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Alcatraz was dope. Also, best views of the city.

The actual stops available seem great to me. You hit a lot of the good areas on the south shore but I think the layout of it overall is a bit messy with some lines being ridiculously long or winding.

Eat so many rolls you pop. Then stuff more in your purse. And every pocket. They get shipped to other restaurants in the city and they’re legendary.

I’m sure they could get knives or bats or chains.

This is good because you get the High-school plus the corporate stuff and then also where alot of people live

Of course a six story residential building is better than what's there now, but when you compare this project to what would go up in a city taking steps to cope with a housing crisis by building more, it's not much. How many residential buildings are 10 stories or more in that entire Union Square area? Two or three? Union Square isn't Sudbury. Amenities, colleges, transit, music venues, jobs, and nice places to eat are all really close to there. Some developers in Cambridge were asked by the city to add height. Why isn't the same thing happening in Boston?

Two thirds of the state lack any form of inter city public transit. It's a regressive tax on people who can't afford the luxury of living in a commuter rail town. Many of whom have already been forced past 495 or into New Hampshire by gentrification and a complete failure to build housing.

Even the commuter rail system within the 1A/1 fare zones is a mess. A lot of people who live near those stations work outside of the standard 9-5 work hours so the Fairmount and Needham lines don't serve a significant percentage of Boston residents.

One problem would be that it ran in the street, not in its own right-of-way, and I don't think that would fly today, but the bigger one, the thing that killed it, is the Newton I-90 interchange. Before the Pike the A branch crossed the railroad tracks on the Washington Street bridge, which carried traffic in both directions. After the Pike, that bridge was one way northbound for cars, but two way for the trolleys. In theory, so long as traffic followed the lights vehicles wouldn't get stuck on the bridge blocking the trains when the southbound trains had the green. In theory.

I have concerns about West Station too, because it's very close to Boston Landing, and having stops super close together slows things down.

Someone else said it was off loading 10,000 tons of Subarus.

I see now. You have no appreciation of what a government is or does. Just so you know denser housing comes with a cost and its needs to be planned. Water, sewage, trash, schools, emergency response... etc. all need to handled in a some kind of planned manner that you do not have a understanding of and I apologize for not realizing how little you understand and wasting both mine and your time.

You added like a million T stops, but still didn't put one between Wellington and Malden Center.

That's too bad. I hope a different 40B project succeeds.

Like House Zoning, Fare Zoning needs an update too.

I do see Wu's point too. You have subway trains that go pretty far outside the city. Route 128 stop in Westwood is Zone 2, so it's $7 one-way. A ~15 min drive up 128 takes you to Riverside in Newton where it's $2.40.

The Fairmount and Needham Lines should be part of the Subway system too but that's another discussion for another time.

Hey, they get 5 new stops!

..out of about 7000...

and they don't even go downtown.

I lived here until I was 6 a mile away from my current apartment until my family moved to Brookline. Hope I’m not gonna die here.

I have the same problem in my building. Basically it’s a 2 family house with separate mailboxes and the USPS for some reason has 3 addresses for it in their systems.

They have 123 Main St, 123 Main St Apt 1 and 123 Main St Apt 2

I think that is the reason I can’t sign up, I’ve also been trying for years

That urban ring is too far out. If you do this you need something closer, otherwise you're still going downtown to do any transfers.

BINGO!

Might also check and see if your neighborhood has a Buy Nothing group on Facebook.

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> Readville and Lynn share one thing in common: They both have MBTA commuter rail stations that are about 9 miles from the downtown Boston terminal.

And because the distance is the same, so are the fares: A one-way trip from Readville to South Station costs $7. Same for Lynn to North Station (normally anyway — at the moment the Lynn station is closed for repairs).

>But the two places differ socioeconomically: In the ZIP code that includes Readville and Hyde Park, the median household income is $81,859, according to the Census. In the city of Lynn, the median income is $64,986, and in the ZIP code of the station itself, the median income’s only $24,207. About 30 percent of households in Lynn and 46 percent in the station’s ZIP code receive food stamps; the number in Readville’s ZIP code is 22 percent.

>And so, in the name of equity, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu submitted legislation this month that would cut fares in … Readville

This is actually hilarious.

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Not really. MBTA has gotten worse than SEPTA but it is better than most transit systems in the USA where it is virtually non-existent.

It should really be considered again with that new West Station development planned nearby!