Just reread this until you understand

I'll be damned that's pretty cool. Small fleets will never see them because the owner's don't want to spend the money, not considering the liability it would save them.

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I moved from Boston to the greater Worcester area specifically because I’m full time remote. This is such a tired lazy argument.

New England as a region has the best standard of living in the country… what are you talking about?

OP is not OOP

Make more available parking and people will want to come to downtown.

Parking is that subconscious decision on where you’ll want to be going for the night. If there’s no convenient parking, let alone safe parking at night, most people visiting the city or really just not from the downtown area won’t be willing to take a 10-15 minute walk from some random dark sketchy street parking.

If anything, telecommuting should be HELPING Worcester, as we’re definitely getting people moving here from Boston. The big issue is lack of retail. Someone mentioned that Maker to Main would fit in in downtown Hudson, which it would. Because that main street has enough retail where people could “make a day of it.” Worcester doesn’t have that

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Just want to add that the “homeless” are human too- and if you can’t help- offer a kind word or a salutation. Everyone deserves to be treated with kindness- you don’t know the circumstances behind what brought them to this space in their lives- go easy- share a smile. I am not wealthy but I still stop and ask if there is anything else that I could help with - and almost always I have been asked for blankets… fear is what you make of it.

Not blaming the owners for the overdoses, but you can't go unscathed for having non-employees walking around employee-only areas and beyond.

Thats not the same. There will always be junkies and ODs, but in this case, employees facilitated and that goes against the job. If that were the end of the case, they should be fired and business is fine, but the second problem is the other employees not revealing information about access to the troubled roof. That raises red flags about the entire staff.

Leitrims on park Ave is a college bar hence the hours. The oldest person there on any given night is not older than mid 20s lol

As someone who was a drug addict for a long time there’s no fucking way on earth it should be blamed on the owners, imagine you work your whole life to build up your business and some scumbag drug addict takes his buddies up there with some overloaded dope and dies and you get blamed for it.

We need lots of mixed zoning and small shops / things to do downtown (besides bars), rather than large office buildings for insurance company headquarters or whatever. People like being able to walk to things and with the amount of housing units being built right now, we're not going to be able to have every person have a car and still have a downtown that's pleasant to be in. We should dedicate the bottom floors of a couple of the new buildings to supermarkets and then spend a bunch of money on incentives for local people to start the small, unique businesses that make people want to actually live in a city. Having a lot of telecommuters is great for the city (and much easier on our infrastructure) - we just need things that will compel people to leave their houses and spend money when they're done working.

This is why I’m happy to have left New England, as your city rots from the inside out you find it necessary to grandstand your ideology.

Well, hello friend! I have always worked in human services and could never understand why the need for all the education for such little pay…. Unless Of course you are a doc or nurse or radiologist or pharmacist- those jobs MAKE money while taking care of humans - pays very little- no wonder there is so much theft from elders in care- or robbing of patients savings- the people hired to care for them- can’t even make ends meet to begin with… unless they have 2 or 3 other jobs on top of it….

Agreed not a big “tech” person

How about high paying jobs that actually take care of the people we love rather than “tech”

I used to work downtown for 8 years. I loved every second of it. I knew all the business up and down the lower part of main from city hall down to courthouse. It was a great place to walk during lunch- I was a city kid- so walking on my lunch never scared me. It was the place I grew up.

When the pandemic shut everything down- that was the last time I was able to really enjoy downtown and all the restaurants and little shops- mid town mall may have been abandoned in most stores- but it was still fun to walk through to remember earlier days when it was the place to go! There aren’t enough people to care about the city’s history- and all it’s accomplishments and successes- instead all That is focused on is crime and such- which is everywhere. But for some reason - this city has always gotten torn apart By its residents- more Likely that no one with influence or money to do something about preservation. Why remodel and save its history when you can just plow It over and pay lots of people lots of money to make it look like shit. Sorry- I just miss the beauty of Worcester- it’s there- it’s just long been forgotten.

I counted 12 icy roof blow offs on my 290-495-pike commute yesterday. One hit my hood and windshield. No damage but Holy shit terrifying.

From what I've heard, they're difficult to convert due to different setups and building standards.

I moved to the Worcester area BECAUSE of telecommuting.

I’ve seen cops with snow/ice on their vehicle as well. Smh.