id like a red line green line connection that goes to brighton, instead of taking the hour long loop

r/SalemMA put together a wiki for visitors.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SalemMA/wiki/index/

Some places that closed in Dec and/or Jan may have opened back up by late Feb. You will miss the Salem So Sweet Festival that is earlier in Feb.

Public goods should be free at point of sale, if you want to encourage usage, then make them free. Pay the fare out of the city coffers

the filtering effect is real - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119022001048?via%3Dihub

There's also a new study that shows new housing does lead to lower prices in the immediate area:

https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/rest_a_01055/100977/Local-Effects-of-Large-New-Apartment-Buildings-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Unless you have parking included, work somewhere outside of downtown Boston, or carpool, it's almost certainly cheaper to take the commuter rail compared to driving. Regardless, even if it isn't cost effective for you personally, it is for many people who commute into the city a couple days a week but not often enough to need a monthly pass. As for the commuter rail zones, the Newburyport/Rockport line isn't the only one with multiple stops within the same zone.

The data actually shows significantly reduced enrollment in the elementary schools.

Those single ride fares seems fine to me. We should incentivize people that live further away to use it.

The monthly pass costs make no sense though. Someone going to Zone 1 needs to pay only $214, but someone going to Zone 8 needs to pay $388. If the difference in single fare is only 4%, why is the difference in monthly pass a whopping 81%?

Not to mention the other building is all 1/2 bed units. I don't think we'll see many families in these buildings. Of course even if we did expect a lot of families, the project should still be built.

we actually do. someone has to suck at something.

I have kids in the district. The total numbers may be lower but that lower number isn’t reflected in the elementary school that this building is zoned in.

I wonder how the infrastructure use of 500 new permanent residents compares to all-the-people-not-going-to-malls-because-it's-2023 that the infrastructure was originally built for...

Looking at their enrollment numbers, it appears Braintree schools are down about 500 students from their peak in 2018.

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ah thanks, used the wrong search terms before posting

The MBTA should be a loss-leader. It is one of the main reasons the reason the city of Boston and its surrounding boroughs attract so many businesses, young people, etc.

This shit is a Costco chicken. It shouldn't matter if it doesn't turn a profit on its own--the money it brings into the state indirecty cannot be overstated.

Oh for sure it’s a balance. Although “affordable housing” according to the City of Boston is 70% AMI which is completely asinine and puts a big damper on the “inclusionary” policies

It depends what line of work it is.

Some companies still drug test, especially if the person handles sensitive information, or is a federal contractor.

Because it’s not federally legal, it can still be a liability.

Most will die at the hands of racist whites, surely.

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I wonder why we have a housing crisis in Greater Boston? Hmmmm

I go in 2 days a week, so neither option is cost effective for me. I didn’t realize they were in the same zone. There’s only a mile between Lynn and Swampscott, and they were different zones. You’d think they’d both be Zone 2, and Salem as zone 3.

When I took the Providence line, every station was a different zone. No matter the distance between them

Sure, if you ignore the effects of affluent housing turning the surrounding area more affluent, attracting even more affluence and pushing out low-income folks

Well we have inclusionary policies, so all new market rate housing over 9 units brings affordable housing along with it. We also have good evidence that both market rate and affordable housing construction decreases displacement.

Why is it 400 dollars a month for a commuter rail pass? Why do we come on here and panic like 80 year olds any time there’s an announcement about making things affordable??