Cambridge Common! They have a lot of different table types, and you can definitely call and ask for them to reserve a particular area for you that will meet your needs. Decent menu, well lit, fairly accessible for people with mobility needs.

Grafton St.

Cambridge Brewing Company ticks your boxes except for the hightops. Though they do have a separate bar height rail with seating

Nope

Russell House tavern is pretty nice for families!

Do you need the place to be T-accessible? Do you need it to have convenient parking?

that compare across time feature is awesome and I just lost half an hour to looking at places around where I live over the years. I didn't know you could do that, how did you do it?

I just can't get over the fact that we had funding all lined up and everything to extend to the Red Line all the way to Arlington, then blocked it. And forty years later we are talking about maybe doing an express bus route.

Maybe you spend too much time on reddit.

Me too. I think it won't be reliable until it's extended through Arlington though.

Now they just need to ticket themselves when they park in a bike lane

Well, you need about a quarter of the stops for an express bus, and you run them more during rush hours. The CT 1 fails because they didn’t advertise it, they treated as a separate bus on running the same route, they ran 1 bus for every 10 regular #1 buses, and it stopped at Central Sq, not Harvard.

The CT2 is successful and still running, but ran a separate route connecting multiple subway lines.

Yea. I would like a bus that goes straight from Cameron to Porter to Harvard lol but I doubt it Will happen

They should add an express bus that hits the more used stops but much fewer of them. The CT1 was a great idea but the T set it up to fail.

And this is without police even enforcing the bus lanes. Can you imagine, telling a Boston area driver that there’s a lane they can use because it’s used by a bus.

I hope this data supports extending the bus lane all the way to Porter, so least. Traffic tends to clear after that

Nice to see some data. It does feel a bit cherrypicked (or alternatively maybe an advertisement for how nice the routes could be if more than a few blocks had bus lanes) to only consider a tiny portion of the overall route. Anecdotally (I (try to) take the 77 a lot) that route seems to get bunched up and come more like two to three busses every 30 minutes than what the actual schedule says, and it's faster to walk between Cameron and Porter in practice about half the time.

What I would like to see instead of bus travel time as a metric is person travel time - something like given a random distribution of humans arriving at the bus stop, how long on average does it take, including waiting for the bus, to get to a given destination.

Agree on the control, but the route's own ridership isn't the only thing that the system ridership drop indicates. Commuting overall is down. For example, peak traffic levels in Boston are down by almost half between 2019 and 2021 on some days of the week. (See https://www.tomtom.com/traffic-index/boston-traffic/)

My only exposure to this nonsense is through the people who keep posting about it in this sub. Seems a liiiittle much.

Honestly he is a friendly and chatty guy, and seems like a good human being. I think if he wants his business to succeed he can’t live in the past, which is what all these businesses are trying to do. Despite me liking him in general, I don’t get my hair cut there lol.

I rode my bike by Fast Phil's a few weeks ago when it was warm, and the dude sitting out in front (Phil?) waved and said hi to me... I was surprised because I've seen them listed as one of the biggest crybabies about the bike lanes... signs of a thaw?

fake biker post, pay no attention! /s

The 77 was only down 8-16 % in ridership (from the analysis), which is less than the bus system overall. It would be nice to have some comparison to one of the other key bus routes with out dedicated lanes, if they could find a good control.

I’d rather a civil conversation than people snidely complaining about something minor. I think the app is useful and used it for broken water fountains and whatnot but many of the complaints are mean spirited amongst neighbors for minor issues.

That's a casual joking reference. Obsession would be replying to every negative mention with something like "FAKE BIKER REVIEW NOT A CUSTOMER".