How long until the sports betting apps start doing prop bets on the T?

Over / under 15 minutes headway between red line trains from 4PM - 6PM

If I can’t view it in person now, I’m going to assume it’s some combination of illegal, moldy, or not the unit in the pictures

Thank god it’s not the D line

-- signed, Newton

Also the silver line does a little loopty loop around the airport terminals before stopping a mile away

Good luck visitors!

How long would the Salem -> Quincy Adams ride take? 4 hours?

Train access to Blue Hills would be lovely though

For fuuuuuuuuuucks sake

The city doesn’t give a damn about mom and pop restaurants catering to a bunch of suits and skirts on lunch break. Office buildings generate a huge chunk of tax revenue from property tax assessments and take comparatively little for the city to maintain (see: prioritization of the Seaport development) New construction brings in tons of money in the form of tradespeople being employed which means those people will vote for development-friendly governments and the building contractors and unions will contribute funds to the elected officials’ campaigns to keep the gravy train rolling.

If the values of those offices tank because leases aren’t renewed and the buildings end up 50+% vacant, the city is staring down the barrel of a huge funding problem. Then, demand for new square footage vanishes, construction companies have no work, people get laid off, and demand can fall more.

This is not an easy problem to solve and it’s going to get worse before it gets better. The only saving grace is that commercial leases are 5+ year terms in most cases with renewal options, so there’s still some time to fix this problem. Not much, but some.

The cost of conversion usually ends up being more expensive than a teardown and rebuild primarily due to fire code issues. Every bedroom needs 2 forms of egress/ingress so all windows would conceivably need to be converted into windows that open outward. Utilities need to be separately metered and controlled. Electrical outlets need to be reconfigured. Kitchens and bathrooms need to be built in every unit. Soundproof walls need to be put in on every floor. Fire suppression systems need to be reconfigured so that it can activate in every unit. Laundry facilities need to be made available or installed in each unit. The list goes on and on