Cabs aside, to get almost anywhere within the city it's typically faster to bike and sometimes only marginally slower to walk

I think it’s a pretty legit outfit

The MBTA does fall under the executive/governor as it is under the MassDOT umbrella, and the governor selects the MBTA's manager, and, at least under Baker directly appoints the members of the board of directors who have direct oversight. The legislature controls funding/purse. It very much is on both parties. That said, Healey has been governor for like 2 weeks and immediately launched a search for a new GM. Nothing she can really do at this point and trying to put the current MBTA's problems on her is laughably stupid.

When you moving? From where to where?

>You can't overhaul everything in a month.

I mean it can be done and it's possible to do. Just not possible for the MBTA to do on hindsight.

Hmm, well a lot of the info gets kind of repetitive. X group gets Y dollars from Z source, motion on subject Beta introduced by Representative Alpha. Why not make some tables, and then synthesize a summary of events of the week based on that? You could easily refer to the hard data as footnotes throughout.

I’m a technical scientist, and that is how I’d represent information that is as tedious as this if I was writing a report on it for my job. As a bonus, “refer to table 1” will be very accessible for scientific-minded bostonions.

You say 30 years, the MBTA says 3 months. The truth is probably somewhere in between.

That's why they got it done, everything had been totally destroyed. So everything had to be rebuilt. Boston never got that, so shit is all over the place down there.

If it was easy it would be done already, since it would be safer.

Also at the same.point they don't know what down there. Not perfectly that's why even with dog safe things get hit

I took the Red Line to work every day from about 2012 to 2015. Then when I changed jobs and moved, I took the Orange Line for a year. Back then, as we all know, delays were awful, and the MBTA dangled new cars “coming soon in 2019!” that would miraculously fix everything.

In 2017, I bought a car and moved to Quincy. Driving was immediately 100x faster even with the shitshow that always is 93 South.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago. I hadn’t taken the T in years, but I was going to an event at Fenway and figured I would give it a shot. Drove to Braintree and hopped on the good old Red Line.

A northbound train didn’t come for 30 minutes. Then, shuttle buses from North Quincy to Broadway. Then, the train held at the station for about 20 minutes until it was packed. The Green Line from Park Street was fine. But my total time to get from Braintree to Fenway was over 2 hours. Ridiculous. This was at midday on a Saturday. I decided to Uber home rather than deal with the same shitshow on the way home.

The MBTA has been pure dogshit since my college days in the city. In the almost 20 years I’ve been in Boston, nothing has changed at all. Same service delays, same issues with stations and trains in a perpetual state of disrepair, same tone-deaf attitude from MBTA leadership, same massive debt and budget problems. The whole system is rotten to the core - nothing short of a complete, multi-tens-of-billions-of-dollars overhaul will fix things.

The orange line has been back to walking speed around Sullivan for the last week or so.

Electric trains are faster, cheaper, more efficient, and oh yeah, faster plus EMUs can be run with much smaller train sets on weekends etc.

Not to mention the exhaust issue in tunnels. NSRL when?

"It's not a lie if you believe it – George Costanza" – The MBTA

Sorry wasnt transit matters but someone who showed up on my Twitter that follows transit matters.

https://twitter.com/friendchristoph/status/1617865519243329542?t=OD_dsn0et8jmW3RBPAk16Q&s=19

What do you think about the context the bar graph of each city department’s payout/settlement gives?

I thing that really highlights the issue, each year BPD accounts for a majority of payouts, 2/3 years it’s the vast majority of the total city’s payout/settlement.

I'm not sure if that's true, I remember seeing pictures that look like they were definitely taken overnight.

We can only assume that due to its staffing shortage, the T has turned to amphibian labor to fill the gaps.

What the heck does "bad frog" "frog defect" mean? I assume it's a train term or an acronym for something but that's pretty funny out of context lol

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Like two separate, yet equally oppressive groups?

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Can you link to the tweet? I couldn't find it

Okay not a Boston resident but is there anyone who can explain a "therm"? Is it a measure of heat/ energy? Is it because it would be hard to temperature adjust a volume reader? Just weird cuz normally gas is measured in volume when you have tanks, I've never had gas lines

Mustard man ready to get smeared

Of course there’s more to life than dating!

~1800 sq ft, 3 floors + finished basement single family home

$197 (82 therms)

Nest thermostat set to 68 almost all of the time (65 when it detects we are away, but most roomies work from home)

includes gas for cooking and hot water heater