Recent content by samsongam

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...

I'm with you, aside from the going down together. We 100000% need more housing and our approval/construction process is waaay to slow and brittle against minimal community pushback, but relying purely on incentivizing the private sector is also an issue. Developers and landlords aren't...

In my mind, JFK/Umass is very important for the Urban ring and definitely better than Andrew. - Most importantly, transfers to/from the Old Colony lines. These are quite disconnected from the rest of the system (lack of Orange Line connection at Back Bay that other South Station lines have)...

This was kinda brought up last year in Crazy Transit pitches when we were discussing how to send the SL into Southie (although this was thinking more long-term after an LRT conversion alongside larger implications past South Station). @Riverside brought up the idea of sending branches via Pappas...

I love the forethought of F St. being a wider avenue for a Silver Line route. It will be the most direct way to get to the center of South Boston from Seaport and will hopefully have room for dedicated transit lanes at some point.