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You sure about that number?

No populated place in the United States is any longer an internet monopoly. Cape Cod residents can easily get Starlink.

I would say that case being fortunate is not proven.

I think if you were to poll the citizenry, they’d disagree.

Apparently, people will stop wanting to live by the water.

Death to spending multiple hours each week in a commute, death to spending loads of money on a commute, death to paying someone else to take care of my kids, death to not being able to get anything around the house cuz I'm in the office. This is just an aside that I wanted to share, at the...

How difficult would it be to deck over Rte 2? Even just with a park or, where the locals don't mind, some nice mixed used medium density development. (in all fairness, my solution to all our highways is: deck them over or trench them, and then build enough that would make Robert Moses blush...

Whatever is done, it seems that expanding rail access *prior* to considering reducing road access (just as a general rule) is the proper course of action. I get that there’s a general concern about highway overbuild, but I’d say controlled access highways are not the problem. Its uncrossable...

Anyone know what the profitability of the commuter rail looks like, compared to the subway? If the complaint is that it services wealthier communities, then it might follow that there’s more economic benefit to the T itself to improve CR.

Quick question unrelated to current discussion: do any of the plans for the NSRL include utilizing it as a backup for any of the subway lines during maintenance/upgrades?

Yeah, found the idea that Quincy is beholden to commuter rail amusing. Also, neglecting to even mention NSRL is egregious.

I should clarify: entire property. If its a condo, its the person’s entire condo. Not necessarily the entire building.

I’m not sure that is the case. I don’t have the percentage handy, but the overwhelming majority of AirBnB rentals are whole house rentals.

A lot of good discussion. My question about service overall was actually more focused on how far south such a service could go. Not necessarily on whether high-speed or higher speed is appropriate. For example, could the Downeaster make sense as a Portland to Providence route?

So, follow-up: what sort of HSR service (at least as fast as Acela) would make sense for Portland-Boston-Beyond?

If we ever got around to building the NSRL, would it make sense to extend the Acela to north of Boston? If so, how far?

India has denser and poorer populations.

I’m extremely close, myself! Feels good, especially for those of us that locked in back in 2020. I’ve been thinking about the typical NIMBYism against multifamily housing (and I’m not immune, but I’m also trying to save a school from being converted into apartments), and I can’t help but think...

I was thinking about the Central Artery, and a fun alternate history idea came to mind: what if the planners of the 20s-50s had an ounce of foresight and built it underground? The 1950s would be a great time for a project like that, and, while I’m sure it would have been more expensive than the...

in the spirit of a sandbox thread: the entire interstate system (and rt 3 down to the canal) in Massachusetts has been turned into a big-dig style network of tunnels. What do you do with the land freed up?