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But they don't log your plate unless you're a violator. Sure, if someone wants to review film for 10 hours looking for plate numbers, they can, but the point is to create friction in the process. The tracking that can be done today certainly could be done 50 years ago, it just took a lot more...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos The MBTA itself says that it will increase headways. If they're saying that, it sure as hell won't decrease them. Cost: $700 million. Less frequent trains Benefit: Less accidents? I agree with your statements about switch problems and disabled...

I oppose eliminating cash lanes on tolls roads for the same reasons. I believe strongly that you should be able to get from "here" to "there" without having your travel logged, recorded, or written down. I wasn't saying congestion pricing = communism, I was saying implementable ≠ desirable

Even if you prove either of those things, both of which are very difficult to prove in the context of a criminal case even with a radar reading or a phone record, you have to prove causation, and you have to further prove that the action rises to criminal negligence. If the police don't check...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos When I put more thought into something, or the facts change, so do my opinions. You said it was $327 million. It's now $700 million. And it just seems really silly to spend that much money on something that will keep operations/headways the same at...

This. x100000. Everyone needs to read those posts until they sink in. People demonize groups that they aren't members of based on outliers, and take mental shortcuts to problem solving. A truck driver hits a bicyclist. Trucks play a huge role in urban manslaughter. They should be banned from...

To be a bit hyperbolic to make my point, Communism was done "successfully" in the Soviet Union. That doesn't mean I want to replicate it here. England has absurdly low civil liberties protections and CCTV cameras everywhere. I don't want that in America, and neither should you. I'm not...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos This is silly. We had two crashes within a few years of each other. It's called a statistical anomaly. Nothing's changed in the system that I know of that would make it the beginning of a trend. The Green Line's been running for a long time without...

The lack of complexity results in significantly less economic efficiency and does not solve traffic problems outside Boston (where 90% state residents live). Also, "setting up a boundary" involves a whole lot of major and minor arterials, collector roads, and local roads. That's a whole lot of...

If it's that simplistic, it's useless. Roads, neighborhoods, and areas around Boston are at various levels of capacity and must be priced differently in order for this to be at all helpful. And if you price the interstates but not the secondary roads and minor arterials you're going to drive...

There are problems with congestion pricing. They have nothing to do with the economic theory of it. This thread contains lots of confused people, on both sides. First off, civil liberties. In order to do it properly, it would need to apply to all roads, not just interstates. Otherwise you're...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos I guess what it comes down to is cost-benefit. My general, uneducated feeling is, you're spending $327m (a lot of money!) and getting... what? I'd like to see them examine some kind of alternatives. It seems like the technology is there to do...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Unless there are massive fatalities, they would never do what was described to the Green Line. Remember, this is a line the functions fine, what, 364 days out of 365, and on the one day it doesn't you get some minor injuries an maybe a single...

As with many traffic control devices, the idea of sharrows is to have a sufficiently obvious implication and meaning that they influence behavior. They aren't regulatory devices (meaning they don't denote any particular law or say you can only travel on x part of the road). The research shows...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Let me be clear here, obviously you know more than I do about trains and transit, and if I'm wrong I won't defend previous statements just for the sake of defending them. That said, what the hell are you talking about? The NTSB has no regulatory or...

Knowing what the term "sharrow" means and being able to answer a written question about it bears no relation whatsoever to driving ability.

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos I got the $1B figure from an article that said according to the FTA per-mile costs are X, there are Y miles to do, so the total cost would be $500m to $1B. I'm not going to address all your other points because you're probably correct. Instead I'll...

Right now the waterfront doesn't have enough sandwich shops to serve all of the patrons that will exist once it's built out. They also don't have enough fitness rooms and roof decks. Should the government forecast the number of fitness rooms, roof decks, and sandwich shops that it believes...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Exactly. It's important that the T has a safety culture, and that they do their best to keep accidents from happening. But at the same time, shit happens. And the thing is, these accidents are so rare (nevermind fatalities, which are even rarer) that...

Re: T construction news Why does this cost $90 million? Seriously, it's mind-boggling. One would think you could renovate a station for maybe $5 million at the most.