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World's skinniest elephant
By adamg
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 9:40am
Anorexic, even.
Oh, I get it
By anon
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:19am
You want all of us to get into cars, too?
Elephant, eh?
By Lee
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:34am
Can I blame that elephant for all the potholes?
Surely you have noticed that
By Kinopio
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:56am
Surely you have noticed that bikes are way smaller than cars? So a person moving their mode of commuting from a car to a bike saves a ton of space? Also, you realize bikes existed before cars?
Living on a busy street, I have also noticed...
By Lee
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 1:31pm
... that people on bikes don’t stink up my home with exhaust. I don’t even hear or feel them go by.
FTFY
By Neal
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 12:23pm
well no sh....
By TiminCharlestown
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 8:42am
Historically, your commuting choices were to drive yourself and sit in traffic, sit in a stinky cab and sit in traffic (which may not pick you up at 2AM if you're the wrong color or not going far enough for a lucrative fare and had not seen any innovation in half a century) or to take mass transit, which is both increasingly crowded (try getting on the 93 bus at Chelsea and Warren around 7:30AM) and increasingly unreliable (there's only so many times I can be late for work stuck in the orange line on the tunnel), or ride a bike, which has a limited demographic and calendar.
Introducing a new option that is car based increases traffic!
I would guess that the majority of uber/lyft users previously took mass transit, or take a ride sharing on some days instead of taking mass transit.
I need to get into the study business.
Uber and Lyft Should Not Be This Popular
By formerlyTheSoBo...
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 8:47am
but our leaders can't get public transportation to function properly.
I take Uber and Lyft everyday and I shouldn't be. I live close to 3 bus lines and would be more than happy to ride a bus but it takes 45 minutes for the bus to go three miles. that is insanity. On the weekends people have to wait 30 minutes for the bus to show up.
Install dedicated bus lanes and run them more often on the weekend.
The perfect example is the #9 bus. The bus carrying (40 people) has to take a lap around the Broadway T and then take a lap another lap (near Gillette) to get into the South End. That must add 15 minutes to the trip. Meanwhile, cars carrying 1 or 2 people have direct access to the T Stop and South End. Again, insanity and incompetence. A quick, easy solution that would go a long way is to shut down the block of West Broadway between A Street and Dotchester Ave to cars and only have Buses and Shuttles enter from 7:00am to 9:30am. Why can't our leaders fix this?
Because buses suck
By Scauma
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 9:29am
The only people who take buses are people who can't afford an alternate, i.e. better, means of transportation.
Yes I'm being a bit facetious but there's a lot of truth to that statement.
Also the answer to terrible bus service isn't to restrict cars.
Express Buses
By anon
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:20am
You know what those are?
Lots of people willingly take those every day.
So?
By Scauma
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 4:23pm
Express buses are the exception, not the rule.
Bus service is a terrible
By Kinopio
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:59am
Bus service is a terrible mainly because car drivers are causing traffic and slowing buses down. Buses reduce traffic. A bus with 40 people is 40 times more important than a car with 1 person, but yet our government treats them equally. That is ridiculous.
Not even equally
By Michael
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 11:08am
Buses have to continually pull over to let people on and off, and since our friendly local drivers would rather beat a puppy to death with another puppy than let them pull back onto the road in front of them, they have to wait for a huge gap between cars to get back on the road again. Don't some cities have laws* about yielding to buses?
*for the sake of this post, if not reality, the laws in this case are enforced as aggressively as those regarding texting, crosswalks and red lights
Wait, slow down...
By Scratchie
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 11:33am
MBTA Buses can pull over to the curb? I don't believe I've ever observed this phenomenon.
They sure as hell do on my route
By Michael
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 11:35am
And if not, I sure can't blame them
Could we kindly cease with the generalizations?
By whyaduck
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 11:52am
Most drivers are not puppy killers. Good. God.
No
By Scauma
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 4:25pm
Buses suck because they need to stop every two blocks. Carpools reduce traffic too. And no a bus is not more important just because it carries more people. You people who hate cars are getting old. And for the record, I say that as a non-car owner.
needs of the many
By blues_lead
Thu, 02/08/2018 - 9:08am
Why not? The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, right? And transportation is about moving people and goods, right? So why is the vehicle that carries 40+ more people not given priority over the one that carries 1?
I don't hate cars. I don't even hate drivers! I'm just trying to make the city more open to all, safer, and less polluting.
Buses
By anon
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 4:15pm
The majority of people can no longer afford apartments within walking distance to a subway stop (unless living with multiple roommates), so buses are much more mainstream these days. We put up with the suck because there's no other choice for most of us.
The 9 does that funny loop
By anon
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 9:55am
The 9 does that funny loop in order to provide an accessible path to the elevator location at Broadway. Uber and Lift drivers don't have to worry about accomodating everybody.
If there are curb ramps so
By anon
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 11:38am
If there are curb ramps so everyone can cross the street, why does the bus have to stop directly in front of the elevator?
So make the other side accessible.
By formerlyTheSoBo...
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 11:46am
That makes sense but the city could just make the other side accessible. a curb cut and a ramp would cost how much? A few hundred dollars?
You can even have cars with 3 more people enter the block to avoid the loop
Make the cars with 1 or 2 people do that funny loop
...and this is only during AM rush hour. 2 - 3 hours.
if anyone in the MBTA or the City is reading this put a trial together.
Boston should make all non
By anon
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 12:33pm
Boston should make all non express buses that don't run in a dedicated tunnel free. And run more buses.
I can't think of another way to reduce traffic other than getting people out of cars for short city trips. Well, other than congestion pricing, which Boston traffic essentially is because of how much of your time is eaten.
There's a human toll to this
By Scauma
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 9:26am
Earlier this week a livery driver shot himself in the head in front of the NY City Hall. He was having significant financial issues, a lot of which were attributed to Uber/Lyft. Apparently livery driver suicide is on the rise. And with the push to adopt driver-less cars, it'll only get worse.
So whats your point?
By anon
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 9:42am
So whats your point?
That we should be paying higher fares to prop up a failing industry?
Why not also use tax dollars to prop up the coal industry?
Trump is trying to prop up
By Kinopio
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 11:10am
Trump is trying to prop up the coal industry, largely because coal workers are almost 100% white.
Interesting
By capecoddah
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 3:17pm
Interesting racial statistic.
What is the racial makeup of those who commit armed robbery on working coal people?
Trump doesn't know anything
By Scauma
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 4:27pm
He supports coal because he doesn't know any better, nor does he care to learn anything. Coal jobs are going, or gone, and never coming back.
Point being
By Scauma
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 1:56pm
There are other, and perhaps more pressing issues, than traffic and congestion.
Love Lyft and Uber. Fuss all
By anon
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 2:38pm
Love Lyft and Uber. Fuss all you want!
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