It's an interesting idea, but seems like this would disproportionately affect folks such that only the rich can drive to work while the rest of us are stuck waiting for the T (if it ever shows)
An MBTA commuter rail train collided with a small boat left on the tracks of the Fitchburg commuter rail line between Cambridge and Belmont around 12:15 a.m. early Wednesday morning, Transit Police say.
Photos posted by MBTA Transit Police on social media show the small wooden boat with a gash in its port side at the Porter Square station.
Myself? I wanted to know what kind of boat was involved. The OP article was geofenced, the quote of kindly posted here only says "small wooden boat", but the transit cops OG public statement includes a few photos.
We might prefer public agencies didn't use commercial social media platforms for their public comms but thats larger conversation...
Awesome to see, I'll have add both of them to my list!
Not in Boston, but I had a chance to visit Barr Hill in VT a bit ago and it was fantastic! The cocktails were super inventive, their gin is to die for, and the bartenders were extremely friendly. The food was pretty average, but then again they're on the shortlist for their bar program, not their food.
I am having a hard time understanding what the 2 billion dollars is going towards. It seems like it's just moving a few things around but not adding anything new. It is unclear if the West station train project is included in the 2 billion dollars or an additional cost after the fact.
You know I see these billion-dollar estimates all the time and I just have to call crap. There's no way a fleet of new cars would cost a billion dollars. Let alone 28 billion. As for electrical infrastructure and Subway infrastructure I can see that costing hundreds of millions but there's no way again that it would cost more than one or two billion dollars.
Not sure how they deserve a budget increase since they are consistently more expensive, offer less coverage of space, and are far less reliable than every other public transportation system for a population this size ON THE PLANET.
They aren't a business, they are a service. You have to fund services for them to be effective. The MTBA has been under funded for decades which is why we are here. Funding them is the only way out of this
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