Word: crosswalks
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Other business included a motion to enforce crosswalk ordinances in Cambridge...
...with a Harvard ID can get in anywhere. Wrong. First, who are these Harvard ID-bearers the masters are afraid of? Harvard students? Or is it that mythic unshaven creature of Harvard Square, beer on his breath and bad deeds on his mind, who finds an ID in the crosswalk on Mass. Ave. and jumps at the chance to infiltrate the Harvard system? That is not likely to happen. People don't drop their ID cards on the street all that often. When they do, they know (or can be reminded) to call and report their ID lost...
Whatever the source, I am not sure where I fit in. I still get peeved when a rustic bicycle with a metal basket on the handlebars--undoubtedly a refugee from the French countryside--knocks into me at the crosswalk. Whenever I see a new silver VW Beetle whiz through Mt. Auburn Street, a wave of nostalgia hits me as I long for the days of punchbuggy yellows...
...Monday morning, I was on the phone. I called the Cambridge Public Works department and patiently explained how Harvard students often go to Fresh Pond. I explained how they take the T to Alewife, wait for a green light and use the crosswalk over the Alewife Brook Parkway, walk across the bridge that spans the railroad tracks and then, with the movie theaters in sight, they, ahem, scamper down the hill...
Guevara circulated a petition and sent the signatures of 400 people supporting a crosswalk to the commissioner, according to the Globe. MDC officials told her that the crosswalk couldn't be painted until next fall due to weather and contracting issues, the Globe reported...