driver, 16+ operating a vehicle with brakes, headlights, among various safety features like collision detection, has more responsibility than a young child with a developing brain that may not think twice to run across the street to get the ball they dropped

This is common fucking sense.

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Zork Aficionado @zorkaficionado.bsky.social · 3h

Like I said, link to where they are also reminding drivers to be more careful.
Quite literally NOBODY said anything about "either-or."

Nobody is saying that the reminder is bad. What's bad is that they are not even trying to make the same effort toward drivers.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 3h

No, the substance of the argument is that drivers operating tons of steel are killing pedestrians. If every driver was limited to 20mph in residential neighborhoods, fatalities would considerably drop.

Drivers are a bigger threat to children than anything else and we do nothing to stop it.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 3h

argumentum ad hominem (in Latin means “to the person”)

- an argument where the speaker attacks the character, motive or some other attribute to the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself

CalmKitty @calmkitty.bsky.social · 3h

One day you'll learn to read, and you'll be really mad at how fucking stupid you come off here.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 4h

And here we have a car, going into a stranger’s house. No driver responsibility here, right? If a kid was playing in the front yard, it was their fault for doing so, and the fault of the parents for letting them?

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 4h

Have you stepped outside a vehicle and seen how people drive around this state, and still believe no responsibility falls on the drivers?

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 4h

Yes! Waltham came up with a “transportation master plan” back in 2015 that called for a road diet with bike lanes on Main St, but nothing since. It’s sitting in the wastebasket next to the mayor’s desk, just like the funding for bike racks, moody st pedestrianization, and blue bike resolution.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 4h

My ward councilor has been fighting for 7 years to make a street safer in our neighborhood, but the mayor keeps meddling with the traffic commission, planning and engineering dept to formulate her own “traffic calming plan”

She has no knowledge in street safety or design.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 4h

Exactly. The mayor and police dept recently purchased some 15 flock cameras to install across the city. She keeps denying her knowledge and that she does not keep the records. No where was it in the proposed budget and no councilors knew about it until residents started asking what these things are.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry, I’m referring to some of the replies I’ve had to deal with this morning. I did not mean to direct that towards you at all. It’s beyond frustrating we overlook street safety, until Halloween night, and then we still place the responsibility on pedestrians.

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Saul Blumenthal @saulblum.bsky.social · 5h

The house deserved it for not wearing bright siding and lights, and for darting into the street between parked cars.

Am I doing this right?

CAR INTO LAKEVIEW HOUSE
A two-car collision Thursday around 3:00 p.m. sent a Honda SUV into a house at 186 Lake Street.
One occupant was transported to an area hospital with unknown minor injuries.
Eversource was summoned to evaluate the crash impact on a residential power meter.
Photos: Peter Lobo

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 4h

Idk what state you live in, but MA law says vehicles MUST yield to pedestrians in the street, even if there is no marked crosswalk.

Drivers can slow the fuck down. If a pedestrian gets hit at 20mph they have a 90% chance of survival

That drops to 20% at 40mph.

Safety is a shared responsibility.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 4h

Idk what state you live in, but MA law says vehicles MUST yield to pedestrians in the street, even if there is no marked crosswalk.

Drivers can slow the fuck down. If a pedestrian gets hit at 20mph they have a 90% chance of survival

That drops to 20% at 40mph.

Safety is a shared responsibility.

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 5h

Somehow I’m “unhinged” because I called out a post for no mention of driver safety/behavior; what they got out of it is that I’m promoting kids to dart into the street and take free candy from anywhere

I guess that’s one way to play the victim.

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Saul Blumenthal @saulblum.bsky.social · 5h

Drivers kill over 20 pedestrians a day in the US.

But sure, call it "complaining".

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 5h

You both need help if you think 20+ people dying every day is acceptable because they weren’t walking properly or wearing the right clothes

Drivers operating 4,000 lb climate controlled boxes can follow laws, too

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 5h

You both need help if you think 20+ people dying every day is acceptable because they weren’t walking properly or wearing the right clothes

Drivers operating 4,000 lb climate controlled boxes can follow laws, too

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