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And here is the proposal for speed cameras statewide. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/23/metro/governor-maura-healey-speed-cameras-legislature-ticket/ Slippery slope just got even slipperier. Along with other tax raising proposals.

Fallacy? Chicago is using it to raise funds (not enforce laws) https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-drivers-face-lower-speed-limit-more-cameras-after-28m-fine-drop/ Washington D.C. and Chicago, which have come to rely on cameras to plug holes in the general revenue stream. He even argues...

Big brother lives to tax and fine the populace so it can have more money to feed the beast of government. Once camera enforcement starts it will expand and speed limits lowered until everyone is getting fined (with politicians tickets fixed of course).

We passed a Mass law to audit the legislature but they are ignoring it. We also have Mass FOIA laws that folks often ignore. If the state doesn’t care about federal law why should towns care about state law?

So build 50 stories - 25 hotel and 25 residential.

The legislature doesn’t comply with the audit law, governments don’t comply with FOIA laws, they don’t comply with federal rules on immigration matters. What do you expect?

You can’t park long term in the T lines parking lots. Walking to the commuter rail transferring to transit then switching to blue line and then massport bus with luggage and often kids is not worth it. Especially early on a weekend or returning late at night. Too much variables in missing...

We should not ignore unless permitting and red tape which everyone does.

A bunch of them may be connecting through hubs or onward to international flights those are harder to displace with train vs. trip where NYC is the destination.

The T would use GAGAP and not GAAP. Government accounting is not the same as commercial accounting. I’m not sure that lease accounting is as important as cash flow to the T on this point.

I didn’t point to the T as the decision maker. I said they should not increase costs and lower revenues when they are facing a massive operational deficit whether the T or the state makes the bad decision is irrelevant. When your have a massive mismatch between revenues and expenses the first...

my original point was school costs kept increasing even though student population was decreasing. Someone said it’s all special ed costs but that’s not the whole story which is my point.

I never said it would solve all of the problem. But when the boat is taking on water, you don’t drill another hole in the hull, however small. MBTA is a very poor spender. It is trying to catch up but has been lighting funds on fire for decades.

It is a spending problem. I would suggest that expanding to South Coast isn’t cost effective neither is new BEBs when we had trackless trolleys. The new gate system and CRRC cars were handled ‘poorly’. The pensions are a disaster too. Spending hasn’t decreased.

But the money still has to come from somewhere. We just raised taxes $1.8b a year for transportation and education.

No state party. The statement was “business meetings”

Is the E to D connection in Brookline Village still physically possible?

So why are they expanding free and reduced fare rides if they are $700m in the hole?

Interesting. I’ve never been to a business meeting in Europe and had a US flag present.

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