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I've lived here in Malaysia for 14 years, so I'm well aware of the cultural differences. Malaysia is certainly conservative by American standards, but it's somewhat moderate by Muslim standards. There are some parts of the country where Islam is so dominant that they segregate movie theaters...

You really can't compare to NY. A Metro North mostly pass does not entitle you to unlimited subway and bus like an MBTA monthly pass does

I get what you're saying. I would never expect Lowell to look like Lexington, and that's fine. But poor immigrants should be able to live in a city they can afford, but also one that has roads that look like they've been maintained and sidewalks that don't have grass growing through the cracks...

I made this thread to point out the pointlessness of having women's only coaches on trains. The pictures below were taken on one of the MRT lines in Kuala Lumpur. It seems like the city's newest train lines, as well as commuter rail, have women's only coaches, but the older LRT lines do not. I...

I was last there in July/August 2022. I get that it was just after the region started opening up after covid and the university was not in session. But from driving around, the neighborhoods and downtown just looked run down. I'll be there again this summer and hopefully there will be some...

I've been hearing that for years, but I'm not sure if I see it. Sure, crime is way down and the city is much more livable than it was in the 90s, but when I was last there in 2022, the city was kind of run down. To me it seemed like they had made their progress throughout the late 90s and the...

That's a terrible rendering, but I do like the idea of having standing room only in certain sections. Maybe we'll even get our own hooligans!

Pardon my engineering ignorance... But if a bridge is located over a major shipping route, shouldn't there be safeguards be in place to ensure that a container strike wouldn't collapse the whole bridge?

I love this. I'd love to see a ski or sledding slope like this in Boston.

I know that Billerica is trying to fight the law as well. If you look at the area around the N. Billerica train station, half of it is wooded. I hope these towns lose their fight against this very reasonable law.

I lived in Honolulu in 2001-02. Besides Oahu, the only other island I got to visit was Kauai. I really regret never making it out to the Big Island - It looks amazing.

Born in 78 in Billerica and lived there all through HS. Went to college in CT back to Mass, then a few other states, now overseas in SE Asia. I come back to Boston every couple of years now and I love what I see happening in the city. Last time I visited in summer of 2022, it seems like the...

As the slow zones get fixed throughout 2024, will the MBTA start increasing the frequency of the trains? I was looking at the schedules the other day and red, blue, green and orange lines seem to have fairly lousy headways these days.

And a Boston team that wants hire numbers will do better playing at a stadium that has access to route 93, the orange line and commuter rail. Putting a team in the middle of Roxbury isn't going to draw fans from all over.

If a women's team moves to Everett, between men and women, they'll be able to use it 40 times a year - maybe 20-25,000 fans per game for the men and maybe 5,000 for the women. That's a consistent and constant flow of people into and out of the stadium, plus it still leaves over 300 days of the...

I don't see Franklin Park as a great place to have a pro soccer stadium. Sure, there are a few busses that go there, but in order for people to go there, there going to need subway and commuter train access.

Help me to understand this... If The Revolution, as well as a women's team, both want stadiums, why not build one and let both of them use it? I get that the women aren't the same draw as the men, but there are ways of dealing with that. It seems like an awful waste of space to have TWO pro...

That's the only decent thing you can see at Gillette Stadium these days.

I see a lot of talk about whether or not we should blame Eng for this and other current problems with the T. Just look at how many governors and T leaders have come in and out over the last 20 years promising to fix the T and it continues to deteriorate. Are they all incompetent? Most likely...

Sorry to sidetrack, but my daughter's 20 months old now. I can't wait til she's a bit older and I can take her hiking like this!