Recent content by samsongam

It's like the worst of both worlds. Routine riders will be disrupted with much worse schedules and fans going to games are having to pay much worse prices. The only lasting transit legacy of this will be a new platform to serve the interests of almost Kraft exclusively. And somehow he only paid...

You're way out of touch with the reality that most young people are experiencing. This isn't the 60's where most white guys could get a single family home and provide for a family on an average income. Most young people I know (even those with established careers) either split costs with a...

I think the value of phase II is that Jackson Square is not nearly as important of a transfer hub as Ruggles when you consider CR, bus, and shuttles. The street is way too wide anyways and I'm all for prioritizing transit and emergency access in places that are straight-forward now before a ton...

A ton of single people who are currently living in 3/4 Bedroom units with roommates would definitely live in a little studio ADU if it's affordable. Then the larger units which are currently taken up would be more available to families. Now the amount of ADUs that will be built across the state...

I was looking forward to taking the train out for a few games but I noped out after seeing how expensive the tickets were. The game tickets are expensive enough. The minimum price of attending this world cup is insane to me. Hopefully there will be some shuttle bus options that are cheaper.

Fantastic evidence to show the reality of public opinion rather than the well-funded propaganda that consistently focuses on the opposition and "controversy" angle as if it's the majority. The Globe and other local establishment news networks will elevate these small groups opinions and insist...

If removing bike lanes will get the bus lanes through, then sure that's an option. But the opposition leadership group is way more focused on the "drawbacks" of the bus lanes than bikes. I really don't see where they are looking to compromise on anything that doesn't lead to retained car lanes...

I'm not sure that the bike lanes are the main issue, this article gives a pretty comprehensive view of the process and opponents points and no mention of bike lanes. The leaders of the opposition are against loss of parking spots and loss of private car lanes, not bikes or even greenery (because...

It won't. It's exactly the sort of status quo, moderate and vapid pandering position that we've seen destroy excitement to vote for the Democratic party (running to stop something rather than for a bold new idea). Bus riders are more likely to be Black or POC (across the country this is true...

I think the disaster is our severe forced shortage of housing and insane unaffordability/inequality. Architecture that is not up to your subjective preference might be a threat to your taste, but the housing crisis is an objective threat to all of us and Boston's well-being. Much bigger fish to...

Louijeune has been the most popular at-large councilor for the past few cycles, she has a good grasp of policy, has had leadership roles in the council and doesn't get caught up in silly issues like many other councilors. If Wu does move on at some point, Ruthzee seems like the next in line to...

Given that consensus is that we need to increase capacity on the Old Colony lines and that it will be incredibly expensive to double track through Quincy and JFK, I wanted to bring back up an idea that got thoroughly shut down on this board when it was brought up a while ago - removing the...

I really don't get what's going on with Wu here. The word "mandate" has been thrown around a lot in other elections around the country, but it's kinda hard to act like that isn't the case here when she was a strong advocate for these projects throughout her first term and her opposition ran so...

Yeah he's proposing income-based tax reductions to renters that will reduce government funding without affecting private landlords (sounds a lot like Section 8). Again, why must we continue to reduce public funding in order to protect private wealthy interests? The private market shouldn't be...

I believe you're referencing the Jonathan Gruber article right? He's comparing the length of time from application to completion in LA (4 years) to Nashville (2 years in a not really comparable city) - "The timeline right now is four to five years. The timeline could be two years. If we want to...