Evan

@scribblesonnapkins
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Engineer, Public Transit Enthusiast, Concerned Citizen.

Personally : Trying to improve public transit in MA

Professionally : +15 years designing mostly electronics for hearing research.

Press Release: Dorchester packie under new management

https://www.mbta.com/events/2026-03-31/public-meeting-proposed-fy-2027-2031-capital-investment-plan-cip-virtual

Tomorrow there is a virtual meeting and a chance to support ditching battery buses and request the trolley bus instead of the enroute charged garbage. That adds delays in service at stops to charge and the rapid charging will increase waste from all that rapid charging.

#MBTA #BatteryBus #BEB

Public Meeting | Proposed FY 2027 – 2031 Capital Investment Plan (CIP) (Virtual) | Events | MBTA

Official website of the MBTA -- schedules, maps, and fare information for Greater Boston's public transportation system, including subway, commuter rail, bus routes, and boat lines.

A colleague studied at Isfahan University of Technology. He like many was just trying to learn while he was there and spent the bulk of his career after computer modeling safety cages for cars. It was a continuation of his thesis work on finite element analysis.

Not everyone in a school with military ties is connected to weapons.

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/30/iran-universities-mit-weapons-israel/

What Would We All Say If Iran Razed MIT Because of Military-Related Research?

Israel and the U.S. are destroying universities in Iran that have ties to military research, but scores of U.S. and Israeli schools do it.

The Intercept

https://www.mbta.com/events/2026-03-31/public-meeting-proposed-fy-2027-2031-capital-investment-plan-cip-virtual

Tomorrow there is a virtual meeting and a chance to support ditching battery buses and request the trolley bus instead of the enroute charged garbage. That adds delays in service at stops to charge and the rapid charging will increase waste from all that rapid charging.

Public Meeting | Proposed FY 2027 – 2031 Capital Investment Plan (CIP) (Virtual) | Events | MBTA

Official website of the MBTA -- schedules, maps, and fare information for Greater Boston's public transportation system, including subway, commuter rail, bus routes, and boat lines.

#BostonWeekend Sat PROTEST Biggest protest? Biggest protest SO FAR. #NoKings - multiple options - #BostonCommon should be big but lots of standouts more local https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/ #Boston #Protest
No Kings March 28th · No Kings on Mobilize

What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading from small towns to city centers and across every community determined to defend democracy. Our peaceful movement is bigger than ever.

Mobilize
Harry Burton for the Irish Examiner today saying it out loud 🌍

RE: https://mastodon.online/@litteracarolina/116289296091673384

It's a font
It's an emoji
It's the product of a board monk

Former Boston organizer Monica Cannon-Grant ordered to pay $224,000 in federal fraud case

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/03/24/monica-cannon-grant-fraud-case-restitution

News on Bluesky. I guess Mayor Wu has gone on a mass block off and has at minimum unfollowed all of us involved in the transit space.