OP sounds like an angry grandpa "those damn kids, riding their bicycles while playing their wrap and hippity-hop music and not saying hello as they pass, why back in my day...".

To anyone who recently moved into a luxury loft in a mill, here's a friendly reminder, Lowell hasn't always been a UMASS campus, for a long time it was more or less defined by it's post-industrial recession, and still is in a lot of areas.

This is a city that still has a huge poverty problem and thus a huge crime problem despite how nice the downtown area looks now.

Welcome to living in a city.

My favorite thing to do when I come across a small town I'm not familiar with is to find the oldest looking blue-collar bar in town, go in, order a beer and get an expert description of what the town is all about from the bartender, who often has lived in that town their entire life.

Why? Is it because taxpayers who don't drive a car don't deserve infrastructure?

>They're going to have to lay down new rail without grade crossings anyway if it were ever to be built.

See, there's my point, why is it that any time it's mentioned that efficient reliable passenger service isn't completely impossible someone always has to assume that the idea is to do it with absolutely zero upgrades to existing infrastructure?

The railroad corridor between Boston, Nashua, Manchester and Concord used to carry the bulk of the passenger service between Boston and Montreal (before the Northern Line was abandoned). It's not like this is a windy old spur to a mine we're talking about, 100 years ago this route carried all of what I-93 carries today.

I also think it's a bit of a stretch to say that the I-93 corridor between Concord and Manchester as well as the Everett Turnpike corridor between Manchester and Nashua is "sparsely populated".

Then there's the whole aspect of that you're the one saying HSR, I just said passenger rail. The MBTA runs over 100mph on one of their lines using standard commuter rail equipment.

> Why do people get mad when I say that rail and highways should exist without subsidies and that fare prices should reflect realistic revenue

Why didn't you say that then instead of implying that HSR can't work in NH simply because the existing freight tracks are only currently maintained to support freight?

Why is it that every time someone has a problem with HSR, their go-to argument is that the tracks won't be upgraded at all, as though the way HSR works is to just put a fast train on any regular tracks.

And as you roll along 93 north of Manchester, be sure to get a glance here and there at those barely used railroad tracks where you could have been riding in comfort at over 100mph all the way to Boston but are in your car instead because NH hates passenger rail.

FL drivers are even worse, and what gets me about them is how the hell does someone that bad at driving survive driving all the way up the east coast? How did that person who can't figure out a NH highway manage to make it through NJ and NY?

My parents got a Jack Russel Terrier they rescued from a kill shelter after someone gave him as a puppy to their 7 year old daughter as a birthday present and apparently he didn't like being a stuffed animal and was "extremely aggressive".

That awesome dog almost had to die because he had to defend himself from the abusive offspring of some really shitty people. Instead he lived to 14 going for walks in the woods every day with my dad who like with me, is full of love but has no tolerance for bullshit, and that dog knew it.

Massachusetts belongs to all of us, not just the Capitol Misspell

That's a lot of words to say "Our organization has a mascot"

Legend has it that the rest of the cow exists inside the building, and if you go up there you can actually milk it, and the milk is apparently divine and not coming from a roof leak dripping on a pile of drywall and asbestos dust and then dripping to wherever the person who decided they were going to milk a building ended up putting their bucket.

The building says M Zimmermann Co, and Zimmerman is a German name, so I think it's more just a slaughterhouse thing.

I picture someone whose career is in butchering cows looking at the fancy new facade of the bank that ripped them off and thinking "one day, my butcher shop is gonna have a fancier front than than that stupid bank, only instead of weird mythical animals, I'm gonna have cow heads, I mean, I have enough of them, you need one to sculpt? I got one right here!".

Can't spell slaughter without laughter

Imagine Manchester or Concord with a subway system and maybe even New Hampshire's own major league sports teams.

It's typical Boston, which by Boston area standards thus makes it typical for all of New England.

I'm still wondering how it just floats there without any supports.

That's "through power", all freight trains through Ayer are CSX, but sometimes CSX will rent the locomotives from NS when they pick up the train to haul it to the yard it's going to, then those locomotives will go back west on another train. This way they don't have to run as much "light power" (locomotive(s) with no train).

He's the CEO of a railroad that doesn't run through Massachusetts

Better fix it before it starts leaking

We have some of the most republican democrats in the country.

I'm sure if you interviewed the whole population, less than a third would even know what the primaries are.

Even less would know that municipal elections exist. It's insane how many people will brag about who they voted for president but have no idea who's running for mayor in their own city.

RepubliQAns

> but they weren’t going to get help from the courts.

That remains to be seen. They might not get help from that one judge, but they have countless other judges in their back pocket.