Lmao. I don’t drive a Prius, but you are showing your ass with that comment and your sources. Move to NH if you like it so much. It’s a much better place for libertarians who are so biased against the government that they can’t evaluate evidence appropriately.

And actually, I do plenty of work around roadways design, evaluation, permitting, maintenance, upgrades etc. You don’t have to engineer roads to know how the are funded and constructed. In fact, an engineer knows nothing about funding mechanisms. I do that exact work for a living. Yup. Did you think I would prove it and doxx myself? Lol

You are a walking Dunning Kruger effect.

I hope you get a chance to move to a place where you will be happier. I can’t waste any more time educating you when you don’t want to learn anything. Bye!

That’s exactly what it means. Their analysis is biased.

Oh! Another biased source! Reason.org is a libertarian think tank. That is not a reputable source. At all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_(magazine)

Did you read my comment? Many more people. So many more drivers and much more wear & tear. Per mile is not the relevant statistic here. If you actually did this for a living you would know. I do.

No, you gave me an attorneys business website as a legitimate source for state spending. That’s not a reliable source.

Oh, and the flaw in your assumption is that spending per mile should be the same in states with VASTLY different populations, therefore roadway users, therefore vastly more wear & tear, and therefore more repair and maintenance costs

So, no. You don’t understand plenty.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_Effect_01.svg

Comparisons from different data sets are not relevant here. do me a favor, though, if you think they are, feel free to actually show me the numbers. Like I asked!

What is your solution? How are you going to fund the reconstruction or maintenance of many many many more miles of roadway in Massachusetts than in New Hampshire?

And what numbers are these by the way? Where exactly is their money being wasted? Point to a specific project and how it could’ve been done equally as well for cheaper.

That’s not true at all. It is not your job to point out that things are shitty and money was wasted when you don’t understand how much things cost and how to fund it. It means that you don’t understand any of the things you’re critiquing.

What is your solution? How are you going to fund the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of maintenance, or hundreds of billions of dollars worth of reconstruction?

Again, what is your solution? You actually think getting rid of row details is going to pay for anything? Do you think there are hundreds of billions of dollars in route details and costs with unions in the state? That’s what it cost to rebuild these roadways

By the way, that is not a reputable source for this conversation.

What is your solution? How are you going to achieve funding to reconstruct the roads?

What is your solution to the problem now? How do you plan on funding reconstructing those highways better?

So which is this? Just for publicity and pointless or an actual problem where they want to make us pay tolls on more roads? Pick one. You are talking out both sides of your mouth. It’s either a problem or it’s not. It’s either a real stupid attempt or it’s fake and for publicity.

And you STILL haven’t given one single idea on how to fund the roadway maintenance better. Come on. Stop moving the goalposts and answer the one and only question asked of you.

What’s your solution?

My statement still stands. There are plenty of real murders. No need to create one when experts better at this than you have determined, based on an autopsy report you don’t have access to, on site evaluations you don’t have access to, that there was no murder. She was drunk, found in a place were other people have been accidentally killed before (recycling compactors have killed plenty of people, there’s a reason wait staff & and retail workers are told to NEVER climb in), and the cause of death is a common issue, especially for drunk people crammed into tight spaces. All of this makes sense.

If you think it’s sloppy work, prove it. Cite evidence. Don’t stir up bullshit because YOU think it’s exciting, or you know better, based on completely unsubstantiated imagined claims. Think about how the family would feel. This is shitty behavior on your part.

Good bye

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/body-woman-who-vanished-while-dumpster-diving-found-landfill-n1135696

Often enough that there is clearly no conspiracy here

Add in the fact that she was drunk, yeah. No secret murder here. Plenty of real ones, no need to create one

That’s not how bills work. They get discussed, debated, have modifications made, are analyzed in committee, revised again, and then they get voted on. How do you think you get people on board without having the specifics of the law written down?

Your solution is to rely on taxes that already don’t cover it and will continue to decline? You are just complaining about the past without anything better to offer. You don’t get it.

The turnpike authority is gone. The ability to shunt funds to other projects is gone. Fuel tax revenues are down. Federal funding is down. Costs are up. Your criticisms of the past and other highways that have nothing to do with the Pike are irrelevant. Provide another way to fund the maintenance or don’t bother complaining. Bitching does nothing to fix anything. If you know how to do it better, tell us. I’ll share it with the planners, DOT staff, and political representatives I work with daily. Give me a better idea and we’ll push it. Otherwise, sit down. You have nothing to offer

Often enough that there is clearly no conspiracy here

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1135696

Add in the fact that she was drunk, yeah. No secret murder here. Plenty of real ones, no need to create one

Ever heard of dumpster diving? It’s a real thing to climb into dumpsters to find thing to keep.

You are also aware that the very reason MassDOT was created and created with that restriction on spending was because of the Big Dig, right? How is it besides the point that the laws have been changed after the Big Dig to prevent it from happening again? Today’s conditions were created as a direct result of prior mistakes. How is it besides the point that 20 years later we still need to maintain the highway even though we got rid of the ways that the state was allowed to take that toll money and pay for other projects? It’s the entire point. The state has done a bunch of things to reverse those bad decisions and we still need to pay for the mass pike. Give me a better way to pay for it and I’ll happily share it with the regional planners that work for the state that I know and work with myself.

So changing realities in the world are besides the point because people made a decision 60 years ago? That doesn’t even make sense. Please explain to me how a decision 60 years ago make todays conditions besides the point. When you are complaining about todays conditions. Just saying it’s besides the point doesn’t make it so.

The bonds weren’t even paid off until 2017, AFTER MassDOT was created. That’s pretty damn current and relevant. 6 years of extra tolls for maintenance and improvements… I’d say that just like the precipitation data that’s over 60 years old being irrelevant to today, the reasons for the tolls having been started is what’s actually irrelevant, not the needs of maintaining it today.

And while you are explaining to me why I’m wrong and todays conditions are irrelevant, can you propose a better way to fund the maintenance? If all you are doing is just being mad about a 60 year old decision changing but you don’t have a better solution, then why are you complaining? You don’t have a preferred alternative. But if you do have a better alternative, please share it so it can be implemented

The issue is that federal funding for maintenance just doesn’t keep pace. The tolls pay for that upkeep. And the enabling legislation that created MassDOT when the Turnpike Authority was done away with does not allow monies collected as tolls to be spent on anything other than the highways on which they were collected. With fewer federal dollars for roadways and many more drivers in the 58 years since the Pike was built, changing weather conditions, and new important federal regulations to manage stormwater (if you like having clean drinking water this is vital), it has not gotten cheaper to maintain the Pike or any other roadway. And the funds collected must go straight into maintain that roadway. I’m struggling to see why it bothers people. And if it does, are people willing to pay more federal and state taxes to maintain the worlds they use to get to work or move products?

People with sucky parents should help each other out 😊

So glad I can help! r/raisedbynarcissists may not be the right sub for you; I have no idea what type of sucky parents you have. But you can find resources on how to prep to move out at 18 on that sub

Nah… there is nothing illegal about two people 16 or over having sex in MA. This guy is being weirdly and incorrectly pedantic.

From the state website:

E.C.O. v. Compton, 464 Mass. 558 (2013) "A person sixteen years of age or older is legally capable of 'consenting' to sexual intercourse. See G.L. c. 265, § 23; G.L. c. 277, § 39."

Your homophobic parents can’t do ANYTHING to your boyfriend if you are 16 and he is 18 and you have sex. Nothing.

But they could still ground you, take your money & property bc you are underage, etc. You are legally allowed to have sex with your boyfriend in MA. Just remember they can still be parents until you are 18. But I’d start making plans to get out now; start saving in a place they can’t get to.