Good questions selected for today’s post, Tom.   Thank you!

Two thoughts:

I take the T all the time down there, I pick up the commuter rail in Lowell or I take a bus down to South Station. Have my Charlie card and most of everything I need to do is usually a few blocks away from a T station, it is easy. Even with its problems currently the T is a quick solution in the city center.

When I lived in Boston, I lived *across the street* from a subway station. On a line that intersected all others within minutes, so getting anywhere was damn quick and simple, for a $79/mo all-you-can-eat pass.

Agreed 100%.

Ride-hailing and self-driving cars will only ease congestion once we start combining rides. Like the way buses, trams, light rail, and street cars do it.

That’s because majority of Uber and lyft drivers don’t know where they are going and are generally bad drivers. Two days ago I took and Uber in Boston and the guy didn’t know where Commonwealth Ave is and how to get onto it....from Chinatown. Uberx and lyft drivers are people who usually don’t drive in cities, but now…

Absolutely agreed. The dashcam driver was going pretty quickly in the HOV lane. so why did he feel the need to move over onto the emergency hard shoulder? Yes he might have hit the car that pulled out but he’d have more chance against a car than the biker did. I also wonder if the car driver saw the Dashcam car…

I agree. Much like waving people into traffic, he invited this accident by creating an unnatural opportunity for the rider.

Isn’t the guy in the car that filmed all this at fault, too? He left his lane and went onto the shoulder. Shoulders aren’t there for people to move onto to be nice to people on motorcycles. This created a space that the lane changer wouldn’t have expected to appear, through which the motorcyclist passed through at…

Probably because it would be really expensive for Ford to mate a manual to that motor for only one application that less than 5% of potential buyers will get.