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SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 16, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image courtesy of pxshare.com. Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain.

 

Transportation is a subject I address frequently in my columns. But, as is often the case in journalism, it’s usually necessary to write about it piecemeal given various editorial constraints. So I might cover flooding ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: accident, Alphabet, Apparent Horizon, bicycle, bike, Bird Rides, boat, bus, car, Climate Change, Column, development, ecology, electric, Environment, global warming, golf cart, Google, Health, Housing, Jason Pramas, Jump Bikes, Lime, Lyft, monorail, motorcycle, municipal, news, planning, policy, Politics, prevention, public, robot, safety, scooter, Spin, train, transportation, Uber, urban, vehicle sharing

MORE FUN, LESS STRESS: THE ANNUAL REPAINTING OF MARK ALSTON-FOLLANSBEE’S ART CAR

Written by GREG COOK Posted June 13, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

“It was a 1993, I think. I loved that car. It got to be 276,000 miles and the air conditioning went out, and when I took it to my guy who’d kept it running for years he said all the hoses had disintegrated because of old age.”

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Alston-Follansbee, Art, car, paint, Somerville Homeless Coalition

PINCH MINI!

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 24, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Lulz

Boston’s Alternative to Punch Buggy

 

So you’re tooling around town on a summer evening with nothing to do, but you’re sick of playing Punch Buggy—the ancient game where you shout “PUNCH BUGGY” and the color of any Volkswagen Beetle you see… followed by a (mock) punch to whatever part ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Lulz Tagged With: auto, Beetle, BMW, Boston, bug, car, fun, game, humor, lulz, Massachusetts, Mini, pinch, punch buggy, usa, Volkswagen

COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: HOT ENOUGH TO FRY AN EGG

Written by ERIC BOEKER Posted July 24, 2016 Filed Under: Comics

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: car, comic strip, comics, death, disapproving girlfriends, eric boeker, geek, horror, horror art, horror comedy, horror comic, hot, hot car, humor, kale, laugh, Laugh Cartoon Comics, Night of the Living Dead, Police, punk rock, shakespeare, sunday, Sunday Comics, sunday comics project, sundaycomic, undead, walking dead, webcomic, weird, Zombie, zombie art, Zombie Comedy, zombie comic, zombie webcomic

WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? CAR TROUBLES

Written by PATT KELLEY Posted June 14, 2015 Filed Under: Comics

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: car, guns n roses, Patt Kelley, slash, tire, What's for Breakfast

ON THE LEND: AN ON-DEMAND TOOL-RENTAL SERVICE RISES IN SOMERVILLE

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted February 18, 2015 Filed Under: LIFESTYLE

The new “tool library” is membership-based, and for 50 dollars a year you can borrow up to seven tools for a week, and renew them as needed.

Filed Under: LIFESTYLE Tagged With: bicycle, car, dewalt, dina gjertsen, donate, drill, ladder, motorcycle, new england grassroots environment fund, on-demand, parts and crafts, power tools, repair, tool rental

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