Hyag Auto across from Mount Auburn Cemetery is a great garage!

Greg and his father are amazing. Happy to reference you if you want to DM me.

Always CLM. As a woman, I have never felt like they’re doing anything but their best work at a fair price, and that’s pretty much the best thing ever

I’ve always been happy with John & Nick's Texaco on Mass Ave

Good News Garage on Hamilton street in Cambridgeport.

Good News Garage (shop of the car talk guys) has been good to me; they replaced the clutch on my 2011 subaru imprezza when it melted and I haven't had issues with the replacement they dropped in.

CLM auto body in Cambridge is great! If they don’t for some reason do clutches, I’d imagine they could recommend another place. 617-497-6722

Not sure what you'd be doing your PhD in, but Harvard has a shuttle that runs into Allston and will drop you off pretty near to where a lot of offices/labs are (along oxford street). If you want to look across the river.

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Who knows! That's the whole point. You may even be wrong about why traffic was stopped in the first place. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter.

Cars inherently create traffic. If you don't want to have to worry about traffic -- ever -- ride a bike. If you insist on driving a car, don't complain about congestion! It's like going sailing and complaining that you're getting splashed!

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And, before the "oh, but I need a car because of XYZ reason" -- great, I think you should drive then! But, the overwhelming majority of people driving cars on city roads are doing so out of "convenience" (which, to me, is more just laziness becasue it's not convenient being traffic and causing congestion all day!). So, let's do everything we can to get people who use cars-of-convenince off the roads on on public transit, on bikes, or on foot -- it's better for everyone.

It varies by the state. Not all states grant sales or meal tax exemptions to non-profits, some limit it to certain types, and some require additional steps to qualify.

It had nothing to do with transportation/congestion it was the idiot cops that decided it made sense to stop both lanes of traffic because people were trying to pull into the garage.

Right lane turns into the garage, left lane we are all going straight, why stop both.

I used to work at MoS and february school vacation week is definitely the busiest vacation week. Tough to say if black friday or presidents’ day is busier but they’re both insane. September is the quietest time by a long shot if you want to plan a time to go.

There is an MBTA stop a few hundred feet from the Museum of Science

Then drive and deal with the chaos! Or have your loved ride a bike with you - even more fun.

I'm not saying to ban cars. But don't go around complaining because the worst transportation option has the expected effect on congestion. If you want to drive, drive! But don't go around complaining that it's congested with traffic. You are traffic!

Seriously? Not all of us live in biking distance and many of us drive our loved ones to work. The city exists for cars too.

In the US.

Fair enough. Having ridden through it pretty regularly for the last ten years, it at least feels like it's getting A LOT better and that the end result of all this work will be a massive improvement. Stay safe out there!

That particular intersection is some of my own worst close calls on a bike.

I avoid the shit out of that stretch between the museum and the bridge.

Universal remote goes in docking station!

Ah right I forgot the completely reliable T goes absolutely everywhere in the state, I should have done that.

Ya obviously I’m not driving from Cambridge to the Museum of Science.

Cambridge water is only crappy for machines with heating elements and spouts after really long periods of time. Shower head filters are useless (think about the size of the cartridge vs the volume of water going through). There is nothing in the water that would be bad for plants. It’s all in your head.

Lyndell's has a pretty solid jelly donut that can work as a Paczki in a pinch!

Baltic deli has decent paczki!

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