Interior of shuttle bus

USB outlet

Apparently the Grand Canyon shuttle gets its buses from the same place as the MBTA, except theirs have USB chargers!

king of the hill cult meme. hank asks are ya’ll the folks that don’t want anything to work? and the cultists say Execution, therefore, must preserve public oversight at every stage. Work should be phased, decisions revisited at defined checkpoints, and reporting made intelligible to non-experts. Expertise is necessary, but it should inform decisions, not replace them. Efficiency cannot come at the expense of accountability; a project that depends on insulating itself from scrutiny risks losing its legitimacy.

I just finished reading Why Nothing Works and everything at this year’s town meeting feels like this.

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Taxes should be designed to change behavior or raise revenue. Which should this be?

picture of a 3-story orphanage restored into a residence

Top stories tonight: Man Bites Dog and Developer Restores Orphanage. News at 11!

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lol this ad (the original, I mean) is incoherent. Who is or isn't "hanging around"? Is hanging around bad? The scene appears to depict the state of hanging around, and that hanging around means playing D&D.

Picture os the HVAC system installation

At the Arlington Heights bus depot things are definitely good happening

Incredibly ironic that trying to build multi-family housing in Lexington results in wailing about infrastructure costs, yet accepting a half mile of streets, sidewalks, and stormwater drainage from a new subdivision--things that actually add infrastructure costs!--goes on the consent agenda.

Can somebody please write a book about education in Steubenville, OH? I can’t stop thinking about it since listening to Sold a Story ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/02/w...

S13411: MAPC- Joint Municipality Bluebikes Expansion, New Project This project includes 17 new Bluebikes stations in Boston, Cambridge, CMAQ $0 $5,944,032 $5,944,032 1500 Ebikes, 25 Classic Bikes, 17 Stations Somerville, Brookline, Watertown, and Salem. Most stations will be in Cambridge. Twenty-five classic bikes and 1,500 e-bikes are also included in the request. This is a joint request led by MAPC.

Great to see this being added to the 2026 TIP. Going all in on the e-bikes too.
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I don't know what serves society best here as far as what happens to the driver, but have we considered banning the use of shear bolts in close proximity to bus stations?

But think about the marginal cost of each additional library user all that housing might produce. It could be hundreds of cents!

The People Who Hate People Of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is that their community is already too crowded.

Today is a good day to reread this @jerusalem.bsky.social piece on Paul Ehrlich, Zero Population Growth, the Green Revolution, ecofascist immigration politics, and NIMBYism.

Impossible to overestimate the damage this guy caused. His book was based on a laughably false premise and the movement he inspired led immigration crackdowns and forcible sterilization campaigns.

Glad the population got one Ehrlich smaller today.

Public school enrollment in Massachusetts is at a 30-year low, and half of the state’s 1,600 schools operate <80% of capacity.

Yet “school capacity” remains a common argument used opposing new multifamily housing in many suburbs.

In nearly every community, it’s simply a myth.

How are the straights of Hormuz doing? Are my guys ok? Do they have giant jenga over there?

My understanding is it stems from how they measure safety. The metric comes from e.g. the number of incidents at an intersection divided by number of vehicles moving through the intersection. Impeding traffic flow makes your denominator go down. Not good for the metric! It's all extremely dubious.

Sign with high gas prices

Respect people riding bikes. Soon, you'll be one of us

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High-End Construction Really Does Help Everyone A new rung at the top of the housing ladder permits people lower down to climb up.

Yes it would be great if developers would build exactly what we want regardless of whether it's profitable.

We are building affordable housing too. The projects mentioned in the article would produce ~240 subsidized homes.

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I assume Dan is aware the MBTA communities law was about housing production, not transit. Feels like some axe grinding going on here.

Clown take. The 62 service was just expanded and Sunday service was added, thanks in part to the young man mentioned in the article, Kunal Botla.

Sure a lot of new residents are going to drive to jobs in the area, but they won’t be driving from Marlboro or Nashua like they would otherwise.

Terrible take. I’m typing this on a 62 bus with plenty of my fellow residents.

TY to @katzpie.bsky.social for spotting this

Screenshot of a real estate condo market summary for Lexington with two snippets hightlighted: "it is very likely that Lexington will see hundreds of additional condominiums being built", and then, "These additional units will put downward pressure on both condominium prices and rental returns".

Over and over and over you'll hear, "Lexington is so desirable; no amount of new housing could impact prices here".

Incredible ad

Amazing statistic. Of course Amy and I are two of those. And no, not all moved to Seattle, as some choose Chicago or elsewhere.

right? get outta that small, depressing town and move to the big city!

Clearly something traumatic and radicalizing happened while riding in Kim's minivan