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They drove up COL in formerly middle class towns like Needham and Natick by forcing the rich people to look elsewhere.

Think bigger! I hear Logan doesn’t have a lot more room to grow ;)

Ah, yes, the “how do we legally threaten these towns with dissolution if they don’t agree to build more houses” unit.

Just want to update folks that as of 2-3 weeks ago… My car is very happy.

Yup, definitely don’t go there very often. In response, I’d nominate the intersection of Main Street and Medford Street by Tufts pool as being really bad. The whole bike ride from Magoun to my house is sketchy (I get on the community path at Lowell street) but that intersection is probably the...

Admittedly I don’t take it very much. I’m either traveling perpendicular to or parallel to Highland. Poking around on Google, though, it doesn’t look worse than Main Street in Medford south of Medford Square.

Somerville’s roads are pretty good, imo. When I bike to the community path from my house in Medford, I can tell where the town line is by the quality of the pavement.

They’re in Korea, Japan, etc. too. But yeah, that was what I was thinking of. Not sure if it can stop icicles, but I imagine it at least keeps the hardened/frozen snow from sliding off in chunks on top of people.

If only we could copy/paste Cambridgeport throughout the metro area.

Isn’t there a better way of doing that that doesn’t impact the roof’s ability to keep off sun/rain? Make them heated? Or just have them curve upward at the ends?

Are concave roofs like that just as good at keeping off the sun/rain as traditional convex ones? Ya know. “v” versus “^” .

So, needy. Here are the 3 east coast routes now. I used the version of the route for Boston that goes through downtown since the two others do that too. Google says you can save time by going 128 (which is what it said last time too), but I’m not sure if I really trust it. I’ll try to remember...

The Medford BJs is well within 128.

Here’s your first one at least. Same local time as my trip from hell last week. (2-2:30pm) And again: this goes through downtown. The gps specifically routed me around the city via 128 to get from Medford to Foxborough in order to avoid traffic. It still took 1hr 20min. There were no accidents.

4 points: 1) I’ll check these eta’s around 2pm today to see, but… 2) I was not driving through downtown. I went north on 93, then around on 128 to 95 south. I’m sure I could’ve forcibly made the time even worse if I’d taken a different route. 3) If I understand the study correctly, it’s...

Maybe I haven’t been in the right place at the right time, but I’ve driven in NYC and around its local highways a handful of times in the past year and have never seen anything as bad as here. Took me 1hr 20min to get from my house in Medford to Foxborough yesterday at 2pm in the afternoon. A...

I wonder the extent to which the housing crisis has exacerbated traffic. My theory: people need to drive farther to work, school, errands, etc. because they can’t afford to live close to those things anymore. As a result, even if there aren’t actually many more cars on the road as before, you...

Ah, yes. The hearing that’s at 2pm on a weekday 🙄

Thank God. I do commute via the stretch DZ’s talking about and will attest that the 3rd-from-the-right lane is bad to the point I’m surprised my 2006 Toyota doesn’t fall apart as I drive over it. If the work was supposed to start in summer ‘23, do you know what might be holding it up?

Attempts to do anything to make these towns less prestigious/exclusive is going to be met with fierce opposition. The point stands that if the state specifically wanted to integrate schools, there are more direct ways of doing so that don’t involve building any new housing. And really, whether...