Attend meetings on delaying Porter bike lanes, ‘hostile architecture’ and a North Charles clinic
Public meetings this week look at pausing Porter Square bicycle lanes for removal of a concrete median and overhead trolley wires, removing “hostile architecture,” jobs for a Cambridge Green New Deal, a school sexual misconduct policy and zoning face-off over the North Charles drug therapy clinic.
If you’re among the few sticking with masks, city’s public health department is on your side
Cambridge public health officials recommend that people “wear a mask when indoors outside your own home, including on public transportation” – just as before the city eliminated the indoor masking requirement in March and before a judge struck down the federal mask mandate on public transportation Monday and the MBTA followed suit.
Federal Covid aid may go to guaranteed income; Free student transit, Fair Share bill also favored
Orders that could change life significantly for Cambridge’s lower-income residents were approved Monday by city councillors, including a call to put some of the $65 million in federal Covid aid the city is getting into a guaranteed-income program and one that would give all high school students free CharlieCards for bus and subway rides.