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That it's one of the deadliest cities in New England with one of the highest poverty rates and a declining population as low as it's been in the last 110 years? Or did you skip over those facts? Hartford = dump. If people aren't going to acknowledge reality how do you ever expect the place to...

I think you might have the wrong city.. https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-hartford-murder-pace-record-year-20210703-5ffsliavb5hdbjxvvmc6wbzlte-story.html https://www.bestplaces.net/crime/city/connecticut/hartford

Baseless racism accusations aside, in my several trips to Hartford (pre-Covid) the downtown was abandoned. Empty storefronts and boarded up buildings galore, even the restaurant in the Civic Center. The mall downtown was half filled mostly with dollar stores and signs warning you that you...

Hartford is a dump, and I don't find any humor in that. I'm old enough to remember when it was flying high back in the mid 80's. But like CT and RI as a whole, there's no reason for businesses to locate there instead of neighboring MA and NY. Connecticut isn't that much cheaper than it's...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/14/metro/ri-commerce-officials-balk-mckees-plan-shift-tidewater-landing-soccer-stadium-funds/ Rhode Island politicians are out of their minds if they make this deal. Pretty soon they'll be paying as much for a soccer stadium for a low level league as they...

I agree completely that it's less egregious than the Buffalo scam, but it's related. Developers go to struggling places and act like they have the taxpayers over a barrel. At 285 condo's paying approximately 300K+ on average you're looking at 100M in revenue, while I read the developer is...

So $64M in fed/state/local funds for 57 affordable units? That seems like....a lot?

The biggest sell here is that a 90 minute commute to downtown cuts off 45 minutes from traveling in by car with no downtown parking fees either. That's a win for phase I. Gets even better for phase II.

The implication that you can commute by car from NB to Boston in less than 90 minutes during rush hour is grade A horseshit. I realize the writer is trying to get cute by not explicitly stating that, but he does state that is the average commuting time by car, while leaving out that's with no...

Lived at 50 Brainerd myself a long time ago and even back in the Stone Ages I thought that parking lot behind CVS was a waste of space. Nice to see it put to good use.

Never trust New Hampshire!

Seems like some poster brought up the "if NH doesn't want to pay for it, why should Mass" argument a few pages ago.... ;)

@ Brattle, you're trying to make an intellectual argument that will resonate with 50 trainspotters and not with the 7m other people in the state. All voters will hear is "we're spending money to give NH train service". Nothing will break through after that. Feel free to try but it's a one way...

I'm always amused by how these transit discussions spend zero time factoring in political reality. On what astral plane are Massachusetts voters going to happily go along with spending their money to run train service to another state? Any elected officials promoting this idea will get...

I think the discussion of paying for other state's transit extensions because it would be a net positive for Mass belongs more in the Crazy Transit Pitches thread and not this one. ;). However if anyone would like to do so perhaps a GoFundMe can be set up for with NH as the beneficiary?

Gotta respectfully disagree here which is why I brought it up in the first place. Mass taxpayers should not pay for NH transit. That's their problem. We should be funding Mass based projects of which we have plenty to choose from. Putting aside the political realities for a second, why...

Service to Nashua and Manchester is New Hampshire's problem so let them pony up. As a Mass taxpayer I'm much happier to see the MBTA prioritize extensions to my fellow Bay State citizens.

No offense but your predictions haven't been too accurate lately. Have any of the projects that you said were dead and buried actually halted work since the pandemic began?

Stop injecting logic into this thread in the place of speculation or suffer the consequences! ;)

You must be a lot of fun at parties! We might want to gather a little more evidence before we declare victory or defeat on the ballpark.