YIMBY News for 5/2

[Eric Budd]

Boston’s New Climate Plan Is At Odds With Boston’s New Transportation Policies

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KEYWORD SCORE: 35.06. affordable, bike path, bus route, construction, development, house, housing, parking, parking lot, project, transportation, urban, walk

Boston’s new climate “action plan” calls on the city to reduce car traffic, expand bus lanes to improve transit ridership, and to redesign streets citywide to promote walking, biking, and safer vehicle speeds. But these are all initiatives that have either been cancelled or put on hold since Mayor Wu’s re-election campaign began last year. “Boston is working to transform how people and goods move to build a safer, more connected city,” claims the city’s new climate plan. “By expanding access to reliable and affordable transportation options, redesigning streets to prioritize walking and biking

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ICE Bought a Warehouse in This Small, Conservative Town. Locals Are Fighting Back.

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.47. construction, development, house, income, preservation, project, real estate, rent, supply, urban

A protester holds a sign outside of Roxbury Town Hall at the “End ICE Camps” protest on Feb. 28. (Photo courtesy of No ICE North Jersey Alliance / Project NINJA) *This story **first appeared in Bolts**, a nonprofit newsroom covering the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the local up. It has been republished here with permission.* On Christmas Eve, residents of Roxbury, New Jersey, a township 50 miles west of Manhattan, learned from a *Washington Post* article that the Department of Homeland Security had plans to purchase a vacant warehouse on the outskirts of town and convert

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