MBTA said a medical emergency at Park Street 20 minutes before the shuttles were announced.

My answer is we should only consider penalizing driving once there is sufficient housing for everyone who works in Boston to live either in Boston or within walking distance of a commuter rail station.

The apartments in the industrial park sandwiched between the Braintree Split and Burgin Parkway exits are $2,600 a month.

Two thirds of the state lack any form of inter city public transit. It's a regressive tax on people who can't afford the luxury of living in a commuter rail town. Many of whom have already been forced past 495 or into New Hampshire by gentrification and a complete failure to build housing.

Even the commuter rail system within the 1A/1 fare zones is a mess. A lot of people who live near those stations work outside of the standard 9-5 work hours so the Fairmount and Needham lines don't serve a significant percentage of Boston residents.

I was gonna say need to go to Providence for that. 😊

To clarify - They would've redeveloped the property, which means tearing down the Motel 6 and building a luxury apartment complex in its place.

Mike's Pasty is not any lesser than Modern or Bovas. It just gets a bad rep because of the crowds. But the past 3 times I've gone to Bovas the line was even longer than Mike's. And Mike's has other locations which aren't anywhere as busy as the North End location.

I think they assumed New Bedford was located next to Bedford.

Braintree residents had a meltdown when the mayor proposed redeveloping a decaying abandoned motel into housing. I can just imagine how this will Play out...

They even got that wrong. They didn't start using the logo seen in the show until 2009. The 2003 logo was an iconic blue sign with white lettering.

A lot of people get swept up in marketing. OpenAI is yet another tech startup that leveraged venture capital to rapidly scale and market a "disruptive" technology into our lives with no plans to grow the company or product. I'm not worried about my job because I don't think OpenAI will even exist in a decade.

We see this trend time and time again, and it almost always results in the tech company going belly up and a return to the way things were. AirBnB killed hotels... now people are flocking back to hotels because AirBnB sucks. Uber/Lyft killed taxis... now people are flocking back to taxis and public transportation because Uber/Lyft sucks.

In a 1br with a living room converted into a bedroom.

Its not taxed at 40 percent. You're probably seeing an increased withholding rate. When employers pay out a lump sum like a bonus or vacation payout, payroll treats it like your normal pay and assumes you're making that every pay period, so the withholding amount increases. You've simply overpaid on your taxes and will get that money back in your tax refund.

Logan Express.

Are any Boston area stations actually using any of these features?

Almost certainly going to offer $50K. I applied to a job there last year with a similar pay grade, something like $58k-$86k. I requested a salary in the middle of the band as it was the minimum I'd need to afford my apartment. The recruiter actually reached to to me and asked me if $58k was OK - the absolute minimum of the pay band and $30k lower than my absolute minimum survivable wage.

I didn't bother responding.

I guess I have to wonder, who are they trying to recruit? People with experience either got priced out to the exurbs or moved to the suburbs to raise a family. The only "talent" you have in the Boston metro area is recent college grads and juniors living with multiple roommates while saving up to buy a home along 495.

A lot of times companies use these moves to force out their older workers with families and replace them with fresh college grads living with 6 roommates.

Enfield CT is in the Springfield MA metro area. Yikes. I hope all current and future workers are getting significant pay raises.

Companies insisting on putting their HQs in the most expensive neighborhoods of the most expensive city in the country then refusing to pay workers enough to live anywhere near the office really grinds my gears.

It happens every snowstorm. Dim witted bosses force people in then let everyone out early right when the storm gets bad. The #1 reason I now work fully remote.

100% depends on the insulation of the apartment. I live in a very well insulated first floor apartment and keep the thermostat at 65. I fill the oil tank once a year.

Is the hot water on gas? It definitely helps if heat is the only thing running on oil. Then you only have to worry about it in winter.

I wouldn't trust the number you were given. There's too many variables at play.

This. Find the original email and CC everyone from the health inspector's immediate supervisor to the mayor, and the city council. Demand immediate action be taken due to the serious threat to life and safety.

Never had to pay a broker in the New Bedford area.

In fairness, the it didn't make sense to extend the Red Line into a wealthy rural town filled with single family homes on massive lots. They should have considered the Waltham route for the Red Line Extension. At least Downtown Waltham and the South Side are built up enough to justify rapid transit service, and the line could've served two college canpuses - Brandeis and Bentley University

I used to work in news and read a lot of arrest reports and court documents. It never ceased to amaze me how many suspects talked themselves into charges.