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Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Mass transit is mostly the pike and lovely traffic jams

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Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Cat Face Joe posted:

when my car broke down my eu coworker asked if i took the train in and i laughed in a way that was likely impolite afterwards explaining that there were no trains and the bus would take three hours provided it did not break down


Cat Face Joe posted:

last year my us coworker decided to start riding his bike in and he was hit by a car the very first day

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Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Grandmaster.flv posted:

content post:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...E5sM/story.html



long story short the T runs until 1ish on regular hours and bars in Boston close at 2. in this new program last trains run at 2:18a Friday and Saturday so that crowd can get home.

our governor is a moron who thinks privatization is the way and people should rely on uber to get home and is in general all about cost cutting to solve the MBTA deficit especially in the face of critical failures in service last winter


also major service cuts to commuter rail north of the city so lol if you live in a suburb now especially if you think Boston was too expensive to live in before

gently caress Charlie Baker

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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yard salad posted:

funy commuter

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Smythe posted:

Lomarf. Epic subway timings till a crackhead chooses this train as his epic hill to die on and lays out on the tracks. delaying service for 99999999999999999999999 minutes

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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just lol if u can't comprehend using a combined system of private cars, commercial cars, light rail, commuter rail, rental bikes, and buses as makes the most sense

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Shaggar posted:

sitting on a bus stuck in traffic is most definitely not better than sitting in a car stuck in traffic.

wrongo

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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this is some garbage plate tier poo poo

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

population density is awesome

the pub you can walk to is the best pub

I can walk to multiple bars

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

the best bars.

the worst of the six bars you can walk to is still better than any other bar in the city

I'm currently in central new Hampshire and can still walk to four bars in 15 minutes lmao

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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mishaq posted:

lol if you think 90% of americans consider a 15 minute walk "walkable"

lol if you think I consider those "people"

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

lga, jfk, and bos are all, individually, in the top 5 worst airports for delays. flying between them just means you miss appointments a lot

the silver line can go gently caress itself for similar reasons

the silver line is like the least hosed up part of the T

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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because it's actually a bus, lomarf

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

which is hosed up because boston blows rear end

Actually, Boston is good

and the MBTA works4me but lmao i don't commute on it

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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bump_fn posted:

talking to a friend in boston and i was just reminded that green line B runs on comm ave but green line C runs on beacon. great troll or greatest troll?

There's no A line

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

the mbta green line has grade crossings and moves 330k passengers per day. additionally, the extension plan to somerville was by itself enough to spur development of somerville without even laying any track

the T is good

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

mega fuckin extremely agreed. only good thing about boston tbh

well, there's me

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

somerville is an uninteresting brooklyn lite

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Tanith posted:

somerville has MS walker's distillery, at least

also Bantam Cider

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Beeftweeter posted:

lol the stats for the T don't include the green line, the one 99% of peopele i knew in boston lived off of

wait what lmao

Metric is worthless

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

ya green line alone would be 10th on the list of NA systems lol

lmao let's not measure the system that takes people to the professional sports venue

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

let's not measure the four subway lines that tie the largest portion of residential boston to the downtown area

what possible reason could there be for excluding the green line

gently caress

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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every line of the T has above-ground parts

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Shaggar posted:

even tho its identical to the other lines

the green line is not meaningfully different than the other lines of the T; shaggar was right

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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fart simpson posted:

i threw up on the green line once

dehumanize yourself and face to st. patrick's day

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

nah its the only one with at-grade crossings, street-level (non-platformed) car entrances, and overhead power

I just got off the green line

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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I'm on a train rn

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May 11, 2004

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Grandmaster.flv posted:

so the mayor of Boston is trying out a car ban on the soho boutique style street in Boston for one day this summer and I can't wait to hear the bawling from all the moron henrys and their land rovers and audis bitching about not being able to park in front of Burberry or soul cycle

I had not heard about a Newbury car ban but that would be loving amazing

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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bloody is exceedingly right and you must have hailed Satan on a serious level to still be alive, forums poster grandmaster.flv

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Triglav posted:

so you run a trash rickshaw

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Adix posted:

shaggar was white

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

wish they'd unfuck boylston/essex, heading east across the city is basically impossible past the common/garden

Lmao at the concept of Boston's road system being unfuckedupable

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Shaggar posted:

you can walk or ride the subway everywhere in boston which is how it should be

shaggar was extremely wrong

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Malcolm XML posted:

night buses are a life experience to be savored

The last time I took a night bus I fell asleep drunk and ended up 40 minutes away from the Copenhagen suburb I was supposed to be in, got woken up by a bus driver who barely spoke English, and then made it back to my stop where I had to walk a mile along the highway and ended up getting home at about 6am so yes I concur

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

please inform the green line of this reasonability thank in advance

the B line loving sucks rear end, however this would be improved by removing a few of the stops and all of the BU students that get in the way of the train

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

they're allegedly removing some stops but they announced that a while ago and ive seen no action about it soooo

C line might be even worse than B imo, literally a million stops every seven feet

nah the B line is unequivocally worse

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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pointsofdata posted:

that should be a train

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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someone here doesn't know what they're talking about, so I'm guessing it's ice rear end

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

no idea, i just know that it's one of the drivers of the existing regulations

apparently it does happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping_(rail_cars)

it's bad!

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3763899&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=85#post461857022

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Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

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Bloody posted:

a train crashed

I was about to say bruh there's just electrical trouble on the green line but then I looked and :rip:

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