If there is one thing the GOP is good at, it's grifting.

That would be a shame.

I don’t have a specific person to recommend, but in the immediate term you might benefit from seeing an executive functioning coach. A Google search should help you find someone either in your area or who can see you remotely.

I hope that anytime a republican runs that 600k is foisted on them to pay back first. Remember "nothing is free", right republicans?

Naples is on an inland lake. The sailboats are inherently smaller.

It would have to be a super tall bridge - the water is close to the lower deck of the bridge at high tide, so you would need a bridge tall enough to accommodate the tallest sailboat...

Plus the southern approach just went under 93, so not that much room to build a high bridge from that perspective.

Sure, I am not saying otherwise. But the bridge will need to be replaced with at least a standard bridge at a minimum, and the article and some of the comments here did not seem to be considering that.

I wouldn't put another on or off ramp, just keep it for people going local.

Reminds me of the bank ad billboard on Washington St in Somerville. Looked like the guy was looking through a window and enjoying himself.

You can see the boats from the highway, it's more "weekend warrior" boating. I don't think the bridge could even allow most megayachts to enter (a lot of the boats there are resting on mud at low tide).

Holy shit that’s a great idea.

That would relieve soo much pressure off of other exits on 93NB SE Expressway.

Yeah, tufts is excellent as well. As is brandeis.

Even if that was the case, the existing bridge is classified as a Draw Bridge, of which the USCG has oversight.

May be a bit of a “what came first, the chicken or the egg?” Scenario as to which has to happen first: it’s decertified as a water way and then declassified as a drawbridge or vice versa.

It’s not a bridge that’s specifically to access the club.

It’s a bridge that’s unnecessarily expensive to allow the club to access Mass Bay.

How about an escape room? We did one at Boxaroo few weeks ago and it was so much fun!

They're finally working on the Saugus River Bridge. That drawbridge just enables this tiny little lagoon to access the ocean. Shit is fucking stupid.

Tufts: Am I a joke to you?

I think it does matter "in addition" to the navigable waterway requirements.

I saw something in some of the proposed plans that said something about the original building of the parkway including specific assertions to the yacht club that they would always have access to the harbor from there.

So even if the navigable water restriction was worked out the yacht club would be in a good position to take actions in court that could delay the project for years.

If the removed the Dorchester Yacht club and decertified the navigable waterway designation they could build a cheaper bridge and wouldn't need to pay $100k a year for operators.

The Pleasure Bay at Castle Island is larger and isn't certified as navigable.

You’re missing the point.

The point is you could build a bridge for less than $112M if it didn’t have to open/accommodate boats coming and going, and DYC is responsible for 99.99% of the boats coming and going.

I believe that was their argument, it was once illegal for lawyers to advertise like they do now. The current issue is misleading information as seen in this story: https://instituteforlegalreform.com/blog/the-truth-about-trial-lawyer-ads/

I also just find it incredibly distasteful and if I ever need a lawyer, I’m personally refusing to do business with anyone who has a giant advertising war-chest and appears on billboards. Plastering how much money they claim to get on a billboard is gross and there is always more legal analysis to the story which can’t be explained on a billboard as people drive past going 70MPH. It’s pithy, too simplistic and makes torts appear to be a lottery. It boils our culture down to one thing, the dollar. That it.

The blue box keys are a path to free money.

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People still mail checks. They steal the checks, whitewash them, fill them out for whatever number and launder the proceeds.

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It's so bad that USPS actually says don't even use the blue boxes anymore and drop mail off at an actual post office. The blue boxes might as well not even be locked, so many are just opened and robbed.

And yet...... true.

That seems like a pretty long, straight stretch of road. Wouldn’t it make sense to use the space to create a taller bridge so that most of the boats can fit underneath it without any sort of mechanism? It would also save future operating costs as well.

The town of Naples, Maine did that when they replaced their swing bridge in the early 2010’s, even though some boats wouldn’t fit.

No. NO. Rebuild the bridge that used to exist between Victory rd in Marina Bay and Victory rd in Dorchester. So the half of the South Shore coming down Southern Artery/Quincy Shore Drive can take that right at the Dunks instead of squeezing on to the Neponset bridge with literally everyone else coming from the south side of the Neponset river.

Check the maps. You can see the streets on both sides of the water line up perfectly. It used to be a trolley line. Make it a bridge, and put another on-ramp to 93 in while you're at it, to take a chunk out of Neponset circle's traffic.

Down the line it would also relieve traffic from the Granite ave bridge and that part of Gallivan. It would improve sooo many commutes.