The only US nuclear power plant under construction (Vogtle 3 and 4 in Georgia) will cost more than $30 billion for 2234MW and has taken over 13 years to build. Hinkley Point C in the UK will cost £32.7 billion for 3200MW and will take over 11 years to build. Right now it's straight up not a feasible solution unless you can get the costs and time way down.

Solar and wind, even with batteries, are a fraction of the cost.

Waitt's Mount in Malden, a short walk from Oak Grove on the Orange Line.

The Glasgow subway is planning on installing them and they're older than the T. The London tube also has a bunch of them.

There's been a spate of murders in NYC involving people getting pushed in front of subway trains, hence the calls for platform screen doors.

Then make the platform doors 2-3 feet wider than the doors on the train so that if your train is a foot off the door still works. It's not that hard.

EDIT: looks like the ones in London do exactly that.

You can make the doors on the barriers wider than the doors on the train to give you some leeway. There are also vertical barrier doors that don't care about door positions.

Brookline Village on the D Line and Riverway on the E are a very short walk from each other if you need to transfer between D and E (though you do end up having to pay twice)

IIRC the Whopper got rejected by the zoning board despite being a 40B project due to sewage system overload concerns and the "landscape design, open space arrangements and building design of the project are inadequate and pose a threat to public health and safety"

https://www.weston.org/1366/518-South-Avenue

This backwards attitude right here is why our rents are so high and why there's so much displacement. More tall buildings full of residential housing put downwards pressure on housing prices and reduce displacement.

If your lab is in an office park in Lexington or Bedford or much of Waltham, there's no option to get there by transit, especially if you live in another suburb. Those are also not exactly affordable places either. If you want to work there you have to drive in. Whereas the MBTA network is basically designed to bring people into Boston itself, so there are loads of viable transit options that don't clog up the roads.

Most biotech lab work has to be done on-site. That's part of the reason why building commercial lab space is so popular nowadays post-pandemic - while office spaces sit vacant as their employees WFH, bio labs don't face that risk as their tenants can't do that.

The transit options out there in some of the suburbs are basically non-existent, so it'll force people to drive, exacerbating traffic. Boston and Cambridge have much, much better transit access, hence the growth there.

So revenues went up but profit was flat. Which means all the increased revenues went to paying increased cost (such as more expensive electricity generation due to higher LNG prices)

New England is all part of one electric grid, and shares a single grid operator and power market (ISO New England). You can look at individual states' power generation, but a lot of power gets exported between New England states so it doesn't paint an accurate picture (e.g. Vermont's in-state generation is almost 100% renewable (including biomass), but it imports 75% of its power so it ends up being very inaccurate).

Massachusetts also imports about 75% of its electricity from surrounding areas, so looking at just in-state generation doesn't paint an accurate picture either.

Wind and solar today are the cheapest form of electricity.

This price hike is entirely because New England is heavily reliant on imported liquified natural gas, which is much more expensive now due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Europeans are now relying on LNG to make up for lost Russian gas imports, and massively bidding up LNG prices.

It's actually a lot lower than that. In 2021, 46% of the electricity New England used from natural gas, 0.5% from coal, and 0.2% from oil. Another 5% came from burning wood and trash (which counts as "renewable" apparently), and another 4% of electricity was imported from New York and New Brunswick (which have mostly fossil fuel generation). So about 55.7% tops.

Fuck New Hampshire and Maine for blocking the proposed transmission line from Quebec that would've let New England buy cheap Quebecois hydroelectricity for 5¢/kwh. At least NH and ME are going to suffer from significantly higher electricity rates too.

So how much more do you want to pay for groceries?

Also with record low unemployment at some point there just aren't enough workers out there, and crops are going to just rot in the field unless you find more people to do the work. If you just pay people higher wages to try to get people to do the job, then that one extra farm worker is one less cashier, one less cook, or one less cleaner, and now you just moved your labor shortage problems elsewhere.

On the other hand, right side of the train gets you a fantastic view of New York City when you approach and enter the city. In exchange, it's pretty boring for the rest of the ride.