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Agreed, and that's exactly what I'd do. Though I imagine that it wouldn't take too long for ignorant drivers to start hassling cyclists about how we have our own lane for turning now and that left-turn lanes are for cars. I mean, I'd still tell him he can blow it out his ass, but I could see it...

Don't forget Liberty Mutual. Their revenues are bigger than the two you listed, combined, and is by far the biggest MA company listed on the Fortune 500.

Re: 691 Mass Ave Those rooms look of half-decent size. How much are condos going for here?

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos MBTA chief to become new transportation secretary Too bad. Davey was starting to shake things up a bit around the T. Hopefully he'll choose his successor wisely and will still have some indirect influence over T decisions in his new role.

Halifax is a great little town. It's only about 250,000 people (many of whom live across Halifax Harbour in Dartmouth), so it's very compact and it has a pretty good bus system. You could almost look at it like a less grittier, whiter version of Providence. The two are very similar in many...

Helmets: I believe BIXI Montréal initially trialled loaning out helmets and the idea was universally panned. Even with disinfecting techniques, you'll have a hard time convincing a large percentage of the population that the helmet is clean. Also, anecdotally, my helmet can get rather skunky...

It is real wood, albeit a veneer so that the lights behind can shine through. They did experiment with some kind of lighting sequence for a while but I don't know what happened to that. I used to work in Terminal E and get off in Terminal A because it's faster to walk than take the shuttle bus...

Actually, all the terminals ARE linked, with the exception of C to E. Terminal A and E have such a great link because they were able to construct it along the side of the parking garage, which was newly built at the time. Furthermore, the American Airlines side of Terminal B has forever had a...

Yeah, politics plays a role. Also, there needs to be a buffer zone to runways so that if a plane overshoots the runway by a little bit, they're not stuck in the grass or in a ditch (or, in Logan's case, the drink). The idea being that if something goes wrong during the landing (the plane floats...

Finally! After the false start back in '98 or so with American Airlines, this route is finally going to get off the ground. Though I would comment that this is going to be JAL's FIRST 787 route. In addition, Tokyo-Boston is exactly the kind of route that the 787 was designed for. Long enough to...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Get your MBTA gear starting June 1st! http://www.metro.us/boston/local/article/864650--t-store-prepared-to-launch-online-video

That article isn't exactly clear on the pricing. For the record, at least based on other systems, including Capital Bikeshare, there is no absolutely free 30 minutes. Only the first 30 minutes of each trip (as defined as the distance from where you remove a bike to where you dock it again) taken...

Re: 691 Mass Ave I bet it'll be nice to sit out on one of those balconies on a summer morning, catching some sun.

A bit smaller of a launch that what was originally envisioned, but it's great to finally see this get off the ground. Though, it's interesting that it doesn't start until July. With half the biking season behind them before it even gets off the ground, I hope they don't deem it a failure after...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Brilliant website. Particularly the bit about the Green Line. Oh... and speaking of which...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Another op-ed in the Globe about the dire straits of the T http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/04/08/bostons_success_depends_on_t/?p1=Well_Opinion_links Maybe I'm just cynical, or maybe I'm really late to the party...

I've played around with these numbers as well. Massachusetts having a long time ago adopted and stuck to British style municipalities (small in land area, each with their individual centers). Good or bad, this means that most areas have their unique, firmly entrenched identities. For instance...

It's probably some political favour that Menino owes. Let the guy sit in for the next couple of years til the next election and Meade gets a comfy pension. I mean, it's not like anything is going to get built over the next two and a half years.

I can believe that Chicago does better. That list almost certainly takes into account the metropolitan area, not just the city (Toronto proper is nowhere near as dense as New York). Boston, because of its make up as a metro area that just sort of enveloped existing towns that once upon a time...

Re: Verizon Building Tower Pay... phone? What? What's that? Having taken a few years off from high school and then transferring universities and programs, this past year I found myself in first year courses again with all the wide-eyed, still-wet-behind-the-ears 18 year olds. Yesterday a girl...