I feel like Philly is to Boston how Boston is to NYC. A very one sided rivalry that one city doesn't really give a shit about.

Depends on what you are looking for. Personally, I'm a fan of the one behind alewife and the cambridgeport one (Tudor). Both dog walkers I've had have preferred going to zero new Washington. Realistically, any park that is appropriately sized and near your house is going to be good as long as there aren't problem dogs there, but that will depend on when exactly you go, so you'll probably just have to scope them out

He has already said he plans to take the T to work "every single day" so he can see firsthand all the problems commuters are dealing with and to "put his money where his mouth is"

Let's focus on making the existing lines work before we start trying to make a low value, high cost high speed rail project happen

More like we would need funding for someone to pay drivers. Seems pretty onerous to put the costs of a massive charitable endeavor directly on the businesses

That's not the problem. It's getting it from the stores to the hungry people. Someone has to organize and staff the charities accepting the food. If there aren't enough people to do that for all the food being given away, food will have nowhere to go

>It will work if they partner with charitable organizations.

What if there isn't enough demand for the leftovers? I can't imagine there's an infrastructure that can just be turned on to accommodate this. It's an absolutely massive amount of food

Based on the opinions of a few of my lawyer friends, lawyers also have a "fuck lawyers" attitude, so I don't think they would mind

Or just someone with a realistic understanding of how fast scooters go (and how fast someone could realistically even drive one on a Boston sidewalk)

If you're going to be shitty and not clean off your roof, at the very very least try to break up the ice sheet so when it launches off on the highway, it launches off in smaller pieces and doesn't kill anyone.

>Not sure why you got the downvotes.

Probably from people that have been harassed by the problem homeless that they would have loved to have already had been removed by transit police

I assumed they meant the part about there being no appetite for them to be there

It's also in a weird slightly out of the way location. The mediocre places are normally at least located somewhere very central so they are still always the "good enough" option to people that are nearby. With their location, they really needed to be a destination

Sure. And if they are renting a place for $5 and it's suddenly worth $5 million, the landlord will do that, but how often is a landlord accidentally under pricing their rental by $600? It's not like units are jumping 30% year over year. If a landlord is willing to kick someone out to charge higher rent, they were already boosting the rent as much as they could get away with each year, so they aren't going to need to do those huge jumps in the first place

No apartment within 2 hours of Boston is $1000. Let's go with a realistic low number and say it's a $2000 a month apartment. If they managed to price it right when they first start renting it out, it's not going to be jumping up more than $200 in a year. If they want to renovate there's only so much they can do in a single year with a tenant actively living in there that will justify more than $200 increase a year also.

Making the rent control limit 10% so it's not really restrictive enough to keep a landlord from renting a place at the same price they would have before rent control in 95% of situations.

I just barely missed what would've been my first new train last night because the two women in front of me insisted on walking as slow as possible shoulder to shoulder down the stairs.

Spoken like someone that has never driven on snow tires.

>Old trains can't stop exactly on their marks.

That's not really an issue, it's more that we have different train sets with different numbers of doors. Also that we have such a backlog of much more important maintenance that it really isn't a priority

Probably because the casinos paid very good money to grease some palms and get to keep all the Superbowl betting money.

The new Sam Adams tap room next to faneuil hall is honestly not bad. Ive always been able to get a seat at the bar upstairs, the space itself is pretty nice, beer is not expensive, and they have about 10 exclusive beers on tap there which are all very well made. Also a great place to practice a completely made up backstory for yourself since the bartenders will always assume you are from out of town.

>BTW, a bot here is likely to send me an email complaining that our beloved MBTA doesn't have "Lines", it has "Branches"… it always sends me that… of course the article itself, and everybody I know, calls them "Lines". Oh well.

The MBTA has lines, the green line has branches. It's not that confusing. Nothing you said required the use of branch. If you talk about the green line as a whole, you say line. If you are talking about a specific branch of the green line (i.e. the B branch), you say branch.

The same places all the other electricity in this state comes from.

Not sure what that had to do with what I said, but okay

Just because they are around doesnt mean they are pulling people over for traffic violations. I watch people very blatantly break the law in front of cops without any repercussions all the time