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It's entirely justifiable that much of the immediate concern over the NYC cordon pricing delay is over the MTA funding loss.

But it's the realization that explicitly de-incentivizing driving is basically impossible in the US that worries me most.

In 1995, the state said it would build a new walkway across the Charles along the #MBTA's North Station drawbridge to connect the new North Bank and Nashua Street Parks – and provide a direct walking route between Cambridge and North Station.

Nearly 30 years later, the T is planning to replace the bridge – but without any bike and pedestrian paths:

mass.streetsblog.org/2024/06/0

I do wonder how many of those 2700 spaces they need to replace under joint development regs. I'm all for retaining end-of-line access, but that garage hasn't filled in years.

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should i post this on nextdoor

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Oh man, GREAT news in my neighborhood:

MBTA issuing an RFP to redevelop Alewife Station's decrepit 7-acre 2700 space garage!

bankerandtradesman.com/mbta-se

How exactly will i spend down that $300 in store credit in addition to whatever i've got banked from prior rounds? People are saying that i'll figure something out.

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oh boy, it's that time of year where i get sucked into a Crazy Deal arbitrage death spiral of the Ocean State Job Lot

Who Wore It Better - Shark-Themed Urban Arrows At the Volpe Center Edition

Guy on sidewalk in Inman shouting to guy blocking crosswalk in his wankpanzer:

WE ARE JUDGING YOU FOR YOUR SHITTY DRIVING

[no it wasn’t me]

Fancy a challenge? Here’s an ooooold Urban Arrow with a Daum motor (who?) and I think roller brakes for $3500 in Brooklyn facebook.com/share/vg9F6Ga2Zaj

I read to my kid’s first grade class this morning and it made my entire week

Apparently one of the VIPs knows me, waved hi, i didn't wave back because i was having a rare burst of goblin-mode productivity, and now it's An Issue. I love the cube farm.

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