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Wellesley has a density of almost 3k/sq mi and Needham 2.6k sq mi. Denser than most would guess.

But also a faster decreasing percentage of students overall, so no, I don’t. You take one statistic and make that the sole reason for cost increases. You’re ignoring excessive bus routes, excess half used buildings they won’t shut, excessive administrators and overhead etc.

It wouldn’t preclude a B to B connector so you could go from A to C without having to walk all the way around B

For the 18-19 school year to the 22-23 school year (latest I could see information for) the overall population decreased 8.7% and the SPED population increased 7.6%. Overall in Mass, student population is down 4.2% and SPEd population is up by 4.8%. So I still don’t see why Boston’s costs are...

You answered what costs were increasing but not why they were increasing relative to student population or other districts. Overall, there is a bloat in administrators and cost of education that is laughable. No accountability at the city level. And the education is generally below average for...

Goes back to the 1960s. They built the supports between the rail lines in a 1980s upgrade to south station.

There are two loops not four currently. So it’s not a cloverleaf.

Why does the school budget keep increasing if the student population keeps decreasing?

Right, which doesn’t seem to be allowed under the constitutional requirement for where the funds can be spent. For an agency facing billion dollar deficits and a barely functioning system, fare reductions and ill-advised south coast expansion is making things worse.

The millionaires tax increases are dwarfed by the estate tax and ST cap gains tax reductions.

Repairs and maintenance seems like operations and not capital improvements. Also how does reduced fares fit into the “repairs and maintenance” restriction? Why reduce fares when staring at a billion dollar deficit in a few years?

While I don’t think the tax cut went to the same folks as the 80% tax increase, $1.0b tax cut isn’t a ‘wash’ with a $1.8b tax increase. The damage isn’t done in a day but over time. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/21/business/millionaires-tax-survey-accountants/

Wasn’t the millionaires tax going to provide billions for transportation and education? This place is going to tax itself into oblivion if it keeps this up.

More housing? Easy: - remove/limit zoning - remove/limit architectural review, planning board, neighborhood reviews - prohibit inclusionary zoning / set asides (which is a tax on production) - prohibit community benefits - remove parking minimums - remove requirements for traffic, shadow, etc...

It applied to taxis, Uber, service vehicles, delivery trucks, etc which is paid for by folks who don’t drive. You could also charge people who use the MTA to ride the MTA. They need to look at their cost structure, inefficient union work rules and everything else. The answer isn’t always...

It’s a disaster that was going to screw everyone. Even the unions who were going to get the money hated it.

What about Brightline?

That might be tough with the Amazon delivery of my big bag of dog food or the case of paper towels!

Seems like we shouldn’t have infrastructure be limited such that any failure crashes the system. Plus the truck traffic is artificially reduced given the port restrictions.

Here is the article - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/18/business/massachusetts-population-leaving-domestic-outmigration-housing/ An older article from a year ago - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/15/business/exodus-mass-accelerated-2021-pioneer-analysis-shows/ Mass population is up...