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20 Years Later and 200% over budget
we get the green line extension!
As a slightly differently
As a slightly differently painted bus route.
Yea!
Just another $1.2 Billion (and counting) for those 4.7 miles of Somerville (and a little bit of Medford) already served by buses, that riders and state taxpayers will have to swallow thanks to assholes at Conservation Law Foundation who cost our state many billions of dollars. They had been telling everyone for years how federal taxes would cover most of the costs, and here it is, down to 43%, and shrinking as costs continue to grow.
I know us poor people should
I know us poor people should just shut up and get on the bus before the bus lines are eliminated for blocking the road for rich suburban folk in cars. Kinda like how our neighborhoods were bulldozed to build highways for you.
How dare the CLF shove this
How dare the CLF shove this extension that is hugely and insanely popular down our throats!!!
Would have been cheaper
Would have been cheaper without foot-dragging, but it's still worth it.
I'd like to see a great deal more money spent on transit in the greater Boston metro. Dedicated bus lanes and BRT. More infill. Extend the Red Line to 495 both west and south. Extend the blue line. Build the Indigo line/Crosstown Urban Ring. It might cost as much as the dig, but it would still be worth it.
Please stop it
You don't live there. You don't work in the city. You have no interaction with this intensely populated and urbanized corridor whatsoever.
But, hey, I don't use Mass Ave in Arlington much at all - so I'm going to offer my grand vision for how it SHOULD be set up! LETS BAN ALL CARS FROM MASS AVE!!! Buses, bikes, and pedestrians ONLY.
Why spend any money sprucing it up - just restrict it! Repaint it as bus and bike only.
After all, Arlington is already well served by Route 2. Go drive over there, it was built for you.
See how that sounds?
Not to mention
Arlington already has Summer Street for local traffic, which makes Massachusetts Avenue redundant. They really ought to stop wasting state taxpayer money funding its maintenance for automobile use.
One solution
Toll booths every half-mile down the length of the street. They want it kept up, they can pay for it.
Not just Summer St.
Summer St. and Broadway, Warren, and Gray., as well as Mystic Valley Parkway.
Damned Conservation Law Foundation!
They really did screw the state out of a lot of money!! Just like when they forced us to spend $22 billion on a hole for suburbanites to drive through!
just in time
I think this might have something to do with the Olympics.
scollay 'paranoid' sq