Where do those people who already use it live?

Who will move there when they move out to apartments on top of Braintree?

Wait. That's a net increase in ridership AND a step towards fixing our housing crisis.

Most of these extensions use existing or abandoned row if possible.

Appeasing the Roslindale lobby /s

Saw an update that they were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries

It’s Florida, where all the old angry Massholes go to die. Of course it’s nicer up here!

…by people who already use it. You aren’t solving any problems just relocating them.

Don’t let the fun police find out

Tents on Mass and Cass?

Oh, interesting. So it would drive ridership of the system?

Ya don't say.

We need two or three concentric rings

I think it would be filled by people who already lack a car.

I build cryostats and operate superconducting detectors - I've been handling liquid cryogens for over twenty years.

I've stuck my hand in liquid nitrogen hundreds of times.

The main danger from liquid cryogens is the displacement of oxygen from the area when it flash boils.

While small amounts of liquid will skate around on a vapor barrier (leidenfrost effect on solid surfaces), in volume, the boiling at the interface between water and the liquid will produce some amount of turbulence and mixing that increases heat transfer.

Faster to walk

How come none of you fantasy train weirdos ever consider where existing and former railroad tracks run for your proposals? Obviously any new subway or commuter rail lines would utilize those ROW before bulldozing existing communities or building tunnel at a cost of $3 billion per mile.

You think housing on top of the red line would go empty?

Depends on when you’re on 93 and what direction, but yeah generally speaking the big exits and splits always suck. The 95/93 split in Woburn is almost always horrendous.

Also- can we talk about the drivers weaving in and out of traffic like lunatics late nights and sometimes mornings??? Are they drag racing? It’s insane

It’s not about reducing car dependency, it’s about reducing daily car use for commuting.

Implying that the avg family that owns a suburban single family home and two cars is going to trade all that in for…a condo…just to commute? Come on man.

I've only ever had the oysters and chowder after work Kind of surprised to hear the rest isn't as good.

I’d be more upset with how long it took them to add this obvious revenue stream. We’ve been lapped by neighboring states for years because the state legislature dragged their feet on an extremely popular bill

Have you ever seen LN2 skittering across a floor? It's like that. There wouldn't actually be that much heat transfer from the ocean- the LNG would skate across the surface on a thin layer of vapor.

I used to work in the seaport, and we ran the numbers - it's not enough to destroy building or whatever but anyone standing on the pier is gonna be a popsicle.

Excuse me there tourist, you must not be familiar with the port city of Boston. Nobody here says Beantown. Please enjoy this documentary about our diverse aquatic life.

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Which beantown were you talking about the one that has a pub named after it?

The MBTA is gonna suck for another 20 years, too long of a story to say why.

Walk the 10 minutes, you'll beat the MBTA at least half of the time.

Ugh, I understand the reason we don't get it but this was the number one reason I switched from CR to driving.

In my case, it wasn't so much frequency as the first train not being able to get me to the office in time for a daily 6:00AM. I'd grab the first train of the morning, hit Porter at 5:47 and have no shot at getting to my desk in Kendall by 6:00 (thank you multi-team collaboration and time zones).

Before I had this meeting hit my calendar on the daily I had taken the CR every morning/afternoon. It had the occasional issue, but I didn't find the fare overly excessive, it was less stressful than sitting in traffic, and I got my yearly book count to unprecedented levels - I actually enjoyed the CR.

Of course then there was Covid, a move, and a job change so I wouldn't use it anymore...but an improvement in both frequency and hours would have been most appreciated by me a few years ago.

Take my upvote, fellow old