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SLEEyawnPY t1_it0edbm wrote
Reply to comment by shellshocker528 in Do you think MA needs to build a commuter rail between Worcester and Fitchburg/Leominster? by HRJafael
>Without a greater need, I think a rail route between Fitchburg and Worcester will be a tough sell.
Worcester to Providence would be a much easier sell and I don't see that happening anytime soon, either, even though with respect to tracks at least everything is in place.
SLEEyawnPY t1_it0dugk wrote
Reply to comment by AfroJosh in Do you think MA needs to build a commuter rail between Worcester and Fitchburg/Leominster? by HRJafael
How does that work? Just hop on when it stops to discharge in Worcester and pretend you got on in Springfield if they ask for a ticket? You can't book from Worcester to Boston on the Amtrak site directly...
SLEEyawnPY t1_iszy61v wrote
Reply to comment by Miami_Vice-Grip in Hadley woman accused of releasing bees on police serving eviction notice by Kodiak01
Not every leftist is miffed they can't live in stuffy ol' Boston, anyway. Yeah I'm kind of miffed I also couldn't afford to live there 20 years ago. I don't feel I'm missing out on much as of 2022.
SLEEyawnPY t1_iszgxee wrote
Reply to comment by Any-Campaign1291 in Hadley woman accused of releasing bees on police serving eviction notice by Kodiak01
Ya getting by in Paris seems like it could be hard for just about anyone who doesn't have several mil in the stash.
SLEEyawnPY t1_isz2780 wrote
Reply to comment by swoldier_force in Hadley woman accused of releasing bees on police serving eviction notice by Kodiak01
>the very first option should be dump the house and get into someplace you can afford, even if it's an unappealing one bedroom rental.
This is pretty much Dave Ramsey's main shtick, giving massively overextended Americans dispensation to do the entirely logical thing, but in a face-saving way. "Thank God one day God spoke to me through a guy like that and granted a Caucasian like myself the gift of not living entirely off credit, ego, and cocaine. It was truly a Christmas miracle.."
SLEEyawnPY t1_iqw2qc7 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Lives lost to workplace bullying and mobbing by dignitytogether
>The second I feel disrespected or treated poorly, by ANYONE for ANY amount of money, I’m out.
The other thing that can makes the American workplace environment suck is how many bullshitters there tend to be in them
SLEEyawnPY t1_it0f5ga wrote
Reply to comment by Ahkhira in Do you think MA needs to build a commuter rail between Worcester and Fitchburg/Leominster? by HRJafael
>I really wish we had our trains back.
At one time circa 1950s, 1960s you could take an overnight sleeper train from NYC to Portland ME, it followed a kind of weird route, leaving the Northeast Corridor in Providence to head northwest through Woonsocket to Worcester, then running northeast to Lowell & Lawrence and on to Portland.
From there you could connect to Montreal and St. John NB by rail also, I believe if you had a sleeping car room and there was enough demand sometimes they'd just transfer the whole car to another railroad, and you didn't need to change trains yourself.
There were also regular commuter trains between Boston and Albany and Boston and Hartford, though the Boston to Hartford route was never that popular and didn't last past the 1950s.