hahaha, much better than running into them changing at the gym.

Wasn't gonna down vote you until you whined about being down voted. There are kits for insulating windows. Get the plastic wrap looking stuff and then layer with blankets over the whole window frame. If there's any visible gaps plug them as best as you can. Also see what you can do about the heat you can usually (but not always) adjust radiators and vents. You can also try one of those tea light ceramic heaters, I've never tried one but I have some old school candle lanterns for camping and they can kick off some heat

People think of commuter rail riders as being affluent because the commuter rail schedule is built to service white collar working hours.

They’re not designed for the hospitality or service industry, or healthcare workers working 2nd or 3rd shifts.

I sort of don’t get what you’re saying about pricing being a barrier. If $13/round trip is too expensive, what does their commute currently look like?

Are they currently driving and parking downtown for less than that?

Most everything is open all year. Less Halloweeny stuff outside of Autumn but you'll find plenty to do. Dress warm.

I was just trying to make a direct connection between alewife and Forest Hills.

People don't enjoy routinely taking money from their friends. People enjoy wagering real life currency on unknown outcomes and enjoy the risk, its really as simple as that. It really isn't the governments role to regulate what consenting adults can do with their money.

So you agree, and show up calling me names. Makes sense.

I noticed in recent months that it’s become increasingly difficult to deal with Amazon order issues. I returned items from 2 separate orders to one of their drop offs and never received a refund for one order. Their customer service insisted I was refunded for everything and when I filed a dispute with my credit card, I received a message from Amazon saying they would take the amount from my credit card on file. I ended up removing all saved cards from my account and eventually won the dispute.

Long story to say that perhaps you should just dispute the charges on your card before filing a police report.

Chicago averages 2,500 shootings a year

Sure. But it won't help much if they don't actually convert it to regional rail. People don't use it outside commuting because the service is limited. And commuters usually aren't worried about cost, given most companies provide subsidies and it will always be cheaper than driving.

At this stage, fare reductions are only capturing the (I anticipate) relatively small population of commuters comparing commuter service cost with driving to or taking the subway.

And for that small boost, you risk exacerbating existing budget shortfalls and, perhaps the only thing worse, drawing the Sauron's eye of the legislative budget hawks.

Plug for TransitMatters and their regional rail modernization plan: https://transitmatters.org/mcr

Why would you be worried?

It's legal. It's no different than running into your boss at a liquor store or having a drink at a bar. It's only awkward if you two make it awkward, but, ultimately, you're both human beings who do things like have a beer now and then or take edibles or whatever.

Who cares? Don't make a thing out of it.

No do your best to act like it never happened and you should be ok. However next time you should document it so you have dirt on her if she ever does you dirty

I can't believe they are still in business

11,000 people were stabbed in London….. 11000!!!!!

Apparently not. If people who take the train to work find it uncomfortable, whether the trip there or the trip home, they won't ride it. It's better for the transit system to have those foxboroers paying $20 a day then have the 1A people taking up space on the commuter rail when they otherwise could have taken other forms of transit with the same dollars, not taking money out of the system.

MA had a tax refund last year. Some of this doesn’t require more taxes.

If I need it there when it says it's going to be there, and 20/30/40/50/60 minutes goes by until it shows up...you want to convince me that THAT is reliable transportation?

If a Train is 25 minutes late for an 8PM platform time, that Train didn't show up AT 8, it's late as hell. It DID NOT SHOW WHEN IT WAS SUPPOSED TO. At that point I'm looking at alternate modes of transportation because I'm trying not to lose my job.

You can shove that "...spreading lies" s@#t right up your a##. People have LOST THEIR JOBS because they depended on the T to be remotely functional and remotely punctual and those people were WRONG to assume so.

Charleston is not in the top 65 cities in the country. North Charleston is but they aren’t the same city. Springfield Ma, Hartford Ct and Bridgeport Ct are in the top 65 as well. It’s very easy to get guns in Mass and connecticut

I'm no corporate boot licker but don't get it twisted this absolutely would be creating more housing. Market rate is never going to be logical or fair, it's just a reflection of how abundant supply is in comparison to demand. Unless there is some sort of tennant cooperative movement that can get people organized and accumulate the capital needed to break ground and push through NIMBY resistance, corporate developers are the next best thing. No point in arguing about ownership of something that never gets built in the first place.

I hate nimbyism

Thanks. Didn’t realize how the train worked

They wouldn’t be able to set prices so high if there weren’t so many people willing to pay that much… precisely because NIMBYs have been preventing adequate housing for decades.

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I hope so.. another great spot for sure.

I think GLX is still there - at least North of Lechmere. It does a weird turn towards Cambridge Crossing, which I think is useless since Lechmere is already basically serving that area well enough. I believe they took over the Lowell Line ROW for that, totally unnecessarily because you'd probably still want at least a single track Lowell Line to serve points north of Woburn on this map.

It does an interesting branch at North Station too, which there's some historic precedence for - the Orange Line used to do that same thing back in the early 1900s. I believe it was elevated though; not sure if this map assumes that or tunnels.

I don’t know why this is so hard for people to grasp.

I swear people think that these developers/landlords just pull numbers out of their asses.