Wrong.

We can build the homes we need without high rises. We can build the homes we need without giant box apartment buildings. Has anyone ever walked around the South End with the brick row homes, or the upper west side in manhattan, and thought it was ugly?

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People fetishize neighborhoods like that, but they are illegal. Illegal, illegal, illegal.

Thank goodness for places like Belmont -- SFHs within shouting distance of Boston!

I also think that pedestrians should be required to wear reflective vests and carry little flags across the street with them -- and if a collision is unavoidable despite all this, they should get down on their knees and be thankful that the motorist will suffer no injury or punishment.

If anyone is driving their car fast enough on brattle to flip it they should have their licenses taken away

The electoral college has nothing to do with this issue, and even if it did, the EC gives more power to rural areas than they would otherwise have.

Car infrastructure is free, don’t you know that? we only talk price tags when it is public transit.

Fix the T first. Its not fucking complicated.

Love that you can look at cambridge PD reports and see that pedestrians are sent to the hospital almost on a daily basis after getting hit by cars, yet this is somehow some major scandal. typical.

So how are they going to keep idiot car drivers out of the bus lanes?

I would take a realistic solution over thinking that the state is going to change its entire way of life in the next hundred years, sorry. Most of Mass is not dense enough to support “state wide public transit” and won’t be any time soon.

And there is no reason why a city bus system can’t coexist alongside a regional bus system. That is how it works in the NC Triangle/Chapel Hill and it is brilliant.

Cambridge needs its own bus system, with much higher frequency and dedicated lanes and preferably free of charge. The MBTA will never serve the needs of the city because the state has no interest in properly funding public transit and honestly it probably never will. The suburbs hold complete control over the state house.

We’ve lost any sense of civic duty and togetherness in this country. We have become fundamentally incapable of doing things that benefit the public. Talk to anyone in the suburbs and they will tell you they would sooner die than take public transit, and that it shouldn’t be funded because they don’t use it and because it is mismanaged.

You’ll never get that architecture back

What a shame because waterbury is beautiful. The way the valley is drenched in sun at golden hour. And now there is a fucking highway bisecting it.

Today OP learns how expensive it is to maintain road infrastructure for cars and that money doesn't grow on trees!

Right, you just took the time to do all that research because you have a passion for urban data analytics

How many people drive around with a living room set taking up 6 times as much road space as a bike while spewing pollution

You found one poor comparison in the cities brochure and then deduce we need to stop all construction because maybe there aren't as many bikes as cars on this stretch of road, which totally definitely for sure isn't completely meaningless because it isn't even up for debate if there is data that support this is a heavily trafficked route by bikes in general.

Love the guy in here starting shit about bike lanes on Hampshire Street as if its even remotely controversial whether or not there is enough bike traffic on that road to justify separated bike lanes.

Meanwhile a guy in Cambridge was arrested yesterday on Hampshire St for crashing his car while drunk, high, open bottle of vodka, no license, and three children in the back seat. “BuT iT Is SO sAfE!!!!!111”.

A few days ago in North Cambridge some clown crashed the car into a house in clear conditions.

But yea, bike lanes are so awful.

“I agree with this post and everyone who disagrees with me is toxic” - says an incredibly toxic person

I don’t think the city did a cost benefit analysis before ripping out the trolleys and making everything for cars back in the 40s/50s/60s.

Have they considered how much car drivers would benefit from being able to use this cut-through to 2? Cambridge Streets for ALL dammit!

They’re planning on turning it into a private parking lot for ClarkFable

Which really makes the screeching from car people about bikers paying to fix the roads comical. Sure, I’ll contribute the fractions of a penny of road wear and tear that I cause.