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I mean... realistically an electric moped is the best possible delivery vehicle for small deliveries in urban areas, but as we've seen mopeds have made themselves incredibly unpopular though bad behavior in Boston and particularly on Boylston with a wide swath of the population - cyclists...

I only have 2 restaurant recommendations - The Girl & The Goat and Alinea. The Girl & the Goat is reasonably priced ala carte creative plates, Alinea is a 3 star with a tasting menu - though very pricy it was excellent. As Chicago does have a Michelin guide, just about anything off of it will be...

My opinion is the JFK tower being generally good architectural form is the fact the Sudbury echoes it heavily and successfully. I don't even mind the low rise - it all just needs a really good cleaning. My personal Government Center bugbear is Center Plaza. We've talked about all the other...

As seen from 566 Columbus during sunset this evening.

Is it known what NETransit's data sources are? Per the MBTA 's July 25th presentation, the OL is 124 on property and RL is 22, so my inclination is that NE transit is lagging somewhat.

This is my understanding as well. Based on this flowchart I previously posted, which I assume the MBTA will follow a very similar version of, on the airport SL they just need to do the first step - validate the card, with no fare submission. That would allow any downstream fare inspector to see...

To me, a decent part of this is that in all legislatures, the speakers and committee chairs control what comes up to the post for voting- ie, they set the calendar. It's possible to kill a bill by just sitting on it in committee, as discharge petitions rarely succeed, or just by never scheduling...

As I understand it, the current fare gates and FVMs are Scheidt and Bachmann, the legacy vendor - the T signed a contract with them back in 2019 to upgrade the gates and FVMs, paralleling the cubic contract. The 2017 plan was to replace everything all at once - including fare machines and gates...

So... When was the last time NS hiked fares? If it's been a few years, you'd need a relatively larger increase to "catch up" with inflation. Per that article, fares hadn't gone up "since 2020." It'd be quite reasonable to say that cumulative inflation hit at least 8.7% - the actual proposed hike...

I actually didn't get to spend much time this trip outside the Gaylord's convention center - despite not staying there, I was in town for a conference. That said... If you're into cars, especially oddball wacky things, the Lane Motor Museum should be on your list of things to see next time!

I regularly visit DC with a friend from NYC - we meetup on the train - or they visit me in Cambridge, and their insistence on eating ≤1 meal at those specific Tattes is mildly infuriating, so just for me personally I really want them to open at least one location in Brooklyn. But no - generally...

Just because I was curious too, here's what it gave me. For "Boston waterfront in 1900" it was much more into looking at the water than the city, but for "viewed from the harbor" and "cityscape" - yes, anachronistic skyscrapers made it in. There is a beta select and edit/ remove feature though...

Just dropping in a couple of photos from a recent trip to Nashville TN.

You're likely right - it's why I gave it a few prompts because I wanted to see if it was a fluke, but it was generally consistent with the same prompt- as evidenced by the views I was given, it's clearly scraping from common photo spots. And it does worse with general "Boston" than specifics -...

Out of curiosity since I happen to have a work-paid chat gpt account, I decided to give it the prompts "can you give me an image of Boston from the Charles/Harbor?" The two below are literally the first results it gave me off of that prompt... And they're not bad? Especially the second one -...

I don't know how you feel about compound curves, but You may be able to create some more space in that gap if you bend Green and Orange together to the West, shifting N. Station westward, having Orange bend back to the north to create separation for Community College. You could also repeat that...

People Costs. Combination of collective bargaining increases and increases in headcount. Keep in mind that BPS is an urban district that serves a disproportionate number students that need special services - BPS notes that 24% of their students and budget are accounted for by SPED. That's a...

To be fair to the laymen, that image is what the MBTA itself used in announcing the award.

It took me a minute to track this down - I think they only pushed it as a press release and didn't post the full RFP, though I'm still looking. Just IMHO though, this is worth its own thread. The biggest part of this to me, is that they want to move at the figurative speed of light, even by...

... Again, you have seemingly pulled numbers out of your ass at least as far as Boston is concerned. Again, much as the state constitution requires that the state budget be balanced, state law requires balanced municipal budgets. Not addressing the cities in the list I don't know about, but in...