Yeah this is def a Berlin thing, although it has been spreading all over Europe the past couple years.

This is the first time I’ve seen it outside of europe.

I know this isn’t the answer to your question, but one thing you should really keep an eye out for while you’re still here is steak tips - either in a store or at restaurants.

AFAIK they’re a local-ish thing and are generally a cheap way to enjoy steak. And even on top of that, because they’re generally fairly tough cuts of meat, lots of places have unique ways of marinating/tenderizing them.

That’s clearly a bad place to ride on the sidewalk, but it’s also not illegal to ride on a sidewalk and it’s also quite dangerous to ride on the road in certain spots in Boston.

Best solution is to continue building out bike lanes and rights of way for and then make it illegal to ride on the sidewalk.

Is it weird to say that Transit Matters is one of my favorite things going on in Boston right now?

It should be done at some point, regardless. Also, could you elaborate on your $10bil number?

If we manage to do all that, then it will be possible to run trains without drivers and we’ll be able to run trains a lot more frequently.

Speaking long term, one of the biggest recurring costs to transit systems in expensive, modern cities like Boston is paying for operators of the system. Eliminating that when we can would be quite nice.

Damn, it’s a bummer to hear they’re still only take out. Gunna be coming back to Boston for the holidays was hoping to be able to visit.

God this is such a dogshit comment.

I did grow up in the Boston area - not that it even matters.

But how dare you try to diminish the needs of people who live in Boston because they’re not from here, as if that fucking makes a difference. They pay taxes here. Their opinions matter just as much as yours.

But you go ahead and enjoy your participation trophy for the “least shit transit system out of the worlds shittiest transit systems” while people are getting priced out of the city and can’t get to their jobs effectively.

I did, in fact, grow up in the Boston area. And I lived in Boston proper for 8 years.

Who fucking cares if the T is good by American standards if it still doesn’t fulfill the needs of the people who live here?

Honestly, if your whole thought process on this topic is “well at least it’s better than Houston”, then my opinion is that it’s YOU who lacks proper perspective.

Maybe the demands from the Darwin’s union were too high. But, yeah, Darwin’s might be the first of many cafe-type businesses to close down if they can’t pay their workers well.

It’s insanely expensive to live in Boston, and the public transportation is absolute dogshit, yet people just expect a servile class to somehow make it work with terrible wages.

Things are gunna go to shit unless something changes.