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Illustration: Lauren Cierzan

Almost daily for five months, this account tweeted that the “fully funded, life-saving” bike lanes it’s named for had not yet been designed. Until, finally, on a day in late April, they had. “I am born,” declared @12SBikeLanes on June 9, its most recent and possibly final tweet. The account failed to reach 100 followers but succeeded in its primary mission: to Twitter-shame into existence the inexplicably stalled Metro project along one of the city’s most bike-conducive corridors. 

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