Did they shut down the viaduct completely, I thought it was still used for non-revenue service?
Did they shut down the viaduct completely, I thought it was still used for non-revenue service?
Any kind of infrastructure improvement is going to increase property values. Even from something as seemingly basic as roads.
I know that. You know that. And yet we allow the political class to pacify NIMBYs with our $ when NIMBYs assert (against all evidence) that they're being harmed by transport improvements. Why?
Because their taxes/rent will skyrocket, and their lives may not currently revolve around public transport, meaning that they may not see expanded public transit as a benefit to them. It's an me vs. them/us vs. them mentality.
I'll love it when Union gets the Green Line (if I can still afford to live here), but my rent just spiked 9% this year, and construction hasn't even started yet. Definitely a reason for NIMBYs to bitch.
Totally. Those NIMBY complaints are nutzo.
As for rents, I'll take your word for it, I'm no expert on the variances between the ownership versus rental markets. I just know that my apartment is nothing special and it's as expensive as a comparable apartment walking distance to Davis or Porter, and I don't even have a T stop! Busses have plied through Union forever, and only in the last year or so have rents increased dramatically. Maybe Central/Kendall just are that intense and even out in Union it's going boom.
/whine over
The May MassDOT/MBTA board meeting is coming up soon, we'll see if the Type 9 contract finally make it to them to vote on.
Kinki is packing up to leave MA anyway. I can't imagine it would've been worth sticking around for 24 cars.
Meanwhile, CAF is located in Elmira, NY. For them, opening a satellite facility in MA is much more straightforward.
Interesting. That's the builder that was supposed to supply Houston but got entangled in "Buy America" bullshit.