When did Shirley Leung get on the Globe editorial board? The Editorial We at our Paper of Record wakes up from a long slumber and sighs and tut-tuts today that we lost the Olympics, but says it's not too late for us to learn from our stupid, pitiful yahoo mistake in turning our noses up at the Opportunity of a Lifetime:
The challenge now for Boston is to rekindle and redirect the civic energy that the Olympics bid unleashed. Sure, Boston 2024 stirred up discord. But the Olympics bid foundered prematurely, subsumed by early PR mistakes that allowed NIMBYism to take root. Yet the effort also touched off a much-needed civic dialogue about the city’s built environment and its transportation infrastructure.
Yes, because before the Olympics, we never once considered what a soulless collection of squat glass towers the Seaport is becoming or pondered just how bad our transportation infrastructure is. And we certainly didn't have anybody thinking about ways to make the city better.
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"No Boston Olympics" book
By anon
Wed, 08/02/2017 - 7:35pm
I strongly suggest the book "No Boston Olympics: How And Why Smart Cities Are Passing On The Torch" by Chris Dempsey and Andrew Zimablist. It clearly points out what an absurd farce this entire Boston 2024 thing was. It's a good read and holds the interest. And no, I'm a shill for the book. I took it out of the library. I had to wait on a list for it, so I guess a lot of people are interested.
Shirley Leung: not always wrong
By Ron Newman
Thu, 08/03/2017 - 2:09am
I very much like her most recent column, calling for a public park on a now-unused Seaport District pier.
Insert comment about stopped clocks here
By CraigInDaVille
Thu, 08/03/2017 - 8:56am
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When did the Globe get like this?
By anon
Thu, 08/03/2017 - 9:38am
I avidly read the Globe in the 70s, 80s and beyond. The quality of journalism was much higher than it is now. When did they start hiring out of touch writers in a bubble like Shirley Leung and the like? It's been a long, slow decline.
Even if and when the MBTA does get fixed first,
By mplo
Fri, 08/04/2017 - 5:20pm
it's still not a good idea to have the Olympics come here to Boston. Boston is way too congested, and it's public transportation system is already overtaxed, at least in part because the politicians in the state, namely the governors, have never, never gotten around to fixing the problem.
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