That’s right, in a move that will save the federal government a mere estimated $5 million a year—and as part of an overall overhaul that will, by all trustworthy accounts, deliver more to the haves at the expense of have-nots—the Trump army is removing the tax incentive to cycle to work.
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TACOS ON TOUR
Biking is practical, tacos are practical. Practical people like practical things. Bikes and tacos were made for one another.
THE SOMERVILLE LANE … AND THE LONG ROAD TO A BIKEABLE BEACON STREET
"The Beacon-Hampshire corridor is the single busiest bike corridor in Massachusetts, and that’s why Somerville is building a protected bike like along a stretch of Beacon Street. That’s where the bike lane is raised a few inches off the street and separated from vehicles by a curb."
THE BALLAD OF BIKING IN BOSTON
Dispatches from my daily dance with death en route to work
GETTING TO BIKE
Urban multimodal network needed to make bicycles a viable alternative in the ’burbs
VIDEO DISPATCH: RUSH HOUR CHALLENGE 2017 AFTERPARTY
How fast can you get from Downtown Boston to Davis Square?
VICIOUS CYCLE (DATA EDITION): BOSTON’S UGLIEST INTERSECTIONS FOR CYCLISTS
Despite apparently enthusiastic planning by the City of Boston in a few token places, by certain measures nil has changed in the past four years when it comes to bike safety.
I LIKE BIKE: A COLUMN THAT SOME OF MY FELLOW DRIVERS WILL HATE ME FOR, BUT THAT THEY SHOULD PROBABLY READ ANYWAY
The reaction to my advocacy is often like when ignoramus bigots question why white people would back the Black Lives Matter movement.
INTERSECTIONAL POLITICS (A CRASH-NOT-ACCIDENT REPORT)
When it comes to bike safety and infrastructure in Greater Boston, there’s a dangerous gap between the promises that cities make and the reality where rubber meets the road
HILL STREET BOOZE: WINTER HILL BREWING IS COMING, BLOCKED A STARBUCKS ALONG THE WAY
For a while it appeared that the residential area was about to be infected with yet another Starbucks franchise ... until the landlords decided to give first-time brewpub owners Bert Holdredge and Jeff Rowe a shot at their dream.