Verizon charges fees that are the same as what's in the proposal. Same monthly price but without the city making a $194MM spend.

One of the many reasons Verizon is able to match that rate is because it would cost them significantly less than $194MM to build out their network due to their existing infrastructure in the city.

Why would you jump to that idiotic conclusion?

The owner of the network pays to build it. If Verizon builds the network, the city saves $194MM. How many years worth of tithe is that equivalent to? 20? More? Financially, it's a no-brainer to suspend tithe to allow Verizon into the city.

You're off by about $194MM dollars. If Verizon builds the network, Verizon pays to build it.

Anyone at a bar has consented to being talked to simply by dint of being at the bar. If they're offended by someone saying hi, that's entirely on them and maybe they should just stay at home.

How does this compare to simply allowing Verizon to provide TV service without paying tithing? It's hard to imagine the tithing is much more than a rounding error compared to a $194MM capital spend.

I'm curious who will be writing the tickets. The lazy guys are supposedly already understaffed and have no additional capacity for writing tickets. The parking department has the staff, but this will pull them away from the squares where they currently operate.

I need some decent control on the final diameter. This is basically a shoulder bolt where I want to take the head diameter down to match the shoulder.

I checked their website and don't see a lathe listed. The Foundry is really just a community dance center and not an actual makerspace.

The bolt is hardened steel, so I don't think a drill and a file will end up being a workable solution.

Maybe I'll just find someone at Artisan's Asylum who will accept beer as payment.

Great. More stop signs for police to completely ignore.

>Housing in Cambridge is way too expensive, and it really needs to be cheaper.

Citation needed.

> mediocre on quality and price point

If that's a negative for you, then you should probably stop looking for corporate cafeterias.

And it's also not a bike lane.

Several years ago, Starry abandoned new installs in buildings with fewer than 50 units.

I like that this isn't even the dumbest idea on this sub.

We're almost there! There's just this one final step before the next final step, and then there's that other final final step. But we're basically already there so there's no reason to want any effort to be put into any alternatives.

I believe the sequence is that in 2023 there will be a study to determine the viability. Assuming that goes perfectly, in 2024 there will be a study to figure out how to execute it. Assuming that, too, goes perfectly, 2025 will be spent talking budget. Assuming that goes perfectly, deployment would begin in 2026 and will be centered around limited test deployments in homeless encampments. 2027 would see full city-wide deployment, except there will probably be a delay due to installation temporarily blocking a bike lane. So, we should see this municipal network built from rainbows and unicorns some time around 2028 assuming it all goes perfectly. The more realistic timeline has the network beginning to crawl around 2030.

And before I get written off as just a sarcastic twit, consider looking up Participatory Budget cycles. These projects are vastly smaller scale (like, three orders of magnitude smaller), already budgeted, already approved, and don't require multiple rounds of paid background research. Despite this, they still take 5-7 years to execute if they finish at all (over 7 years later, the signaling project for the #1 bus from 2015's PB2 still isn't complete, the bus signs from 2016's PB3 haven't even advanced beyond the planning phase, etc etc).

The city council voted to extend the contract of the city manager that they blamed for blocking secondary providers.

When I called today, they were only willing to go halfway between my current rate and the new subscriber rate.

It's something they have offered in their monopoly areas as a way to say, "hey, we promise we're not abusing our monopoly power."

I've been able to do it every two years at the end of the 24mos price lock until just now.

The actions which would make reasonable pedestrians feel unsafe are already illegal. Making them illegaler isn't going to change anything when CPD's own published citation data shows that they are unwilling to enforce traffic rules.

We don't need any new laws. We just need to get rid of this lazy limp dick so-called police department and replace it with something functional.

This location was less than 200ft from the police substation. So glad to see CPD making a difference [eye roll].

There should be bike lanes.

Until Cambridge hires a functioning police department, what's the point? If we compare driver behavior against Cambridge's Professional Sleeping Department's published citation data, it's already legal to go straight on red, do a 360 on red, drive drunk on red, drive in any direction you want on one-way streets, use the sidewalk as a driving surface, park in bike lanes, drive in separated bike lanes, etc etc. If these things were illegal, then we would see some citation data to back it up.

Without a police department, nothing is illegal. In fact, the police have even been driving in the wrong direction on Garden St's new one-way section when they think nobody's watching.

As long as there isn't an obstructed view, turning right on red is perfectly safe as long as you follow the law. But, again, until Cambridge hires a police department, why would anyone bother following the law?

The published data does not back up this claim. The accident rate is actually nearly zero. Honestly, that surprises me as well given how many drivers simply run reds even after the first couple of cars in cross traffic have already cleared the intersection.