> That’s only the case if they bother to go through the effort of getting a license.

And the data shows they do, again:

> After passing a similar law to allow them licenses Utah saw an 80% drop in uninsured driver and New Mexico saw a 60% drop.

You don’t think having 60-80% less uninsured drivers on the road is a positive?

> There is no real incentive to do so if they’ve been managing this long without bothering.

The incentive is being able to have insurance, no one wants to be out of pocket when their new car is totaled.

Because then they’re tested and licensed to drive and can get insurance. After passing a similar law to allow them licenses Utah saw an 80% drop in uninsured driver and New Mexico saw a 60% drop.

Just another in the long list of examples of Rayla Campbell being completely detached from reality.

> You were gatekeeping the guy by saying more or less that being a Boston resident was a requirement.

Yes, living in the city of Boston is a requirement for calling yourself a Boston resident. Idk how that is controversial.

> Not remotely sure what Somerville’s cost has to do with the price of fish except bolstering the point made at the top of this thread that people have been priced out of Boston.

If they can afford to live in Somerville they haven’t been “priced out” of Boston. The median rent in Somerville is $3k a month, that’s higher than a great deal of, if not most, neighborhoods is Boston.

https://m.imgur.com/Pa9CTs7?r

If you want wordy and annoying all they need to do is unban Mitch and a few other trolls.

Not when Somerville rivals some of Boston’s more expensive neighborhoods in price.

> State Supreme Court told the city to resubmit a plan,

It didn’t, it completely rejected it in July because approval went through an illegal process. The process needs to start over, and it’s being done by Baker, so not on Wu.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/03/business/baker-hopes-revive-tossed-out-waterfront-plans/

> called them up and told them a building was an abomination they would change it.

And it’s an “abomination” because you said so?

> Does Wu address these issues?

Yes.

https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2022/10/Revive%20and%20Reimagine%20-%20a%20Strategy%20to%20Revitalize%20Boston's%20Downtown%20-%20Oct%202022.pdf

> Turning a parking garage into housing and an office will enliven downtown. Why is Mayor Wu against the Harbor Garage redevelopment?

State Supreme Court is blocking that, nothing to do with Wu.

> Or could Mayor Wu, at least, encourage the developer not to build such a terrible building?

Lol, you want her to be an architect that caters to your standards as well?

> Still sad we only have one gay bar now.

I know there aren’t many but there are at least 2 in Dorchester and I think 1-2 in south end.

> standards of a true Boston resident

>flair says Somerville

Don’t mean to gatekeep but I’d say the requirements would, at a minimum, include actually living in the city limits of Boston…

> So many BPS buildings are crumbling trash heaps.

From May:

Wu to launch a new era of school construction, pledging $2 billion to revamp city’s school facilities

> Where else can you hang out late at night?

Boston bowl.

> It’s a hard paywall now.

It’s not, clear cache and cookies.

The report directly from the city: https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2022/10/Revive%20and%20Reimagine%20-%20a%20Strategy%20to%20Revitalize%20Boston's%20Downtown%20-%20Oct%202022.pdf