Oh no they are traveling out of city to Everett I’m saying

Raise taxes on gas too!

I mean if I’m already at the casino, I’ll probably place some bets on whatever games are going on while I play other games. It’s not like you have to choose one or the other.

Zooming a little further out, one could theoretically connect Lawrence to Newburyport along the abandoned rail bed that heads east from Bradford Station, with only a minor amount of eminent domain in a couple of spots.

Loveee these kind of maps. Blue line to Marblehead made me LOL, I’d love to see it but know that would never happen. Thanks for sharing and so fun!!

That's really the big thing for me.

I didn't really want to leave Boston when my wife and I moved. But I hated paying $2,300 for a 1 bed, 4th floor walkup.

So we moved to Quincy Center, and eventually Wallaston, where it was kind of the best of both world for a while. Quieter than Boston, cheaper than Boston, but with bars, restaurants, and T access to Boston.

A few months back we finally bought a single family home further down the south shore. Car needed to get anywhere. And when you get there, you need it to go to the next place. It's rare that 2 things we need are close by.

So I welcome these mixed use places.

More young people, which helps drown out the older and more conservative crowd? Love it.

More housing close by, which is also good to have in case we ever fall on tough times and need to downsize? Great.

More things to do on weekends, places to eat, room for local stores? Perfect.

If we can just add more commuter rail stops/more frequent trains, id would really be perfect. But even without that, these projects are a great thing.

Unfortunately, NIMBYs are scared of EVERYTHING.

My town just got a community electric program. We will be paying .06 less per KWH than with Eversource alone (.16 vs .22). The local facebook group is littered with:

"I don't trust this program"

"I'm opting out - why are they forcing this on us?"

"This seems fishy to me."

Meanwhile, the pamphlet we got has all of the answers to their questions right there, and you can opt out at any time.

People are so afraid of change, it kills me.

Maybe you were looking for the Brookline, Newton, or Belmont subreddits?

Pretty good. Although I think your subway lines go too far away from the city. Foxboro, Brockton, Framingham, basically anything outside 128/95 would be better served by high frequency commuter rail with local/express service. I agree with converting the Green Line D branch to an extension of the blue line via a new tunnel past Charles/MGH through the back bay, although I wouldn’t extend it past riverside. I’m also surprised you didn’t restore the A branch to Watertown.

Thanks you! I was looking at the website over the weekend and feeling kinda overwhelmed haha. Looking forward to joining a Saturday hike soon!

Personally, I think Cambridge water tastes so much different than Boston’s and I honestly hate drinking it.

I just want to be able to bet on when the first truck of the season gets storrowed. I don't care about sports!

If the four of us what to go into town from the Concord train, I have to drive there, pay to park.... pay $12 each for round trip tickets: or $48. So it is about $50.

I can park in town on the weekend for $20.

It is a no brainer.

The single fare for 1A->1 is 6.50, for 1A->8 is 12.25 - I don't know where the 4% figure came from but the month pass seems proportionally more expensive

Agreed but at this point it’s like mutually assured destruction. Boss would have to admit they also violated company policy.

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Go to each of your neighbors’ homes. Ask for a cup of sugar. Say you are out of sugar if asked. While there, quickly scan their home for your packages. Worst case, you can’t find your packages but you end up with a few cups of sugar. This will also make your neighbors like you - people oddly like those they feel they’ve helped out.

Report back.

I don't live too far from there and I think they should do it. That area is a wasteland of parking lots. They built the apartments on the hill above Quincy Adams Station and they seem to be full. Why wouldn't these be? It's near restaurants and stores. There's roads in and out. They can "gate off" the neighborhood behind there if they want. And, there will be low income housing mixed in. I wish there was more but it's a start. And, how many people are constantly in this group looking for housing options?

At some point we have to accept we are not Europe and we can't just instantly undo 70 years of developing car-centric cities and suburbs. We don't have mixed used block housing and sprawling plazas and parks, we have dying malls and over conjested roadways from everyone being forced to drive 20 minutes just to go shopping or visit a restaurant. If we can revive the malls by building dense housing nearby, we can start to look at expanding public transit since there will be a thriving mall worth visiting as well housing that is condusive to car-free lifestyles. Plus if it attracts white-collar workers and young families that means those people aren't being forced to outbid lower income people and gentrify the existing housing market. The only people who benefit from not building housing are the NIMBYs who want to see their property value go up for no reason other than the fact that they like getting money for doing absolutely nothing (except complain about "neighborhood character" and increased property taxes).

Definitely cheaper and easier than driving in from Swampscott. The cost is worth the less stress from driving. It will be interesting to see if the commuter rail makes and fare and scheduling changes when the Sumner Tunnel shuts down this summer.

What really needs to be done is regional rail, or at the very least more frequent trains on key corridors. While full electrification is required for true regional services, regional rails pilot could be implemented in the interim with more frequent diesel services on key corridors until electrification happens (I believe the previous MBTA control board considered this plan in 2021). A new off-board fare system is crucial to regional rail and really should be considered moving forward

Agreed, but even from a capitalist/center-right perspective, incentivizing business investment in these areas would make a difference as well. NJ has special economic zones with reduced sales and business taxes and that’s taken a bite out of poverty there

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Because there’s a $4 surcharge for getting off at a Zone 1A station. Eliminating that would be a good step forward

Fucking cumbys kehd

Extend the orange line north to reading and south/west to Needham!