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Ahh the internet, where a discussion about zoning goes down a rabbit hole of whether Jewish people or Asians endure more discrimination in America.

Or operated by keolis, so that it can integrate with the commuter rail system?

The real consern in some of these communities is that poorer people in apartments might possibly hurt the average test scores in schools for some of these rich suburbs. However, town officials are never going to admit that.

Homeowners are much more in tune to municipal politics than renters/young adults/new buyers. There's also the issue that hyper local views puts on regional planning.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/23/business/charlie-baker-wants-lots-new-housing-around-mbta-stations-not-so-fast-towns-say/ Good article in the globe on this issue. NIMBYs coming out in force on these requirements, but I do think they're necessary. And I like this law better than 40b as...

The beautiful mountains and lakes helps as well.

You could build a flyover. Would be tough with it being split between two states though. Split brook traffic can get bad during holiday shopping.

Would be even better to connect it with the silver line out to Chelsea imo.

This project feels like an onion article.

I'll nominate south station

40b apartment complexes have popped up all over Boston suburbs. 4-6 story wood frame buildings are relatively cheap to build. In many towns enough have been built where no new 40b developments can be built. There's unmet demand for housing in the burbs imo.

Feel like there's some FOMO after they lost their bid on virgin america a few years back. Virgin America would have been a much more natural fit from a branding and product perspective. Spirit is odd. Though from a route perspective, there's lots of competition between JetBlue and Spirit...

I'll doxx myself. Beverly where I live has multi family zoning next to the commuter rail, and may already be complaint. It's one of the few towns building multifamily housing without state requirements (40b and now this). They're talking about expanding the zone as well. Not sure if it's to...

Lots of farms left in eastern mass are protected from development as a result of the Agricultural Preservation Restriction (APR) program. Basically state funding to pay farms the market value (where a developer to buy to build) to preserve their land for farming or parkland. I think we should...

It's because they're within a half mile of Riverside (rapid transit). Watertown is considered to be just a bus community. But yes I agree from a practical perspective Watertown is a better place to build multifamily housing as the bus routes are very frequent and it's easier to be car free (or...

http://homenewshere.com/middlesex_east/article_95704ce8-b689-11ec-8fa9-8f3bb29c4192.html In unsurprising news, suburban communities are starting to complain about the new requirements.

From May 9th to June 5th no trains between Beverly and Boston.

Blue line is certainly a substitute for Lynn and Swampscott. The rest of the line less so, definitely two months of pain if you're commuting from Beverly or Salem (the bus will take twice as long). Will point out that Salem is the busiest station on the commuter rail outside of...

Most of the Newburyport Rockport line will be shut down for 2 months for construction work. Kinda crazy how they announce stuff like this with only a few days notice.

That would make it more difficult to evade the Massachusetts sales tax 😂