And if the new bench means more people sitting, that is a bad thing?

I have literally never put my heat up to 73, that is super high.

Try lowering the thermostat. I keep mine on 63 during the day and 55 at night. I paid $170 in February for a 3 bedroom single family home.

Don’t get why do benches need to be comfortable for people to sleep on? Is that why we have benches? I thought they were for sitting.

No, but I sold that house at the end of 2020. It has not appreciated 50%.

I bought it for 375k, did a DIY renovation and spent 20k, listed for 470k, sold it for 500k. But it was a hoarder house when I bought it, there were dead mice all over the house.

Since I sold it I think it’s worth slightly less. And the person who bought I from me had an insanely low interest rate like 2% with no down payment so they didn’t care they were paying more.

Depends mostly spoon

Yes, there can be delays. What sucks is if you take an earlier train and you don’t have a delay you just get there early.

But yes snow can mess with the trains. Cold temperatures can prevent them from starting too.

I bought a 2 bedroom fixer upper in Hyde Park with 0% down (NACA) in 2019 AMA

The “fares” is mostly the commuter rail too, like free busses would cost almost nothing because there aren’t that many bus fare dollars to give away in the first place.

Biggest waste of money. Why are we spending a billion dollars on fare collection when the trains are not even maintained properly?

I know the MBTA is not a household but the analogy holds that of that if you have a fixed budget you should pay your rent/mortgage before you pay your cable bill.

The T needs to get its deferred maintenance backlog caught up before it even thinks about a luxury like this. And you can’t “chew bubble gum and walk at the same time” if you have a finite ammount of money to spend like the T does.

Lmao there is definitely already multi door boarding now for the green line

Literally north Brookline across from the B line are multiple Brookline neighborhoods of single family mansions like 100 feet from transit. Brookline doesn’t get enough hate for their discriminatory housing.

Until 2024 all towns in commuter rail towns all they have to do to remain compliant is to submit an action plan, they don’t have to actually implement anything.

My town did it it’s a worksheet they fill out. By 2024 they actually have to redone and that’s when you’ll see way more towns out of compliance.

I’m not an architect or have any construction experience so when I said “brick” I meant good looking brick or other material. I see all sorts of new traditional style buildings built in Europe and they look beautiful and look like a part of the neighborhoods they are built in.

All the 5/1’s in Mansfield are a story taller than any other building, and are way more massive too. They stick out like a sore thumb.

I don’t have a car so that won’t work for me

I’m a federal employee and the government pays for my pass.

Also the train I take the 8:09 from Mansfield, the conductor doesn’t check for tickets so you only pay on the way home.

If that was possible we would’ve have done that a century ago. There will never be another Boston anywhere.

Or if they stopped using hardi cement siding, and used an actually good looking exterior like brick.

Also if the buildings weren’t so huge, like they could build two slightly smaller adjacent buildings instead of one monster

I live in Mansfield in a 3 bed 1 bath ranch I bought for 450k last year, my commute is now shorter than when I lived in Boston (Hyde Park).

My commute is under an hour now- 5 min bike to commuter rail, 25 min express train, 15 min walk from south station to govt center

Get AAA, and they have their own RMV services. They have an office in the financial district. I got my license easily, haymarket RMV was a nightmare in comparison.

Lmao Milton gets a ton of airplane noise and it’s not near the airport

If you live in a neighborhood or city/town with multiple options for internet it’s fine.

I lived in Hyde Park and I could get RCN or Verizon FIOS and RCN was cheap it was $29.99 a month.

I live in Mansfield now and we can get xfinity or Verizon. Xfinity was a ripoff, I went with Verizon $39.99 a month for 300mbps up and down.

It’s sucks for people in places with only xfinity which I think is the north end, and Cambridge. No options there.

It’s because asphalt and freezing/thawing don’t mix. Below freezing temperatures wreck asphalt.

In Florida asphalt lasts longer.

No they make charliecards with the commuter rail pass printed on the other side if you order them online.

They are a lot more durable than the paper tickets, using a commuter rail paper pass can get pretty beat up in a month