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Harmony Boyd

New age retro punk. she/her/they/them

A Copley Square Field Report from Car-Free Boston

A participant’s account of the Boylston bus lane preservation protest. by Harmony Boyd I take public transit to protest, as I do everywhere. First a bus over the Tobin, then a quick jaunt on the Orange Line. It’s transit driver appreciation day, so I make extra sure to

Photo of an intersection in the daytime, there’s overlayed purple text “Rebutting Boston’s Carhead Journalists” in cursive.

Rebutting Boston’s Carhead Journalists

Boston is uniquely unsuitable for automobiles. Our narrow streets are not meant for car traffic, let alone the bigger autos of our time. Cycling infrastructure makes the road safer for all

Scene of a collision. Police officers on motorcycles inside a cordon. There is a damaged blue bike on the pavement.

Florida woman on blue bike killed after colliding with truck

On the evening of June the 7th, a woman from Florida, 55 years of age, was killed cycling after colliding with a truck. Both vehicles were turning right going eastbound off Mt. Auburn in Cambridge. It’s a senseless tragedy made only more so by how avoidable it all was.