Recent comments in /f/massachusetts

three-ple t1_jdcsr20 wrote

Chicken and egg. If you always make it a requirement to "have everything ready at once", you'll never get anywhere. No single policy or law is going to get it all done at once.

Same argument could be said about parking.

"Why do we need more parking at the commuter rail station? It's not fully most days already?"

You have to start somewhere and then work on the other pieces. The housing/zoning law is a start. I'm all for legislation/policy that makes the MBTA more effective across the network. Let's see it! Is there anything in the works now?

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NutMegSmileyMe t1_jdcsemy wrote

South Hadley, Granby, Hadley, Holyoke (there's good areas) ...pretty much Western Mass because it's less expensive than the rest of Mass but you can find really good deals anywhere in this state. The people, for the most part, are nice. You will come across some unsavory folks, but I think you'll encounter that anywhere go.

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mrlolloran t1_jdcrj50 wrote

Jesus Fucking Christ! (Yes I think the situation calls for it to be spelled all the way out)

They’re lucky nobody has come in there with a gun saying shit like you got 20 minutes or they’re in foster care! I don’t even have kids and the empathetic shiver that just went down my spine was insane. Very sorry you went through that. How can they even say they care about the kids when they do that?

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dannikilljoy t1_jdcqi4n wrote

Oh the base idea is smart, I'm just hung up on the unreliability of the MBTA and the lack of any parking infrastructure in the NIMBY towns that actually host commuter rail stops.

Like the point of adding these denser zones seems to be to enable shorter commutes, but if the closest commuter rail station doesn't have enough parking to make commuting to it viable for those who live too far to walk or bike, all this does is increase the number of cars heading into the city.

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tldr; higher density requirements good, but need to mandate infrastructure improvements to support increased density first

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weareeverywhereee t1_jdco13w wrote

FYI this course is garbage. I got 3 speeding tickets in a certain time so i had to automaticallly take this…Lowell connector is just one speed trap. It’s eight hours of the most basic shit ever, and beware to be appalled by your classmates. 90% of my class had multiple DUIs and hadn’t driven in like 10-15 years it was a joke.

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