Quincy Market always feels depressing. I think it holds the record for the most we've paid for a really sad ice cream.

They did an inner ring - it's based on the classic MBTA Urban Ring proposal from the looks of it. It's the Silver Line basically that runs from the Airport to Wellington to Union to Central then to BU / Longwood / Ruggles / etc.

You can see the similarities in the MBTA's proposal here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MBTA_Urban_Ring_map.svg

I want to say they basically copied it. Maybe there's some slight differences I'm not noticing - like the lack of a proper Airport station on their map, vs the T's proposal would actually have one in that little loop de loop.

Or North Station.

Is he bald?

Seriously, when was the last time you asked your doctor for a drug you saw on TV...

I wonder if part of it has to do with being tolerant/"used to" your local water, but I'm often surprised how bad water smells and tastes when I travel outside of the Boston area. In particular, I find that Atlanta's water tastes and smells like chlorine, and Florida's smells like sulphur (and feels super harsh on my hair).

God forbid some development ruin the charm of the beautiful south shore plaza! perish the thought!

also; I cannot handle the fact that they're wanting to charge $2500 for a one bedroom in braintree in the middle of transportation nowhere.

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Have it your way!

Thank you! This is a quick trip but I’ll bear it in mind for the future!

If British delinquents are limited to knives and bats, then so aren’t adults. Why should a responsible adult be denied a firearm because of deadbeat parents who can’t bother to raise their kids properly?

Greater Boston has MWRA water but some local sources too. Cambridge, for example, has its own water supply, so does Winchester and I think Lynn too. MWRA water is probably similar to NYC water: both systems have well kept upcountry reservoirs where the water is clean enough to avoid expensive filtration systems. I've heard only four big municipal water supply systems in the US have been able to meet federal drinking water standards without filtration systems and two of them are MWRA and New York City. When Massachusetts created the Quabbin it acquired plenty of land around the reservoir, now forested watershed land that keeps all sorts of typical contaminants like lawn fertilizer runoff from entering the water. NY's reservoirs don't have as much watershed land and the DEP has had conflicts with farms and towns in the Catskills (where the reservoirs are) over runoff, also sewage treatment systems that discharge effluent into streams that feed the reservoirs. So NY water may be a little less pure but still good enough. Philadelphia, by contrast, takes its water out of the Delaware river, downstream of Trenton, Easton, etc. Yuck.

I will say that rhe GLX has made me realize how fast it can actually go when there aren't tight turns and it doesn't have to wait at lights.

The Alcott (huge new 45 story luxury tower next to North Station) is 99% occupied as of yesterday. And the rent is ridiculous. People want to live here. Badly.

In the early 2000s I got a fried clam (paper) bucket thing. They laid a piece of paper over the top of the bucket, pushed it down only a little bit, and only filled that little bit at the top. So it was way less food than it looked like.

I'm still getting heated thinking about it. Doesn't look like they even sell clams in that container anymore, but their $40 fisherman's platter is criminally small looking.

Yes, the driver could get in trouble with their boss/employer for allowing someone on without paying. Is it likely? Maybe not, but it is definitely possible.

I would trade all of it for the Milton center green line and VFW parkway in chestnut hill on the orange line; I’ve wanted those two connected to the t since I moved here

talk to any progressive in MA about raising their taxes or fees or whatever, and watch them immediately backpedal.

they are for lots of things, but if you suggest they pay more to see those things happen, they are suddenly not for them anymore.

same reason most of them are NIMBY and against housing, in their town or neighborhood. but 100% for it somewhere else.

I love this, great work

Getting to be that time of year to decide whether to resign or find a new rental. It is just so fucking frustrating. I hate renting in Boston.

Depends heavily on your tour guide. We've gone several times and most of the time it was super fun. Last time was a little bit of a letdown because the guide was really struggling. I would still recommend them!

I didn't realize thousands of americans per year were dying by chains...

One of my top favorite museums. So much neat stuff to look at.

I'm sorry, but that's the entire game.

Housing: we'll mostly defer to nimbys, but will give away land to a handful of developers and annoy everyone with ineffective rent control.

Education: we'll keep doing BuildBPS, but we'll call it a Green New Deal and staff it with recent graduates who have no business running a two billion dollar redevelopment project. (Edit: they added today (1/31/23) a new Chief of Capital Planning. I can't tell if she has any construction project management experience; she's former BPS transportation head.)

More education: black lives matter, but we'll skip the part where we adequately resource majority-black schools. Hell, we won't even guarantee the buses will run on time or translators will show up.

Climate: 400 ppm is an existential threat to the city, but you're gonna have to drive to work if you want to be on time.

Police reform: We'll fully fund the police and will not start a significant alternative social services response team. Hell, we won't won't even change the overtime rules that allow hundreds of police to make more each year than the mayor.

(I hope she proves me wrong, since her promises are largely good ones.)

I'd still say that's too far out, if you're in somerville and want to go to allston you'd still be stuck going downtown first. Something like this sounds good to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/5wm9z7/three_years_ago_i_created_a_hypothetical_future_t/