I feel weirdly like I need to defend the T here and I don’t want too. He’s probably going to fail. Massachusetts politics are insular and corrupt, and notoriously unfriendly to outsiders, and he’s gonna need political cooperation to succeed.

As someone who has lived on LI and in Boston, the LIRR works, which is more than I can say for the T

Looks like it’s happening here, I’ll be definitively going there !

Banners said they’re not showing it unfortunately, a shame cause the screens look great. If you end up going parlour let me know!

If it is more the any "one person" that can help, then let him fall on the sword in the attempt.

I don't mean I actually want him to fail, but even seeing someone even trying would be nice. Like for example, in Milton, their stairs to their train station being removed with no timeline to replacement implying years to even decades, the alleged issue is repairing the stairs triggers ADA compliance so the MBTA needs funding and thus a legislature issue. Milton seem to have tried to pull every string they have between political avenues and even lawsuits. But the MBTA barely responds back to Milton, much less than actually act like their hands are actually tied rather than acting like one tying hands by stonewalling to even give a response.

If the issue is the legislature, then it would be nice to see the MBTA actually act like that implying that it wants to improve but can't rather than the above which implies they just have no interest. If we look back to just Poftak, then just remembering during the year before the pandemic, he even used to say that the MBTA doesn't need more money as more money don't speed up their "fixes".

He's getting nearly a half million a year. I think he'll find a place.

Not banners but I did find a spot,

Looks like Parlor sports is playing both nights according to their instagram!

Make him live by riverside and sit on the green line for the distance

A lot of these social clubs will accept anyone who wants to join. They're mostly run by old guys who just want a clubhouse to hang out in. They almost never have much of a web presence. Just walk up and ask, they're likely to be friendly!

Federal reserve employees love this

You get a response from them?

It is a social club. But they rent out their function hall.

Greek American Political Club.

I don't have the numbers and i am definitely not an expert. I do wonder if the line would reduce traffic coming from Western Mass which could help reduce traffic within Boston itself. Plus it could open western MA as housing market. I am not disagreeing with you, just seeing positives of that connection.

470k is not a lot for a person with this resume

Ya we can get a good chuckle out of it, dude needs to relax

I cackled at that when I watched the press conference yesterday. Could we (as Americans) for once admit that we're flailing when it comes to implementing safe, reliable and effective public transit? There's so much to learn from other cities in Europe, east Asia and elsewhere. The whole "we're #1... at everything!" shtick is so tiresome, to me at least.

There are two options - you can walk across the bridge itself or there are the locks that you can walk across which then takes you under the bridge, this avoids having to cross the busy road at that time and would be the 'safer' route and it brings you directly to the front of the hotel.

To get to the locks come out of the garden walking towards the bridge, turn left at the road that leads to a small parking lot area. Keep walking straight and go across the locks - there will probably be a lot of people doing this. Walk along the right side of the park and under the bridge, the hotel will be in your right. A link is below that shows where the locks generally start.

If your coming from the hotel to the garden this is also a great way to get to the concert.

Lovejoy Wharf

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His contract should stipulate he must live within 1 mile of the T and commute via MBTA to work daily. Two birds with one stone - housing crisis and public transportation

A Springfield-Boston connection is meaningless if you can't get around Boston in a timely fashion at the other end. Unless you work right at South Station.

if it was a one person problem probability states we would have found a person by now.

I couldn’t tell you

As a wise man once said, you can’t make a tomelette without breaking a few Gregs. If that salary is what’s necessary, then let’s do it. This is what I actually want my taxes going towards: making sure it actually works.

Can he fix the Big Dig debt dumped onto the MBTA books? Isn't that the big reason for lack of investment?