https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/slowzones?chartView=line&selectedLines=Orange&direction=northbound

According to Transit Matters, they did fix it, but it was then later reinstated, so this title is a little misleading.

Are you saying I have two insurances?

>incompetence of the State Legislature still c

Imagine thinking they have control over the state legislature. The only way this is resolved is by voting in new reps that give a shiat.

it's ironic that the thing most relevant to "Boston" gets downvoted..

I'm assuming it's by the same "SoMeRvIlLe iS nOt bOsToN!#!" crowd...

I have some hope with Healey prioritizing the T, but not a ton.

She does seem to have directed the transit police to start enforcing bus lanes.

It might be more useful to call your utility and ask for prior therm consumption before you lived there. National Grid told me how many therms the prior owners used for every month of the previous year when I asked, giving me a good baseline of what to expect.

Wasn't this already passed in some version and line item vetoed by Baker?

That customer-facing website will exist regardless of whether the customer gets their bill in paper form or not.

Go to a big chain like TLC. They contract with doctors who have done the procedure tens of thousands of times. Also, don’t go for low cost either. It’s your eyes. Make sure the equipment is fairly new and is calibrated daily. I had the procedure done 12 years ago and it was the best $4k I’ve ever spent. If it’s not too late to have flex spending taken out of your paycheck, do it so you can pay for the procedure with pre tax dollars. Lastly, the procedure is quick and painless. The recovery sucks for about a day. If they offer you medicated drops for pain, use them sparingly so they last 24 hours.

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"Warm weather" is not subjective. You can look at the National Weather Service website and get objective measurements of it.

Everyone in the same area gets pretty much the same weather, same outside temperatures, etc. Heating costs vary directly with outside air temperature for everyone, although by somewhat different amounts due to insulation, window treatments, etc.

If the weather causes my heating fuel usage to go up by 30% one month, it's very likely that yours will also go up by 20-40% for that month.

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The legislation effectively resurrects the 2019 fiscal control board service delivery plan for electrification that was later shelved when that board was dissolved. With a new governor and big shakeups looming over the MBTA, I can see how politicians want to get this plan on track and move away from the short-sighted hybrid concept.

That being said, the legislation is very half-baked and infeasible, especially regarding the electrification deadlines for 2024. Even if EMUs are ordered in the next 1 to 2 years, the T has no facilities that can maintain or receive electric regional trains; leasing interim electric locomotives from Amtrak is also difficult since they’re already stretched thin for motive power on the NEC. Likewise, the Providence/Stoughton line station sidings are not electrified past providence and requires a substantial amount of infrastructure installation (also forget about electrifying Newburyport/rockport or Fairmount by 2024, even in a perfect world that’s unrealistic for the MBTA).

While I don’t think this bill will go anywhere, I’m certain a lot more similar bills will be submitted over the coming months.

As others have said on this post you don’t get “cleanings” after periodontal work you get perio maintenance which is covered every three months

Orange has been extra fun lately.

Was anyone at Wellington this morning? Aside from the 30+ minute wait between trains, I thought I heard them say someone had gotten an electrical shock on the platform and that they were going to use shuttles to oak grove. Did anyone else hear that?

This is the answer. His/her office probably doesn’t know how to code it

Clearly you don't understand the cost of running a customer facing website, with customer service, IT development, IT operations, etc.

The bills are not sent out by email, they are on a secured website, with live customer support, etc.

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That's arguably the point. Creates interest through controversy. I'd be amazed if they didn't incorporate it and of course deny that.

Yes, Wednesday nights continue to focus on house/techno with Re:Set. Thursday nights are ELEMENTS Drum 'n Bass. Trance music is probably less common but there's an occasional psytrance song here and there on Thursdays.

Even if you have an old mercury switch thermostat, it's still really easy to swap. And if you break the old thermostat, they're really cheap. I kept my old one and it's just sitting in the pantry in a box with the locks in switched out for August Locks, and the original door bell I swapped lol.

You can't make zone control where it doesn't already exist without a bunch of work that your landlord would absolutely need to handle. But Nest has wireless temp sensors you can put in a room and I believe set your temp off that specific sensor.

If your landlord isn't garbage they'd likely do it for you. Mine offered but I didn't want to waste his time.

Along with these OL slow zones, they also haven't fixed the slow zone along the Lechmere Viaduct which was supposed to be part of the shutdown work /:

Went to Dr. Melki for an emergency not related to Lasik and he was great.

I've always thought about getting a smart thermostat but I'm reluctant to get anything that I can't take with me when I move out. Is it fairly trivial to pop off the old one, install the Nest, then do the swap again when you move? No chance of breaking the old one and being forced to replace it, or the Nest not working properly with an ancient heating setup? My apartment building dates back to the 1850s, I believe. Hot water baseboard heat, probably dates back to the 60s? Maybe 50s?

I'd love to have more automation on my temps. I also wish I had zone control cause every room in my apartment is somehow 5 degrees off from the other, with the bathroom regularly being about 50 in the winter, but that would require an entirely new heating system.