Wait until you learn where NY Pizza and the theatre district are

Newton to Malden sucked. As did running out of gas on that stupid bridge where it’s illegal. 🙄

It’s probably not the only factor, but cops “quiet quitting” when a Democratic mayor/governor is in office is not unheard of.

Everyone in this city that's not a cop thinks the details are bullshit. Thank whatever politicians put that through. But like the person you're replying to said -- the cops are going to work those details if they're available. It's practically free money.

I just go to have a coffee in Vittoria

Some of the videos out of NYC are nightmare-level surreal. I know it's a much bigger city but still..

I hope your cousin recovered ok.

I'm guessing you're a fellow Greek-American? I've been there once for a function and the patrons by the bar and playing tavli were as oldschool (emphasis on old) Greek as you'd expect. They had a portrait of Kolokotroni on the wall so they're legit enough. I never got the deal with their association though, if any - I've always assumed Sts Constantine and Helen. But who knows, maybe they're secular? tl;dr I wish I knew.

The irony of this statement is that they have stationed a cop at the intersection of winter st almost 24/7 now but they don’t get out of their car. Literally feet from where this happened.

Woah. I wish they gave us a description of the suspect. Another random anecdote my cousin was randomly stabbed in the neck at NY pizza in the theatre district. Footage was available but nothing was done. I guess he was stabbed so the kid could get in a gang.

I drive on 495 everyday. The amount of people doing there hair and make up while driving is terrifying

I've sat in line all the way back to Portland St a few times.

No problem!

💯... but as I've come to find out more and more, much of MA politics is people being afraid of slippery slopes and thus pedestrianizing Huntington (and don't get me started on Newbury) would be quite a battle.

Neponset Bridge, the light by UMass on Morrissey Boulevard, Old Colony Ave when the fucking Baldors truck blocks an entire lane delivering to Tatte, the light at the end of the W Fourth St bridge with the guy who walks up the middle of the two lanes… more or less all of it.

And because we don't pay government workers enough, we don't have capacity so we hire overpriced consultants. Like 2/3rds of the 7.7 billion spent on the SAS in NYC went to consultants. So we're barely penny-wise and just massively pound-foolish.

I'm not an urban planner but they should make Huntington just for pedestrians, bikes, buses and the T from the J-way to the MFA. The current situation trying to please everybody is a death trap for cyclist, a mess for public transport (with some of the worst and most dangerous stops in all the T network) and an eyesore.

come be a bagger at market basket💀

The central square stretch of mass ave is one of my most dreaded bike zones, but that's only because I don't have to do the 5 block radius of mass ave and Newbury street with any regularity. It's an absolute mess over there

Thanks for the update!

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Note to all Bostonians the LIRR is still a shit show.

Yeah, my biggest issue is police unions promoting the necessity of sworn officer details over civ flag men with rare, cherry picked examples of "right place, right time." Every once in a while, some shit will pop off and a cop is nearby on a detail to jump in or at least provide direction of flight info. Doesn't seem like a good enough reason to not have them already nearby on directed patrols of very well known problem areas instead.

To be clear, I'm talking about traffic details where they sit in the cruiser and play Candy Crush. It does make sense to have both PD and FD details assigned to major venues and events where there are crowds.

Waiting for the 1 bus to show up and then squeezing myself onto an uncomfortably full bus or watching the packed bus go by and waiting for the next one.

I agree that it is the case, thanks to the settlement of the Feingold suit in 2006, and the two decades of investment since then.

New York only in the last year settled a similar accessibility suit, and is three decades away from coming into substantial compliance, under the settlement funding process.

And has another active suits relating to buses.

Holy crap.. so this could be a totally random murder right downtown. JFC.