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I believe this is the commonly accepted answer in the field.

Diversity in the age of housing stock is one of the bedrock principles Jane Jacobs lays out in Death and Life for a stable and successful street/neighborhood/city. That is how you build a successful mixed income community organically.

Agreed, and I want to emphasize that a meaningful, though by no means a majority, of the people I deliver instacart to are elderly/disabled and genuinely derive extreme benefit from the availability of the service. I think a fee exemption for someone who would qualify for a handicap placard...

Yeah but that's not a fair comparison because We Are Not India

I think this is part of it, as well as an instinctual "well if this would work, then we would have done it by now, and since we haven't surely there must be a reason", with the assumption being that that reason is merit/practicality based as opposed to a political one tied up in the particular...

I cannot overstate how much the idea that we need to innovate our way out of our transportation problems rather than just adopt international best practices dominates institutional culture. I don’t think it’s that way in terms of professional staff, mind you, but the decision makers…the boards...

I don’t think that’s the same problem

100%. Our region continues to suffer from so many people wanting to live and work here, while we continue to spend our tax dollars as if we were some third rate region with a low enough population to justify auto-centricity.

The MPO recently did an exploratory study into this and while all of the Powers That Be are privately very enthusiastic I think it has no chance of being implemented this decade. Best case scenario, a pilot of dynamic pricing on the pike. Things are slowly moving in that direction. Here’s what...

From the conversations I’ve had this varies between the type of delivery. DoorDash/UberEats, very much so. Rideshare there is certainly customer pressure to just “let me out here” and one can picture the frustration that would be expressed towards a driver circling looking for a legal spot when...

From the Globe on Sunday: I signed up to drive for DoorDash. Now I know why food delivery causes traffic chaos. The author's intervention recommendations are fairly unimaginative: As mentioned earlier in the thread, I'm working on a study right now looking at best practices for preventing...

Broad range of updates and links: MassDOT is holding a public workshop and site walk today for the Quincy Route 3A/Hancock Street Transportation Improvements Study. Some context on this corridor, for the five year period between 2016-2020 (the most recent data that's been certified by MassDOT...

I don’t think anyone has done that whole cloth but it’s certainly being included as part of it. I’ve referenced here a few times how Quincy included the large parcel that was just breaking ground on the MBTA’s new bus garage for example.

If there’s not money for radical intervention in Eastern Massachusetts’ most dangerous corridor then we need systemic reassessment of transportation funding. If rt. 16, Somerville-Revere, were MBTA track it would’ve been shut down a long time ago for safety.

Today from the Globe's editorial board: White Stadium Plan Deserves Support It's nice to FINALLY see some attention on what I've been saying from the start; that soccer and track & field athletes have not been given any consideration by the media/critics. They vastly outnumber the (declining)...

Not only is the state as a whole growing, it’s with looking at the county data. The growth of Nantucket’s and Martha’s Vineyard’s populations would seem to run counter to the idea that the rich are fleeing. The only areas that are shrinking are the rural parts of the state (Berkshire and...

Thanks! Just to clarify, these were in-service cars right? Not just moving equipment when they theoretically could have accounted for making sure the cars weren't passing each other at the same time?

Weymouth wants to change water source to MWRA. What this will do to water rates Water rates might get the clicks they need, but of more interest to folks here:

Deeply buried in an article otherwise about a Re-Zoning to Allow a Senior Center:

Had a conversation where a detail I don't believe I've seen addressed before came up about green line reconfiguration. Modern green line cars are 4 inches wider than PCCs and the Tremont Street tunnel is allegedly too narrow for a stretch to facilitate trains safely passing each other in...