In the end, I think we treat these agencies (public transit, mail, etc) too much like businesses and not like public services.

No one questions whether roads are making enough money because it's understood that they enable productivity in the areas they serve. Meanwhile we expect the T to pay for itself rather than act as a utility.

The service is getting people to their destination. If they stop taking the T and still need to get to work, they're going to use one of those other options. Probably driving.

You think the MBTA doesn't have competition in the form of private cars, ride share, bikes, walking, etc? The difference between the postal service and public transit in the US is that one (mostly) hasn't been systematically sabotaged for decades.

I'm on board with having something cool and funky (this or the Citgo sign) that make the skyline unique. It's unfortunate that ours happen to be free advertisements for oil companies though.

If you're driving from Cambridge to there, you deserve to be part of traffic.

They will be installing precast concrete curbs to separate the lanes, the city is just waiting on them to be delivered.

That being said, never underestimate the stupidity of car drivers.

In this case a law passed by a supermajority of city council and public support

Actually no. The cycling safety ordinance requires protected bike lanes to be installed on Garden.

Nothing a few strategically placed pieces of C4 can't solve.

Don't worry, if we just add a few more lanes by demolishing the remaining places people want to go to, we'll have solved traffic!