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He has a history of doing such, and it almost always results in the city selling the land at a loss to one of three developers. Or a heavily subsidized parking garage ($1 hour) that is still perpetually empty. Great question. We're buying it without that being articulated because the only...

Would it? The T got more aggressive with these because the public response wasn't what had long been feared it would have been. Personally, I have long standing terrible memories of the seemingly endless night/weekend shuttles of the braintree branch 2019-2021. It's basically switching from a...

https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/politics/government/2026/04/29/quincy-ma-to-buy-eastern-nazarene-college-enc/89854064007/ Probably deserves its own thread, but I will be strongly encouraging my councilor to not approve the bond. We have far too much debt to letting Koch continue to...

Transportation demand modelling is an unreliable and pseudo-scientific field at best and astrology at worst. It's deferred to so much because it gives a veneer of quantitive/technocratic backing in a profession that is deeply, deeply self conscious about justifying their decision making in ways...

Koch is allergic to small lot development and ground floor retail

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/24/metro/double-parking-mattapan-square/ Posting here because it's where almost all the Blue Hill Ave conversation has happened, but maybe it's (probably past) time for a dedicated thread?

Second location

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/22/metro/boston-city-council-streets-project-slowdown-hearing/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/23/science/massachusetts-nuclear-power-renaissance-chernobyl/ The article really seems to lean into the scare-mongering

Fitting this was put out on 4/20.

https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/local/2026/04/21/braintree-ma-residential-plan-townhomes-apartments-condos/89548636007/ If approved, we're looking at over 1100 units across three projects coming down the pike in Braintree in over the next couple of years. Though this one would have to...

Yeah yeah I love bikes and buses and trains and all that, but my real favorite mode of transportation is the canoe. Just got back from a week long trip to Utah where I got to do some paddling on the Green River and hiking in Arches National Park.

Well, yeah. Yet another data point in his history of poor political instincts. I think Platner had a much savvier response in just calling it for what it is: (source)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/08/real-estate/boston-livability-seaport-new-construction-infrastructure/

What's an example of a free market then?

Imagine thinking this is a bad thing

What this actually states is "there are poor people everywhere but wealthy people who can afford to choose where they live want nothing to do with red states"

Can't speak to pricing aside from the above but there will be A LOT of expansion. Removing the per-station operating costs for munis outside of Bos/Camb/Somerville is massive.

So the station electrification is planned to be funded by MAPC's federal congestion relief grant. The focus is going to be on the busiest stations. The "support bikeshare operations" in here is going to go towards subsidizing the cost of ebikes for the end user. TBD on the details of that.

Yeah I think the weekend passes are best for people who live in the city and are looking to get out rather than the opposite, but that's not where (I assume) the most demand is.