Tomorrow is the day Boston's bike aficionados have been waiting for for a while. Bike sharing arrives in the Hub on Tuesday as Hubway is rolled out throughout the city. It's really a simple concept: $5 a day gets you a bike to get you around the city. You can even spend $85 for a year-long membership. TheHubway.com has complete details on how the program works and how it works. There's even a map of the stations.
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- Citing the layoff this week of 23 Lawrence firefighters, the Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts is asking for "a public safety state of emergency" in the city from Gov. Deval Patrick. [Lawrence Eagle Tribune]
- DeLuca's Market on Charles Street in Beacon Hill was damaged in a fire Thursday. The market has been in the same spot for over 100 years. Pictures. [Boston Globe]
Bostonist's inbox has been flooded by press releases from Sam Yoon's campaign office describing Yoon's "GreenPrint" for Boston. It's a series of proposals to add incentives for homeowners, business owners, and drivers to reduce their carbon footprint—by renovating existing buildings and using alternative transportation—that Yoon hopes will become central to his campaign. To kick things off, he proposed legislation in City Council today to add a tax incentive for businesses who are willing to build "green" roofs—roofs with soil and living flora that reduce winter heating requirements and storm runoff and clean the air to boot. It's a big proposal, destined for the front page of the Globe, right?
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