If price is your highest priority, it'll be hard to beat La Quinta in Assembly Row unless you go way farther out. Or you could spend another $50 to be in a more interesting neighborhood.

Gotta be Townline Plaza, where Donut Villa is. Bad news for Super 88 and New Wei Feng Market.

Chicago is also 4x the population of Boston. Still quadruple the murder rate, but not 16x.

New moon today, so it's a spring tide. These days anytime there's rain during a spring tide that area will see some flooding. It's always been a flood risk, but has gotten much worse in the last decade.

Source: worked in a basement around there. Major flooding used to be an every other year thing, by the time I left it was 3-4 times a year.

Depends on where you go. Massachusetts's overall wealth means that tax revenues are higher than most states, which helps a lot. Our suburbs are older, sure, but whether a town was built in 1780 or 1880 isn't going to have a big impact on modern infrastructure. I don't know where you went in Georgia, but most suburbs in the South don't have sidewalks at all outside commercial areas.

I don't mind asphalt sidewalks as long as they're maintained, and on sidewalks asphalt can last a surprisingly long time as long as the trees don't get to it.

I don't think this is broadly true in Massachusetts, but it is true in many states, largely due to the fact that suburbs are a ponzi scheme.

Why are people in this thread talking like wealthier areas are more likely to vote no? Middlesex county voted yes (2nd in per capita income), and Bristol county voted no (2nd to last in per capita income).

Lots of people vote according to their politics, not their self interest.

No problem, I was just trying for brevity, but are you really disputing that cars fail to yield to pedestrians at crosswalks? Have you been outside?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001457598000268?via%3Dihub

springfieldmo.gov/4921/Crosswalk-Compliance-Studies

There are a large number of drivers who would never blatantly run a red light, but who routinely fail to yield to pedestrians. Drivers legally have to stop for pedestrians at all crosswalks, but how often does that happen? Studies show less than half the time.

Banning right on red turns "failing to yield" into "running a red light". That's why it makes people safer.

1. Drivers turning right during the leading pedestrian interval. LPI is far less effective at increasing safety where right on red is allowed.
2. Pedestrian scrambles/all walk phases, as mentioned.
3. Drivers failing to yield to pedestrians who are crossing the right turn lane.

I'd stick with Central/South American coffees if you like a more traditional coffee flavor (ie not super fruity). If the regular roasts are too acidic for you, give their espresso roasts a try. They're going to be much lighter than anything labeled espresso in a grocery store. Same goes for George Howell.

Grace Note has a location near South Station.

It's a city built exclusively for cars that has reached a population density at which it is no longer physically possible for people to drive everywhere. If you widen the roads you're just going to encourage more people to drive and make the city more unpleasant to be in. Quincy has a big advantage being on the red line, but has really dropped the ball by not providing anything close to adequate bus service or pedestrian/bike infrastructure.

Labor cost is hard to say, because it varies based on region and I don't know the going rate in your region of Italy. Materials cost looks high but the images are cut off.

It takes time and more bikes using the paths. Pedestrian adherence on Western Ave in Cambridge is way better now than when the path went in.

What is the evidence for this? In principle I understand the argument, but in the real world, where have property tax increases in the 5-10% range been definitively linked to home value decreases? Furthermore, what are the severe effects of small decreases in home value?

I don't understand the argument that "house rich" people with lower incomes need the help. Do home equity loans not exist?

5/7 of those are towns, not cities.

Portland, Maine is not really a model Springfield can follow. Portland's revival was all based on its proximity to the ocean, which allowed it to develop into a tourist destination with one of the best restaurant scenes in the country.