The Jamaica Plains Gazzette has an article about how Forest Hills Station has run out of Bike Charlie Cards. In it, mention is made (in passing) that this cage for 100 bikes cost $4,800,000 (4.8 million!!!!)

http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/node/3733

Is this a mispint? Or an indication of Boston graft on an even more massive scale than usual?

Well, maybe not fun, exactly, but still a fact, at least when it comes to MBTA buses vs. bicycles.

Wicked Local Brookline reports police say they still don't know what caused Tracy Milillo to fall to the ground and die on Sept. 9, but that it was not a collision with a car.

On the southbound side, they start at the Forest Hills T stop, go into Rozzie Square, follow South Street and then just stop at Select Cafe (Birch Street). Northbound, looks like the stripes were put in, but not the bike icons.

Sean Roche reports on and photographs the aftermath of a collision at Beacon Street and St. Thomas More Rd. around 6 tonight. He reports the bicylist was taken to Beth Israel with back pain; the front of the bike was busted.

No more envious sighs when the subject of the Alewife cage comes up, Boston Biker reports. The new storage room opens Sept. 29, with room for up to 100 bikes.

Around 7 a.m. at Melnea Cass Boulevard and Mass. Ave., Boston Police tweet. No word on his condition.

With its wide avenues and actual, dedicated bike lanes. Mike Ball returns from a trip there and is amazed at what you can do with real streets - but also what a little enforcement might do on our non-cow paths:

... I think of the new, narrow bike lanes painted for a short distance on Columbus Avenue here. Eleven days ago, I took it both ways. In that short distance, I counted 22 motor vehicles blocking the lane, 9 one way and 13 back. Of course, there was no enforcement. Bikes had to take the single lane in either direction from cars and trucks to move instead. ...

Wicked Local Brookline reports a woman hit by a car on Sept. 10 at Longwood Avenue has died.