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  1. Jouhou

    New Red and Orange Line Cars

    I really want to know why they have continued to fail so abysmally at meeting their goals. While I think a mistake was made making this deal with a Chinese company based out of a country ours will always have tensions with, the issues are going so far beyond that.
  2. Jouhou

    New Red and Orange Line Cars

    but the orange line is running smoothly and in comparison to my red line experience is probably making it seem even more decrepit than if I didn't have an all-new train comparison to compare it against.
  3. Jouhou

    MIT SoMa Building 2 | 200 Main Street | Kendall Square

    Just... If you look at what's still under construction in boston https://www.commercialedge.com/blog/national-office-report/ , and most of that is lab space, there will be no room for any new commercial builds anytime soon. Although I'm not sure if paused projects like this don't count for...
  4. Jouhou

    MIT SoMa Building 2 | 200 Main Street | Kendall Square

    Is it impossible for these projects to just go to building residential where demand is pretty much guaranteed at this point and is probably in the long run essential to making this density of office and labs viable? Or at least hotel. Why does everything have to be lab/office or no build?
  5. Jouhou

    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Agreed. I thought that was supposed to have been implemented years ago but I guess not.
  6. Jouhou

    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Photos of the crashed trains provided on reddit:
  7. Jouhou

    New Red and Orange Line Cars

    I think no one here knows and the question has been asked, but what is the hold up right now for new red line trainsets? I'm in Cambridge right now, I got to ride one of the new trains earlier today and it was working well... and quietly. There were 2 running today. On the ride back I rode on...
  8. Jouhou

    Boston Easter Eggs

    Ok, so as someone who has never lived in Boston but has always lived 1-2 hours from Boston, I recently found the Potato Monument and that experience really felt like discovering an easter egg.
  9. Jouhou

    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    YOOOOOO. The green line is an absolute disaster right now. I remembered it was bad, not this bad. It took me 45 minutes to get from prudential to park street on the E line. Looking at the time for the next train reminded me of when I rode the last red line train during the snowpocalypse of 2015...
  10. Jouhou

    Portsmouth

    Giving an update on some of the developments in downtown Portsmouth, all pictures taken today 11/29/2024 The old state street saloon building was demolished. This one is cool but it's just more office space. And the cluster of developments in the maplewood-deer street-bridge street area...
  11. Jouhou

    Portsmouth

    As much as I generally agree with making cities pedestrian friendly, Portsmouth already is. Their "traffic calming" measures in recent years have been for the most part excessive and annoying though. We do not have the public transportation necessary to give up cars here. Especially after the...
  12. Jouhou

    Logan Airport Flights and Airlines Discussion

    The staff on the ground having a rough day or what???
  13. Jouhou

    ArchBoston meetup revival?

    Hey guys! I haven't been super active in this community in recent years, just drop in to lurk from time to time. I'm hanging out in Boston December 6-8 for an event on Saturday night, I wanted to spend the rest of that time exploring Boston and meeting new people. I figured the members of this...
  14. Jouhou

    Housing (Supply Crisis & Public Policy)

    As much as it doesn't help the shortage directly, maybe building more hotels would also help reduce the profitability of airbnb... Boston (combined with surrounded communities) has less than half as many hotel rooms as other cities of comparable significance in business and leisure travel. The...
  15. Jouhou

    Housing (Supply Crisis & Public Policy)

    I live in NH (Portsmouth) and I am extremely frustrated - Residents and Businesses pay the property taxes all the same, there's no income tax. Meanwhile, for the past decade we've seen local restaurants close because low wage workers can't afford to live here to take those jobs. People just...
  16. Jouhou

    General Boston Discussion

    Boston is great because it is a living, breathing, changing city. It's both the old and the new. It is important to preserve the best of its history while at the same time allowing progress and change to happen. That is what NIMBYs don't get, if you try to take a city and freeze it in time, it...
  17. Jouhou

    Housing (Supply Crisis & Public Policy)

    I'm so sick of NIMBYs, bad zoning, and the whole approval process. Housing shortage has been extremely bad here for the past decade, NIMBYs still show up to city meetings to kill off any residential proposals but when office space gets offered in the same exact locations no one whines. I don't...
  18. Jouhou

    Boston Nightlife

    NYC is way easier to find something open, at least in manhattan. New Orleans has quite a bit of things open, not just places for alcohol. Las Vegas is 24 hours, even if it's for drunk people mostly. The entirety of Taiwan was ideal for being 24 hours excluding drinking establishments. but most...
  19. Jouhou

    Boston Nightlife

    What's the dining options like in there? I'm interested in the being able to grab something 24 hours a day if I stay there but that doesn't seem so great if the options are underwhelming or extremely overpriced. Once the food court shows up I'm sure it won't be 24 hours, like most of Boston...
  20. Jouhou

    Revere Infill and Small Developments

    I sometimes wonder why we don't see more people with the financial ability invest in a project to fill voids like this that is intended to reach break-even rather than turn a profit. Boston has hometown billionaires who care about their community, I'm sure some of these people can see the void...

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