A car crash that left two drivers injured July 15 at Cardinal Medeiros Avenue and Binney and Bristol streets has city councillors pleading again for safety measures – the second time in two years at an intersection long known as dangerous. Councillor Quinton Zondervan has lived at the corner of Cardinal Medeiros and Bristol in Wellington-Harrington for 18 years, and has had cause to fear the intersection since a 2014 crash that ended with a car slamming into the front wall of his home.

Porter Square Books will reinstate its writer-in-residence program in February, the store announced last week on Twitter. The bookstore will select two writers – one youth- and one adult-focused – from an applicant pool to write articles for the store’s blog, interact with other authors, participate in store events and use store space to work on their own pieces, store owners said. Writers-in-residence will get a 40 percent discount on store and cafe products, have access to the “Cambridge Edition” office at 25 White St. after 5 p.m. and on weekends (“a quiet space with flat surfaces,” is the only promise), a chance to contribute to staff recommendations and a

Eye-popping examples of income and race inequality were presented last week to neighborhood groups, starting with median income levels of $158,519 for white Cantabrigian households compared with $41,423 for Black households. Poverty rates also depict a wide gap between these two racial groups – almost 20 percent of Black households have incomes below the poverty threshold. That figure for white families is below 5 percent, according to demographic information presented by Clifford Cook, the city’s senior planning information manager, at a Tuesday meeting organized by the city for the groups.

A measure aimed at promoting electric vehicles by increasing access to charging stations, reducing the number of cars in the city by expanding rental services and increasing use of “micro-mobility” transportation such as bicycles, electric bicycles and scooters drew support Tuesday from the Planning Board. On a technicality, it did not get a formal recommendation to the City Council. The Cambridge Transportation Decarbonization and Congestion Mitigation Bill presented by former city councillor Craig Kelley would get positive comments by the board in support of its goals – but was simply not zoning.

The City Council urged Eversource on Monday to place a high-voltage electrical line away from homes. The company’s preferred route would run along Hampshire and Columbia streets, intersecting Windsor Place to cross MBTA commuter rail tracks toward a Somerville substation, though it has an alternative route along rail tracks running parallel to and between Cardinal Medeiros Avenue and Fulkerson Street. In a statement after the meeting, the power company said it was still evaluating routes and “working diligently to be good neighbors” as it worked to meet current and future needs of customers in Cambridge, Somerville, Allston and Brighton.

A farewell party to Harvard Square’s “Pit” on Saturday – officially, Pit-A-Palooza – sparked nostalgia in several ways. “There’s the cheap weed I remember,” a man in the crowd could be heard saying as community members lit up joints. The event brought hundreds to the famed Pit, the area directly surrounding the Harvard Square subway station headhouse that’s due to be removed in a redesign of the brick plaza because of noncompliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Pit, a sunken area built in 1982 for public gatherings, was adopted by the Boston punk scene and other outcasts and unhoused youth as a place to gather and hang out without judgment.

Some form of ban on gas-powered leaf blowers drew support Tuesday from city councillors at a Health and Environment Committee hearing, at which officials and residents shared thoughts on noise and air pollution, safety for landscapers and the pros and cons of battery-powered alternatives – including whether they could handle the amount of leaves dropped each fall in a New England city. There’s no specific proposal for a law banning gas-powered leaf blowers, and councillors agreed that further discussion was needed before action.

Until the end of the month, listeners of the “Greater Boston” podcast can contribute to a crowdfunding campaign to help creators Alexander Danner and Jeff Van Dreason better compensate actors and pay for studio time for their penultimate season. The pair long ago surpassed their original goal of $15,000 and entered stretch-goal territory by offering perks such as stickers, posters, stress balls – a reference to an episode plot point – and spoilers for upcoming episodes. Even experiences are up for grabs, such as the opportunity for a listener to play a cameo role in an episode. One fan claimed an option to buy every offered perk for $1,000 at soon as the campaign began.