The commuter rail pricing only sometimes worked when 5-day in person work weeks were the standard. Even then it was often just trading off driving less for less flexibility with cost being a wash.

Now it is a joke just like many of the MBTA's monthly pass options. They made some sense in the before times, but are silly for anyone going in 4 or fewer days a week.

So the commuter rail needs to find a new way to make sense. Dropping prices is one thing, but they also probably need more smaller trains (increased flexibility), and more proactive service for events or something. IDK. I'm not sure how you fix it, but holding the line and just expecting people to be forced into using it more (or even as much as before) is silly.

The developer wants to charge that because that's what the market value for rentals is. The market's value of rentals is set that way because there are more people looking for housing than there are actual units to rent.

Yea this is good but I think it kinda screws Holbrook proper and makes a literal outline around it. I think maybe an Abington line would be good but that might be a lot of extra

> The yellow line seems a bit much, with that much line extension and intersection already, it’s probably better as a few local buses. > >

I think in a world where we actually do all the inner transit projects they've listed (Red, Orange, Green and Blue Line extensions outward via rail / trail ROWs, light rail conversion of the Silver Line, Commuter Rail turned into a proper Purple Line via Electrification and Signal modernization, etc) the yellow line becomes extremely valuable. Someone who lives in Waltham but works in Burlington no longer needs a car at all. They've got access to downtown PLUS the suburbs. And someone in Salem could get to Burlington without a car too. While still having access to downtown, and potentially cutting through via a Blue/Red transfer if they wanted to go to the South Shore.

128 appears to be the routing of the Yellow Line, and it's constantly congested. Being able to take, idk, 20k cars minimum off that roadway and put them onto heavy rail of sorts would be killer. The lost of 2 lanes of motor vehicle traffic would be more than made up for by the reduction in traffic.

> If they just extended the mattapan line and E line to Forest Hills, the city would be much better connected. Orange line out to Readville/West Roxbury would make sense and would be at least a little bit realistic, since there’s already right of way and track down those routes.

A lot of rail ROWs exist for these proposed extensions, so really this isn't too unrealistic. The unrealistic part is funding it all and convincing millions of car owners that transit is actually a good thing for traffic and providing alternatives to driving. It's slowly catching on, but there's enough resistance to make this an uphill battle and not many Governors/State officials will bother with that.

This project would turn some of those parking lots and a couple of single family homes into 495 units of apartments and senior living homes. Here are some of the opponents claims:

"Braintree officials are now set to review the proposal, and Mayor Charles Kokoros has spoken out against the plan.

“It’s an extreme amount of density,” Kokoros said, according to The Patriot Ledger. “We do not see this as favorable to the town.”

Kokoros is concerned that the development would negatively impact Braintree’s roads, water, and sewer systems, the Patriot Ledger reported. 

Resident Justine Huang said that the proposed complex is “not compatible with our neighborhood at all,” according to the Patriot Ledger."

This is the proposed site of the project

Even worse — Creatives at Goodby. They’re a San Francisco team

I'm just the messenger, sorry. MA UI is notoriously known for delays.

So embarrassing imagine living life like this what a fucking loser bahahahha

Such is the case with any job where it is your responsibility to charge someone for a service—but what I'm asking is if anyone knows whether it's more likely than not that they will get in trouble.

If it's unlikely then I don't understand why they even care; I certainly wouldn't, just like how no one cares when the kid at McDonald's asks for water and gets sprite instead

I want Orange line to west Roxbury and roslindale village 💯

No, I do in fact appreciate what the government does. I also just appreciate what the government doesn't do well. I wish that sort of nuance was something that was acceptable these days, but unfortunately we seem to live in a polarized era where things are only good or bad, black or white, and all nuances are lost. Government now is only a thing that is either pure incompetent evil, or faultless and the answer to every solution for most politically active people. Both views are obviously wrong, but we can't seem to admit that anymore because that sounds too much like giving the other side a win. This is why you can't admit that maybe some fixes to enable the private sector might be a part of the solution, and why a conservative is unable to admit that maybe the government also has an important role in enabling solutions.

I do in fact want the government to build on and expand on public services. If an area is growing or wants to grow but can't because of zoning, I want them to expand the public infrastructure to support it. Extremely restrictive zoning that basically forbids densifying an area is not a rational response to a housing crisis, nor is getting the state involved in building more housing when that is something that is easily and vastly more cheaply and efficiently fixed by less restrictive zoning. The government should focus on doing the things that only the government can do effectively, like infrastructure maintenance and improvement to accommodate growth. The much more efficient private sector should be enabled to do the things that only it can do efficiently and effective, like adding to the housing stock. Unfortunately, this is a position of too much nuance in our emotionally charged and polarized political system.

Forest hill to Watertown

They moved their ad account to the agency Goodby which is in California. It’s bizarre to me that they insist on having SFers try and keep this campaign going. The whole Boston beer co is notorious for being a horrible, abusive client and Jim Koch is a nut job though so I don’t think there was an agency left in Boston willing to touch it

This would be amazing !!!!

That's ridiculous, do you know why it's that late?? We have bills to pay and stuff. I also thought the first payment was sent by check and I haven't received the first check yet either?? I feel like everything is so backed up!

Separate terminals, separate lines -> not much point to joining them. They're walking distance anyway, and if we improved bus/bike connections plus gave both the B and C lines dedicated ROWs you wouldn't really care which one you got on.

Dammmmmmnnnnnn

She’s all about “innovative” gimmicks that don’t actually improve anyone’s life

y’all see cumberland farms get a cameo in last of us? 🔥🤝

Hey, if we're being extremely unrealistic, expand commuter rail to Burlington VT via Concord NH

Well I think we agree on that, brother. Respect for life and each other in this world is a lost concept on kids these days.

You’ll see it in late Feb or early March.

Do people really live near the south shore plaza? There’s like a full mile on Granite st of parking lots supporting dead businesses.

They have that included as the inner Silver Line, which appears to be based on the T's own Urban Ring proposal from the mid 2000's. You can spot the similarities with the T's proposal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MBTA_Urban_Ring_map.svg

acab but when I had an incident at South Station, they were all over it.