itsonlyastrongbuzz

itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_j189ddp wrote

Southie east of Dot Ave. Chelsea just purely due to its proximity to the downtown and total lack of rapid transit. (I know “cHeLsEa iSn’t BoStoN” but it’s Suffolk county and more relevant than the western Boston neighborhoods).

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itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_iyd081p wrote

Lead-up to takeover: Make outrageous request for performance and threaten to purge unenthusiastic staff via social media hype campaign.

Week 1: Initiates Pie in the Sky ideas. Immediately learns about the maintenance backlog and that the employees are Union.

Week 2: Turns to social media again to: A) Undo everything he did, and B) Have someone teach him the basics on how to run a transportation agency.

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itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_ixjkczo wrote

Less restrictive, absolutely!

Not total abolishment; some libertarian pipe dream of “build anything you want anywhere and it’ll just sort itself out.”

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itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_ivhl717 wrote

Reply to comment by wallet535 in AMTRAK from BOS to NY by unicynn

Assigned seats on the way down aren’t super important since the NE Regional starts at South Station and you have free reign… but assigned seats **are **nice for when you’re returning to BOS from NY and the train is already full with coming from DC/Philly, and you have to go hunting through a few cars for a seat, possibly facing backwards or next to the bathroom that smells like a hot morgue.

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itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_ivgpo7o wrote

1: Book as far in advance as possible.

2: The NE regional business class is worth it (to have assigned seating) and it’s only like 20-30 mins slower. It’s totally fine.

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itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_iuia1yk wrote

>To add: It's absolutely insane it is illegal to fill a ship with LNG in Texas and sail it up to Boston Harbor. It has to be rail or pipeline by law.

It’s not illegal to ship LNG, it’s just that there are no American flagged vessels who can do it.

Only American flagged vessels can trade between America ports, which was meant to keep the shipping industry alive in order for us to be able to raise a navy.

This was decades before the military industrial complex created a mind boggling defense industry of shipbuilders that do nothing but build warships.

Since basically all LNG transporters are foreign, we cannot buy American fuel from an American port and transport it here.

We have to buy it internationally, from further away, and compete with international buyers who are in turn, squeezed by Russia.

Repealing the Jones Act would allow foreign ships to bring us domestic natural gas, and would allow foreign (cheaper) ships to operate between Puerto and the Continental US, driving the cost of everything down significantly, and opening them to more trade.

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