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Not even most, it's a less than 1 parking to unit ratio. Again, not a bad development and if I were still there one I would support. Just feel like it could have been better. I'm being choosy

I've been torn on this development, which is around the corner from my old place. On the one hand, net increase of units. On the other, instead of three buildings of a couple units each you're getting one larger building and a surface parking lot. It seems like every single Quincy project is...

Maybe their goals are different than what I would be looking at this for, but if limited dollars are going towards making certain routes fare free (which I'm already iffy on in general) wouldn't it make more sense to focus on the worst performing routes in order to induce more ridership? As...

I will concede that using the funds to plug the operating gap left by sunsetting ARPA funds for the MBTA did feel like a bit like a bait and switch. Hooray, we avoided seriously damaging cuts to service or large fare increases, but status quo ante bellum wasn't what it was sold as. That gripe...

I know I have said this 100 times but Quincy is such a frustrating B+- to A- city when it could be an A++. I don't want to detract from how they are outpacing almost everyone on units, but it is all so auto oriented. Give it up! You're not Weymouth! You're never going to be Weymouth!

https://politicalwire.com/2026/10/19/maura-healey-headed-towards-landslide-in-massachusetts/

https://www.wcvb.com/article/mbta-increases-speed-on-a-portion-of-the-orange-line/74170027

A week ago I saw a guy (kid? 16-20) casually walking in the rail bed at Quincy Center. Took a group yelling at/begging him to get out for him to do so. Not sure PSDs would have helped in the Neponset bridge incident though.

Something something historic preservation and neighborhood character

They can't, which is why trying to build a regulatory framework around hardware capabilities and not speeds doesn't make sense to me.

As I understand municipalities are welcome to be more restrictive than the law but not more permissive

Schrodinger's multifamily - gentrifying luxury apartments for tech bros pushed by the city for the tax receipts and at the same time neighborhood destroying blights that attract UnDeSiRaBlEs

Of course it was

We're moving offices and thus I've been going through a ton of old files for the bike-ped program. Among many gems was a letter written to CTPS advocating this exact path be built in 1983 (5? I don't have it front of me. Unirpnically glad 40+ years later that person's vision is being realized...

Oh AND taking a tax paying, high value property on prime real estate off of the tax rolls. This was my radicalizing moment against Koch and Fatseas. Another, not quite as egregious, example is this stupid park they put at the corner of Burgin and Centre. Because everyone wants to hang out...

Even better, it was "paid for" with district improvement financing. They're pretending this is going to raise property values enough to make up the $7M property taking price and (I think) $1.5M parklet construction cost.

Though it would be lovely if we could follow Sacremento's lead in expanding the monitoring to bike lanes

The busses were moving in the opposite direction in this case, but yeah in general @greenlinetobrooklyn to be clear if you -had- gotten fined it would be entirely deserved.

Just because you listed them with two that...haven't been...I want to call out Swampscott has been one of the most eager municipalities to work with us (the MPO) on transportation improvements. They were proactive in planning safe routes to school improvements prior to their new elementary...

Which is why any such district taxation should be based on RPA/MPO boundary wide ballot measure and not each individual municipality given responsibility. If I understand the proposed legislation correctly Marblehead could refuse to be a part of a collective funding district despite the obvious...