Shitty Herald is shitty.

It's Manchester-by-the-Sea

Once you get past Worcester, you start to encounter dragons and they ate the trains.

>"...but many of the problems can be traced to a larger philosophy: outsourcing government expertise to a retainer of consultants. “What I’ve heard from consultants, which is surprising because they make so much money off this stuff, is, ‘Agencies don’t know what they want, and we have to figure it out,’ ”.

Nearly a century of this BS. How many "studies" have been done on the BLX to MGH?

I do agree with the premise that transit agencies lack the knowhow because they don't pay enough for it. "Outsourcing" said knowledge to private entities makes the costs skyrocket for said studies too.

Also agree too much public input has plagued America for decades. There's a big ocean between the massive eminent domain of the 50s and today, where hardly anything gets built.

If there is one thing the GOP is good at, it's grifting.

Sounds about right for one of the NIMBYist parts of Boston.

Mike Felger

And even then, there is a whole bunch of asterisks attached to owning property.

Even in the burbs, I can't stand the "I grew up here so I matter more". Nah, you're just one vote guy.

Yeah, I realized after I posted my comment that's exactly something they would demand.

Still in favor of using the stick. Next time Middleborough needs any state aid, too bad.

Cause Waltham hasn't been gentrified enough already.

Again, it's Middleborough. I doubt most of them are driving from there into Boston.

Why so many thought South Coast rail is a boondoggle.

Especially around the Eliot stop on the D.

No surprise there. Middleborough is the biggest red town in southeast MA.

That said, I'm in favor of the State of using the stick to get towns to comply. If they don't want to comply, they can request the MBTA close the station down then.

>Man, I wish there was a better way to solve the housing crisis aside from essentially selling all newly zoned residential land to corporate development/management companies.

You're not gonna find much land left to build SFH neighborhoods in Eastern MA; and if you do, they certainly won't be cheap (million dollar homes on third acre lots). Local developers don't have deep enough pockets to spend 8-figures for the property alone and then the cost to redevelop it either. The alternative is abandoned property.

Did it finally close? I know it's definitely on the chopping block and I hope they turn it into a condo complex.

That's just grandma's car.

Like House Zoning, Fare Zoning needs an update too.

I do see Wu's point too. You have subway trains that go pretty far outside the city. Route 128 stop in Westwood is Zone 2, so it's $7 one-way. A ~15 min drive up 128 takes you to Riverside in Newton where it's $2.40.

The Fairmount and Needham Lines should be part of the Subway system too but that's another discussion for another time.

Biff's casino will be bankrupt soon.

In so many iterations, why don't they ever join up Cleveland Circle and Reservoir?

Read "sizeable toy" and thought of something else.

I feel like a broken record at times but we really need to start building up Worcester and Springfield and not rely on Boston to be the economic engine of the state.

Exactly. I just bought a Volvo and went through Amex's car buying program to find it.

I thought we couldn't bet on college sports in MA?

The lack of a real gayborhood in Boston is gonna kill the scene. South End is about as close as it gets and even, it's meh. Most other big cities have a few blocks where you can hit all the LGBT+ establishments, making them easier to patronize. That isn't the case in Boston.

Luckily I'll be in Disney World 😎