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No they didn't get into why there's no residential component, which is a real shame considering how much is right there. That Winter/Washington/Main triangle could be very walkable and lively with a little more housing and a little less parking

Yeah I pulled a few shifts at cussers in early 2021 and I couldn't believe how busy it was considering the circumstances, thats really sad to hear its going away

I think most people on this board would agree with you, but it's pretty evident the general public does not agree

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/13/business/liquor-license-expansion-boston-restaurants/

https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/local/2026/01/13/weymouth-ma-honda-ma-site-development-sprouts-farmers-market-7-brew/88105342007/

Massachusetts did very well in the most recent Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant awards: https://www.transportation.gov/grants/ss4a/2025-awards 14 entities were awarded a total of $13,534,965 in funding. The three largest awards are most of that funding, with the others being small...

That has to have been a misstatement or something on their end. I cannot fathom the idea that they haven't done any kind of existing conditions analysis, particularly when they're arguing the design needs to be a certain way because of traffic counts

https://www.patriotledger.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/dining/2026/01/06/photos-davios-in-braintree-closes-at-south-shore-plaza/88036714007/ Two South Shore Plaza restaurants closing down, Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse closed this past weekend, while UNO Pizzeria is closing this weekend.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/01/05/liz-breadon-brian-worrell-boston-city-council-president

MAPC and the Neponset River Watershed Association are hosting a meeting on January 15th to review designs for Blue Hills Parkway in Milton, with the goal being improving walking/biking connections to the Blue Hills...

It's somehow worse than that. I was ready to do a whole "well that's not fair Texas is really big and rural" but just isolating for Dallas it's apparently just under 5x as likely (2017-2021). Only NYC beat Boston.

Just to add, this was also in response to a recent Jacoby opinion piece on how great Dallas and all their highways are

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/05/opinion/hard-truths-transportation-costs-transit-traffic/

No disagreement there. At a certain point cost of living is going to become a massive impediment towards "talent" wanting to live here. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/business/boston-development-real-estate-approvals/

They present it as a pretty mixed bag. Drive times are slightly up, bus times are much more significantly down, crashes are down, but bus-involved crashes are up. They point to (and I agree) the lack of a barrier between the bus lanes and the travel lanes, allowing the more entitled among us to...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/metro/bus-lanes-boston-columbus-avenue/

Right, I was asking you to explain why you think that's a good thing and that Boston should "get bent"

What is the reason? I think in a saner world there wouldn't be a municipal line, and our micro-munis are an incredibly detrimental relic

What makes you say that? Please, do elaborate.