Yeah teachers should just get fucked even more.

Sad to see our new governor, allegedly from the party that supports unions, saying she won’t support this. Do Better Gov Healy!!

And btw, submitting a bill "to start a conversation" is shitty. The legislature has enough to do without wasting time on that bs tactic. Lobby for your idea and get others on board, then submit a bill.

No, the point was that the tolls on the MA Pike were supposed to be removed once the bonds for BUILDING THE MASS PIKE were paid. That never happened and the Turnpike Authority became forever until the legislature had a moment of clarity.

One way to pay for them is fuel taxes, realizing that may not work in the future but it does now. The other way to pay for them would be figuring out how it is per mile road spending in MA is so damn high even those the roads suck. Somehow there are plenty of other states that have both better roads and much less per mile spending. Do they have less density? Maybe but that doesn't explain all of it.

I'll point to the Rt 3 expansion between 128 and NH as a great example. At about the same time, NH expanded and reworked their section north of the border. Even when both sections were quite new, it was clear NH's was better. It was graded better (no undulations) and over the years, it's remained better. I travel that road all the time and the traffic and weather are similar. It's clear MA built their part to a lower standard and this was confirmed by civil eng I knew on the project.

So forgive me if I'm not just going to go along with spending more on roads in MA without question.

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Please go find something a little more constructive to do with your time rather than picking arguments with people on Reddit. You are obviously a very angry person

I'd try the Tobin bridge not the recycling bin if I was inclined to suicide.

But do people fall in and die quite often ??

There was mention in the Globe about cops being called to her home multiple times, including suicide threats.

This honestly sounds like a nothingburger. None of his posts have anything to do with his actual job, they just look terrible, which makes his office look terrible. They told him to cut it out, and he is. Seems pretty much like everything's actually working as intended for a change.

Thanks for proving the point

Ever heard of dumpster diving? It’s a real thing to climb into dumpsters to find thing to keep.

Ah yes, the old "There is 0 need for any police & there are no children in the schools that the teachers on strike are employed at" strategy. Bold.

What about using made up public safety and made up children as bargaining chips in online arguments?

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And haverhill

This is the dumbest, most ridiculous comment I've read today.

You are also aware that the very reason MassDOT was created and created with that restriction on spending was because of the Big Dig, right? How is it besides the point that the laws have been changed after the Big Dig to prevent it from happening again? Today’s conditions were created as a direct result of prior mistakes. How is it besides the point that 20 years later we still need to maintain the highway even though we got rid of the ways that the state was allowed to take that toll money and pay for other projects? It’s the entire point. The state has done a bunch of things to reverse those bad decisions and we still need to pay for the mass pike. Give me a better way to pay for it and I’ll happily share it with the regional planners that work for the state that I know and work with myself.

Those were the days!

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So changing realities in the world are besides the point because people made a decision 60 years ago? That doesn’t even make sense. Please explain to me how a decision 60 years ago make todays conditions besides the point. When you are complaining about todays conditions. Just saying it’s besides the point doesn’t make it so.

The bonds weren’t even paid off until 2017, AFTER MassDOT was created. That’s pretty damn current and relevant. 6 years of extra tolls for maintenance and improvements… I’d say that just like the precipitation data that’s over 60 years old being irrelevant to today, the reasons for the tolls having been started is what’s actually irrelevant, not the needs of maintaining it today.

And while you are explaining to me why I’m wrong and todays conditions are irrelevant, can you propose a better way to fund the maintenance? If all you are doing is just being mad about a 60 year old decision changing but you don’t have a better solution, then why are you complaining? You don’t have a preferred alternative. But if you do have a better alternative, please share it so it can be implemented

I am not anti-union but I personally would never want to be part of a union. I’m capable of negotiating the terms of my employment without collective bargaining. My wife is in a union (higher Ed) and it’s such a headache to get shitty coworkers fired and ambitious coworkers promoted. F that.

Yes I do thanks

don't you mean western part?

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