Worcester Urban Goof Salad

celebrating the many flaws of a city that could be great if it wasn’t run by comatose car freak suburbanite losers

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

Today’s pickup trucks are designed to be huge and aggressive to delight the wimps who buy them as vanity objects to intimidate and “own” the roads. It was only a matter of time before one was used in a mass murder (pickups have already killed thousands in “accidents”)

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

Making fun of dumbass pickup truck drivers and laughably bad infrastructure was fun for a while but it’s futile, means nothing. Worcester is progressing and that’s better than most places in this fucked country will ever get. I’ll take it and just shut up now.

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

I started this account after years of anger over the city’s neglect of pedestrians, a city choked by stroads, seeing children killed on our streets. But the city has made undeniable progress recently, I’m stunned to see permanent speed bumps, speed limit reduced to 30mph…

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

Streets seriously so how could we expect them to take a genocide seriously, even symbolically. Waking up to another 4 years of T*ump today reinforces for me that we live in a society ruled by people who want it just the way it is…

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

Big pickup on Lincoln St with a cb antenna, NRA, Marines, freedom = not free stickers…. and a Maura Healey sticker. Average liberal

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

The thing where Worcester repaves a road in August but it takes four more months to paint lines, so drivers just do whatever, line up four abreast in a single lane or drive in oncoming traffic

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

Loving the new pave job at Green Hill Park! No new bike lanes, speed humps or sidewalks, just plush blacktop so drivers can finally blow past this speed limit sign at 30, 40 maybe higher! You want drivers to be able to speed through your premiere city park, that’s good

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

Your Worcester tax dollars going to build a parking lot for a private little league field courtesy of some psycho city councilor and an 18 term state senator who specializes in like giving MRAPs to small town police

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

Even a few years ago I couldn’t imagine something like this sponsored by this city government. Credit where it’s due, change in our lifetime etc

[Oliver is on bsky 🚲🚎🚅 @ojc1]

Huge crowd for @JeffSpeckFAICP park av walk audit!

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

@yennidesroches they all had gator bags, but they looked like honey locusts, probably the hardiest urban tree there is next to tree of heaven

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

They planted trees beside the barren highway. feels like a public safety threat to me

[greg @greg16676935420]

Wow I had no idea they made blue Cybertrucks, that’s pretty awesome

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

@lamacchiarealty work truck breaking a very important law👇

[Tracy O'Connell Novick @TracyNovick]

Hey, @TweetWorcester, any chance we could get some PD tailing school buses for a bit? I just watched two lanes of Southbridge Street traffic blast straight past this stopped school bus.
Glad no kids were crossing.

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

Yes! This is another change like Mill St that exposes how serious Worcester’s driving sickness is. You can’t go the existing 30 limit without a Dodge Ram grill blocking your rear view

[Talk of the Commonwealth @CommonTalkPod]

CAN you drive 25mph in Worcester? Hank tried it the past few weeks as an experiment and says that his slower driving has been received poorly (and angrily) by most of the other motorists in the city.

Should we move forward with a lowering of the statutory speed limit to 25?

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

“So I said to the architect, wanna save a few bucks? Ditch the brick for, I don’t know, baby blue corrugated aluminum? And shrink the size of that loading door.”

[WoooSox (Not the Actual Team!) @WoooSox]

“So I was talking to my buddy Ed. And I said ‘Ed you know what would put the city on the map? Building a minor league baseball stadium!’”

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

@ojc1 Don’t know the name but it’s off green near the old table talk store and bbq place

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

Worcester’s newest bike lane, now open for FREE parking. (not pictured empty lots and parking spots just a few yards away)

[Worcester Urban Goof Salad @Worcestography]

@TracyNovick Thought about it but didn’t in case it triggered police to come

[Oliver is on bsky 🚲🚎🚅 @ojc1]

Omg, it's a 13 year old girl who's been seriously injured on Shrewsbury st. After a 13 year old girl was just killed on Belmont st.

This is just awful. I am *enraged* by the feet dragging of our council.

Just so everyone knows, some are going to performatively beat the drum for more enforcement which we do need, *but we can't have a cop at every corner all the time*.

There are proven evidence-based interventions that can be made like the 25mph limit, traffic calming, intersection daylighting. What we need is for our council to get the f*%& out of the way of our DTM and let them do it (and fund the efforts).