Your employer will pay the difference if you don't receive enough tips to cover the minimum wage. So in effect, by tipping, you are subsidizing the employer.

We could use some generic condos to bring rents down

This is a response to the design of the pedestrian bridge. For some reason they made no on-ramp from the bike lane near the bridge itself. If you're traveling north, you need to turn onto the sidewalk on Dollar St, otherwise you have to overshoot.

At least between the seekonk and route 10, biking is faster than driving

Still needs less parking! Or at least underground if they're going to have it. Parking garages are not pleasant at street level and really deaden the sidewalk life

Ceremony is fantastic

We really don't get ice here and the streets get plowed and salted very quickly. So winter biking is not bad at all as long as you own a coat and gloves

I live in Federal Hill. I usually walk or use the rental e-bikes floating around. I usually travel late at night - the buses aren't generally available past 8pm. I've left my personal bike at the station for a few days before but I wouldn't make a habit of it.

ESM is not cheap

Ye Eastside Marketplace will never have the $1.99 chicken from Trader Joes