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In its ongoing work to provide alternatives to driving and connect communities by way of accessible public transportation, the MBTA is looking to expand its service by land and sea.

The MBTA and MassDOT are launching the Water Transportation Study, which will be a 12-month project to assess potential new opportunities for the transportation agency’s ferry service connecting communities along the Massachusetts coast to each other and Boston.

Currently, the ferry has six routes that run from Charlestown, Hingham, Hull, Winthrop, East Boston, Lynn, and Quincy into Long Wharf by the Aquarium Blue Line stop and the North End.

A map of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ferry routes, highlighting routes from Boston to Hingham, Hull, and Lynn, with additional seasonal and shuttle services. — The current MBTA Ferry Route Map shows year-round and seasonal ferry services across Boston Harbor, including connections to Hingham, Hull, Lynn, Quincy, and Logan Airport.

Capitalizing on the benefits of ferry travel and how it connects people to downtown Boston, the airport, and the South Shore, the MBTA is looking to see where else ferry routes could potentially expand to.

Possible destinations include other coastal cities and towns like Gloucester, Salem, Chelsea, and Everett.

“They [ferries] are a vital connection that strengthens ties between communities, reduces congestion, and supports sustainable travel,” said outgoing Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt in a September press release.

The study will take place over the course of 12 months, and will assess the past, present, and future of water transportation in the state of Massachusetts.

A slide titled “What We’re Looking At” with bullet points regarding ferry terminal infrastructure, network conditions, and trip activity. A map showing coastal Massachusetts communities is featured on the right. — The focus for the Water Transportation Study includes everything from ferry terminal infrastructure and transportation networks to travel demand, and land use patterns.

Some aims of the study include improvements to current ferry routes and infrastructure as well as new ferry routes, terminals, and facilities, improving the ferry experience for all users, and enhancing multimodal access to the terminal locations.

Additionally, a big priority of the project is to establish a fully accessible water transportation network that meets the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards, advancing equity of access across modes of transportation for all.

At the October 8th Community Meeting, the project team members shared a presentation detailing the study, and answered community questions submitted virtually.

The MBTA also held municipal-specific open houses throughout the Commonwealth last month including Lynn, Quincy, Salem, Gloucester, East Boston, Hingham, Chelsea, Everett, and Winthrop.

Moving forward, community engagement for this project will look like public meetings, both in-person and virtual, a public study website that will consist of relevant project documents, meeting materials, feedback forms, and events from workshops to pop-ups in the communities that the work will impact.

As the project takes off, Secretary Tibbitts-Nutts encourages community participation. The study – and the future of water transportation in Massachusetts – will be shaped by community voices. “We encourage residents, local leaders, and stakeholders to share their ideas.”

As part of its efforts to engage communities and advance equity in transportation, the MBTA has highlighted local participation in various ways.

A group of students and adults pose for a photo on the deck of an MBTA ferry with cloudy skies overhead. — Students and officials aboard the MBTA ferry Frederick Douglass celebrated its new name on September 10th at the Blossom Street Pier.

For example, earlier this year, students in Lynn took part in a contest to rename the Lynn ferry, previously known as the Schoodic Explorer.

In the name of community participation, residents are encouraged to fill out the project’s first survey, which is currently open through Wednesday, November 12.

The MBTA is looking to see how the public uses or would like to use the MBTA’s ferry system to inform and drive the project’s goals and next steps.

The survey is available in English, Spanish (Español), Haitian Creole (Kreyòl Ayisyen), Portuguese (Português) Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt), Traditional Chinese (漢語), and Simplified Chinese (汉语).

For more information:

Project website: www.mbta.com/projects/water-transportation-study
Contact the project team: WaterTransportationStudy@mbta.com

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beatrice_otter

Now that

crossworks authors have been revealed, I can share what I wrote! I wrote a Miss Fisher/Lord Peter crossover!

My first thought was of course that I should do some sort of casefic, but couldn't come up with a case. My second thought was to have Phryne and Mary meet up during the war--Phrynne drove ambulances, Mary was a nurse--but then I realized that that would make major changes to Mary's life, because I could not picture Mary crossing paths with Phryne in any noteworthy way and then living the same aimless post-war life Mary did. I certainly couldn't see her getting involved with either Goyles or Cathcart. And that would be very interesting, but a much longer story than I had the capacity to write. So instead, I had Phryne meet Peter during the war.

Title: the wings of our frail souls
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Fandoms: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (TV)/Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Written for: sinkauli in

crossworks 2025
Betaed by: Lirelyn
Author's note: Canon has Phryne serving in a French women's ambulance unit during the war. I have changed this to the FANY, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, which was a British women's volunteer group, because their general approach to the First World War was very similar to Phryne's approach to life in general. The British Army didn't want them, so they went over anyway and convinced the Belgians and the French to let them drive. They seem to have a long tradition of doing whatever the hell they thought needed doing and ignoring or steamrolling men who got in their way.

At AO3. On Squidgeworld. On Pillowfort. On tumblr.

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It was not, Phryne thought as she steered Josephine through the French countryside, that you could precisely call her job boring. There was a war on, and she was much nearer the front than she told her parents in her infrequent letters home. She was driving an ambulance between the French triage unit and the hospital, avoiding potholes as best she could. The men in the back of her bus moaned or swore at each one she hit. It was important work, one part in the chain that saved as many men as possible from the jaws of death. It was good work, and more meaningful than she'd thought it would be when she'd signed up for the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, desperate for anything that would get her out of London.

It was only that she'd driven this route so often she could do it in her sleep. The only change was the appearance of more potholes and ruts.

Josephine's engine—which had been running roughly—died with a horrible sound.

Phryne swore, fluently and filthily, in French, and popped out to open up Josephine's hood. "Shouldn't have even dared think it was boring." A short bit of poking around confirmed her fears.

( Another FANY ambulance pulled up next to hers—Gertie, by the sound of it. )

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Finished the Chiwetel Ejiofor-narrated audiobook of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, and it turns out I had remembered way less of this book than I'd thought?? The parts that had stuck with me were the descriptions of the labyrinthine House and the world within, as the narrator understood it, and more or less the mystery of ( spoilers ahoy. ) Makes a very good audiobook!

Read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a 1962 novella following the titular Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a political prisoner, through one day of life in a Stalin-era gulag. (Solzhenitsyn himself was a prisoner from 1945 to 1953.) A short but slow read, dense with small, compelling details.

Currently reading The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton, a 1925 novel about the return of a prodigal mother to New York and her now-adult daughter after pulling a reverse Ellen Olenska (leaving her husband and moving to Europe) almost two decades earlier. It's interesting how much WWI looms over this book, so far, especially because I associate Wharton so much more with the Gilded Age than the 1920s, which is when most of her novels were actually published.

Have just started Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream, a memoir about joining a strict Carmelite order of contemplative (read: silent) nuns in the north of England as a recently bereaved twenty-something in 1989 and - per the opening scene - literally fleeing into the night to escape it twelve years later.

muccamukk

IDK if this petition will do anything, but here it is (for Canadians), and I've put an explainer, also. I hope there's more protests soon.

Reject Carney's Billionaire Budget.

Migrant Rights Network Response to Budget 2025.

senmut

AO3 Link | Seductive Distraction (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Labyrinth
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jareth [Labyrinth]
Additional Tags: Drabble, Stealth Crossover
Summary:

Jareth has an interloper in his realm

Seductive Distaction

A grimace touched the Goblin King's lips, before fully settling into a scowl.

"I thought I told you, babies and toddlers only!" he snapped at his closest goblin lieutenant.

"But you said he was pretty and you wanted —" the words were cut off abruptly as Jareth used his riding crop to smack the chair the goblin was on.

"How to head him off before he seduces every denizen of my realm," Jareth mused, watching the handsome man in his uniform handily winning directions from everyone he met.

"Maybe you can seduce him?"

Jareth glowered at the speaker.

"Maybe I shall."

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Jack Harkness

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Poll #33823

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 98

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Which of these books would you most like to see reviewed?

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Red Rising, by Pierce Brown. SF dystopia much beloved by many dudes.
12 (12.2%)

Lone Women, by Victor LaValle. Fantastic cross-genre western/historical/horror/fantasy.
26 (26.5%)

The Lout of Count's Family, by Yu Ryeo-Han. Korean isekai novel.
13 (13.3%)

The Haar, by David Sodergren. Cozy/gory/sweet horror about an old Scottish woman and a sea monster.
24 (24.5%)

The Everlasting, by Alix Harrow. Very unusual Arthurian AU time-travel fantasy.
40 (40.8%)

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones. Fantastic historical horror about a Blackfeet vampire.
27 (27.6%)

Best of all Worlds, by Kenneth Oppel. Another absolutely terrible children's survival book, what the hell.
15 (15.3%)

The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker. Coming of age at the end of the world; Ray Bradbury vibes but girl-centric.
12 (12.2%)

Surviving the Extremes, by Kenneth Kamler. A doctor for people in extreme climates/situations analyzes their effects on the body.
26 (26.5%)

When the Angels Left the Old Country, by Sacha Lamb. A Jewish demon and angel leave the old country; excellent voice, very Jewish.
38 (38.8%)

An Immense World, by Ed Yong. Outstanding nonfiction about how animals sense the world.
35 (35.7%)

Combat Surgeon: On Iwo Jima with the 27th Marines, by James Vedder. What it says on the box.
9 (9.2%)

Slewfoot, by Brom. Illustrated historical dark fantasy set in early American colonization.
6 (6.1%)

Animals, by Geoff Ryman. Animal zombie horror, at once deeply sad and utterly bonkers.
16 (16.3%)

Anyone read any of these?

runpunkrun

an early winter shower
a rice paddy with new stubble
darkens just a bit
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Translation by Jane Reichhold.

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watersword

Realized after my most recent gym session that I'd been misreading the training plan and I have accidentally skipped about half a training session so far, and sessions are going to take longer than I thought. Whoops. The good news is, I also realized that this is a great opportunity to watch Dropout, give that reading on my phone at a 3mph pace is not super comfortable. So fingers crossed I actually like Dimension 20!

I made squash dumplings and banana bread and if I can make myself get off the couch, will bake gâteau invisible and a fresh loaf of bread. How is it possible that I picked up my CSA box on Friday, went to the farmer's market on Saturday, got some groceries Sunday, and yet I still need to buy more ingredients for food? Also I would like a gold star for excavating the frozen bananas, it is really hard to keep weird-shaped things like whole bananas organized neatly, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

yhlee

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floor loom weaving WIP

The weft yarn is my two-ply handspun on an Ashford Traveller: wallaby-merino-cashmere-silk blend from Ixchel.

...warping is indeed 99.99% of the physical work, moreso than with a pin loom or rigid heddle loom! After that, the physical work of weaving (plainweave) is stupidly easy.

Joe is getting the world's jankiest tiny blanket out of this. :) One has to start somewhere!

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https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/10/franklin-hodge-stepping-down-as-bostons-chief-of-streets

https://mass.streetsblog.org/?p=46299

Last Friday, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, the “Chief of Streets” who oversees the City of Boston’s Transportation and Public Works departments, announced that he plans to leave City Hall at the end of the year.

“I am grateful to Mayor Wu for giving me the chance to serve over these past four years,” Franklin-Hodge wrote in an email to his City of Boston colleagues on Friday. “I am proud of the many things our team has accomplished together, and I know that you will continue to do great work in the years ahead.”

Franklin-Hodge joined the administration of Mayor Michelle Wu in January 2022, just a few weeks after she took office. He had previously worked under Mayor Marty Walsh as the city’s chief information officer until 2018, and between his stints at City Hall, he led the Open Mobility Foundation.

Boston Transportation Department Commissioner Nick Gove will be promoted as an Interim Chief of Streets at the end of this month.

Gove joined City Hall in the spring of 2023 after a 15-year career with the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

“Nick is a capable, caring leader and I know the team is in good hands,” wrote Franklin-Hodge.

The post Franklin-Hodge Stepping Down As Boston’s Chief of Streets appeared first on Streetsblog Massachusetts.

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https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/11/10/mondays-headlines-did-their-civic-duty

https://usa.streetsblog.org/?p=284632

Around 80 percent of local transportation referendums passed muster with voters last week.

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kiya

Summarizing some emailed events and today's session.

Dramatis Personae

Izgil, who did not do much because his player was out this session
Celyn, who has complicated class issues
Viepuck, who is very busy causing chaos as usual
Robin, who is doing a lot of engineering lately

When we concluded last session, the party was having something of a vacation in Robin's new demesne of the village of Asineau.

( Things have been pretty chill for a bit! Warmer now. )

Current Mood: sleepy

muccamukk

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mecurtin

As usual I attended and liveblogged Thursday's What's the Plan? Indivisible meeting, and instead of reporting on all of it I'm going to pull out some parts that I think are super important and illuminating. So I guess this is more journalism than just straight liveblogging.

Ezra and Leah said that Tuesday's Blue Wave election results were the best they've seen since they started Indivisible in 2016, victory after victory in states all around the country. What was the difference? The largest peaceful protest in American history 2 1/2 weeks before the election! The organizing and community-building we did to put on #NoKings all across the country, and then the people came out and showed our strength (we have friends everywhere!), that built to these victories.[1]

Looking forward, we *know* that the Regime is going to try to steal the 2026 election. And we know, from talking with experts on authoritarianism and how it plays in other countries is that a hinge point where you have the choice to go full authoritarian or swing back toward democracy is a national election. And the way you swing back is a *massive* popular response.

So #WhatsThePlan for the next year is to build toward that point, because we *know* it's coming.

We redistrict the blue states we can, to counter Texas and other red state gerrymandering. California has shown the way, IL is talking about it, VA now has a chance, we're pushing MD. NJ & NY can't do it this cycle, but we can push them to threaten it.

And now primary season is beginning. Local Indivisible and other groups get together, look hard at your Democratic Reps and Senators, especially the ones in safe Dem seats, and say, is this person actually *fighting* for us? The Democratic Party is incredibly unpopular, less popular than the actual fascists! We need to start building a party that people can believe in, and that is a fight-back party.

The next big #NoKings event will be in the spring (stay tuned!), we'll continue to organize, build community, make sure everyone knows that the regime is planning to steal the election because they know they can't win it fairly. Be the public outrage arm of the fight. Be the force to run up the margins to not just one House seat or 2 or 3, but 10 or 20, too many for them to easily steal. And then if they do try something, we'll have built up the organizational muscle that we can call on a mass mobilization to say No, you can't steal this election, we the people won't put up with it.

You can watch Thursday's What's The Plan? here on YouTube; the transcript is here.

[1] they didn't mention it this time, but when people have talked about the results they've noted support for CA's Prop 50 was notably wide, in many reddish counties as well as the blue ones. In the build-up to #NoKings II Ezra&Leah said the CA protests were all going to be Prop 50 events--and there were #NoKingsII protests all over the state, not just in the blue areas. We have friends everywhere.

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Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (books)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Length: 47,061 words
Creator Links: Flawedamythyst
Theme: Mystery & Suspense, casefic

Summary: Moriarty kidnaps Watson.

Reccer's Notes: Watson is kidnapped by Moriarty. The story cycles between two POVs, Watson's and Holmes'. We follow Holmes as he does everything he can to find Watson, and Watson as he tries his best to survive as a prisoner. I will say Moriarty was actually menacing in this story, not watered down like some portrayals, and there is a lot suspense about if Holmes will be able to rescue Watson in time before something terrible occurs.

Fanwork Links: AO3

petra

Ever wondered how I churn out so much rhyming poetry?

Meet my beloved RhymeZone.com, extensive rhyming dictionary.

Also endorsed by Florence Welch and Seth Meyers, quite recently, in a charming interview.

Current Mood: the rain in spain
Current Music: I sort of hate to ask it, but what's a rhyme for basket?

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Rating: G
Length: 1800
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Sholio on AO3, Sholio's old SGA website
Themes: Mystery and suspense, Genfic, Ghosts

Summary: It gets bloody creepy here at night.

Reccer's Notes: This is an interesting story about Atlantis remembering her dead, and indeed those still living, in a somewhat troubling way. At first it's unclear how it's happening, but gradually John figures out it's just the city, haunted, and haunting them. Nicely creepy.

Fanwork Links: In Heaven and Earth

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