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immoralatheist t1_j65wb2g wrote
Reply to comment by jtet93 in I took a 2 1/2 hour flight from Chicago to Boston. It took me 2 1/2 hours to get from Logan to Watertown Square by jenkneefur28
IMO the cost of building new runways and more taxiways, a whole new set of terminals, buying out neighboring properties, building a highway connection to the airport, building a train connection, and everything else involved would not be even close to worth it to get the land “back” (we never really had that land, the airport is all infill, it was just ocean before.)
I think just building a train to the airport terminals is the best thing to do, and would be a fraction of the cost of relocating the airport. Even just beholding an automated people mover to the terminals and train station wouldn’t be a bad option, and would probably cost less.
As for height restrictions, they really aren’t that significant anywhere other than the seaport. Besides, personally I don’t want Boston to be New York skyscraper dense, I want it to be Paris dense, with more 4-6 story apartments, which are not affected by flight paths at all.
immoralatheist t1_j65t6yl wrote
Reply to comment by jtet93 in I took a 2 1/2 hour flight from Chicago to Boston. It took me 2 1/2 hours to get from Logan to Watertown Square by jenkneefur28
It is, but Hanscom is not remotely equipped to be any sort of replacement for Logan in so many ways. No train access, no highway access, only two runways, and both are too short for anything bigger than a 757 (maybe a lightly loaded 767), no real terminals, etc. Trying to make the necessary changes to use it to replace Logan would need to be more extensive and expensive than it would be to just make the various upgrades at Logan.
immoralatheist t1_j5v109i wrote
Reply to comment by Status_Mechanic in Please don’t be like this person by vtham
Does VT not even have a statute requiring anything on the vehicle be secured? MA doesn’t have a snow-specific law either, but they will cite for an unsecured load if you don’t clear the snow off, since the snow and ice comes off and hits other cars.
immoralatheist t1_j2u5ds5 wrote
Reply to comment by hotaspee in Healey should give rural Massachusetts a seat at the table - The Boston Globe by GlobeOpinion
The gas tax indexing was before Baker. Gov. Patrick is the one that vetoed the original bill, and it was subsequently over-ridden by the legislature and passed into law, then was repealed by ballot measure.
immoralatheist t1_j0xu50a wrote
Reply to comment by yardsale001 in Why is the I-90 Newton/ Watertown exit always busy and backed up? by Esen14
> Off ramp should be divided into a two lanes (it’s wide enough).
It used to be consistently used as two lanes during rush hour pre-pandemic, but everyone seems to have forgotten since then
immoralatheist t1_ivtj8hd wrote
Reply to comment by ForwardBound in Who else is surprised Q4 was so close? by 737900ER
>which was that this could lead to voter fraud
Fuck Baker for pushing this nonsense.
immoralatheist t1_jebbpxx wrote
Reply to comment by aestheticbonnie in I live on the south shore and had no idea self service was illegal in Weymouth. by noble_29
It’s faster and simpler to do it myself.