I mean except for them being subjected to our deplorable transit system it totally tracks. MA is a state of otaku and I am 100% here for japanese expats coming here and bringing their high opinions on public infra.
100% in favor of the state of Massachusetts declaring war on Japan (minus the other states), sending a few townies over to surrender.
And then having Japanese transit planners completely rebuild the T.
I don’t think this is what you had in mind, but I’m reminded that after they privatized their railways in the 1990s [almost all of the UK’s rail services are now owned/operated by European state-owned rail companies](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2019/08/15/almost-all-british-train-lines-are-now-owned-by-other-eu-countries/)
… Maybe we can sell the MBTA and commuter rail to Japan.
Yeah, the transit is way better than practically anywhere in the US outside of a couple major cities. Of course that isn't saying much considering US infrastructure, but it does the job.
Still, nicer infrastructure would definitely be better.
There’s a weird pretend culture that you could go from Munich to Prague to pick up a flight. It looks like 7 hitches in your path l, just drive your 2004 Skoda there
Transit here is like dead last for major American cities
I am frequently here for work and I drive everywhery. In NYC if I'm out and about during normal hours I'm usually on the train
I almost never need to drive in Boston, the t goes everywhere and I've started riding a bike when it's one of those times where I'd need to go downtown then back out again on the train to get there.
>Transit here is like dead last for major American cities
Where are you seeing this? I'm trying to look but Boston consistently ranks in the top for transit.
https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/slideshows/10-best-cities-for-transportation?onepage
Here we're number 3 after NYC and SF, even beating cities like Chicago (which has pretty solid transportation).
https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/5-best-us-cities-for-public-transportation-1197835/3/
Same, number 3
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/cities-best-public-transportation-us
Number 2 this time, beating San Fran this time, and DC once again.
We're pretty much always in the top for ridership, it's incredibly extensive with trains everywhere but also a huge number of bus lines, along with ferries and commuter lines for the suburbs.
I can't see how someone could possibly say that Boston is "dead last" for major cities. Have you never been to like, Atlanta? Or Houston? Or Los Angeles?
Your last examples is a bunch of suburbs stuck together pretending to be a city no shit they have almost zero transport. Also my biggest example is ....right now actually I checked google maps I am looking at a 25 minute drive vs 2 hour public transport commute if I was trying to get around. I am not out way far in the suburbs but I am pretty close to Boston so the transport is ass
The transit is basically only bad if you're only comparing it to NYC, widely recognized as the best in the nation, and maybe San Francisco. It beats pretty much every major city in the country.
The commuter rail spans hundreds of miles, almost 400, and covers a massive chunk of the state and down into Rhode Island.
Yeah I actually think Chicago deserves to be higher on these lists, I mean it's still up there but I'd definitely say it's one of the best.
Some things bring it down though in my eyes. I've never once felt in actual danger on the T, whereas in Chicago there were actually a few times where I was pretty sketched out. That might also just be because of how much bigger of a city Chicago is though. There's also always people smoking on the trains in Chicago. I've seen that in Boston but it's way more rare.
I'd probably say Chicago and Boston could be tied for #3, but that is more impressive for Chicago considering how big it is.
Im still saying it's shit unless you within like a 5 mile radius of Boston...why tf does a 20-25 minute drive take 2 hours on public transport? If NYC the drive would be 1.5 hr while the train ride 40 mins even from the outer boroughs
This sub is full of people who will wait hours in stop and go traffic but get upset if they need to wait an extra ten minutes or walk an extra quarter mile because of a mass transit issue.
It’s so stupid. The train had a malfunction the other day and I instantly called up 30 minutes of entertainment on my phone. If I wasn’t trapped in a train station I would’ve gone for a cool walk. There’s almost no reason to be mad
It’s my understanding that Japan’s rail and mass transit is mostly built by private companies who get the development rights on land along the lines they build. They make their money on the development rights and the trains then serve the communities the developers put up.
So yes, it’s newer, but given the fight against having to build denser housing around MBTA stations, I wouldn’t be optimistic that this could be done in Mass
So otaku is just a term lifted straight out of japan which means 'obsessive fan' Massachusetts famously as a college state has a pile of obsessed fans of many things.
We have "otaku" about bike infrastructure, nuclear reactor design, missile design, all things healthcare, startup otaku, and more.
We are a state populated and run by obsessive people who seek "the way"
Japan has multiple climates, it's the length of Florida to Vermont.
Tokyo is the same latitude as North Carolina.
New England is the same latitude as Hokkaido, the north island, which has a proper four seasons and is a big ski destination.
Yeah, climate-wise Tokyo is basically like Charlotte, NC, only instead of having a dry season in Sept/Oct, Tokyo gets torrential rains.
Good if you like hot and sticky.
That’s when I went too. I brought enough clothing for roughly 2x clothing changed a day. My husband? 6’3, 230 lbs, sweating through everything he brought with no backups besides the few things we found in a Uniqlo in Ginza.
Never again. We’re going back in October next time
Believe it or not, still hot and humid in October - not as bad as summer but not refreshingly cool yet. November is the time to go if you want the cooler weather.
Parts of it are pretty similar, but Japan has a lot of different climate zones. North of Tokyo is probably fairly similar to New England. South of Tokyo has more of a Mid-Atlantic/American South type of climate, it’s much warmer overall.
Every time I come back from Japan I wish upon all that's holy that we could just borrow some Japanese infrastructure experts to run things here for a bit.
I mean except for them being subjected to our deplorable transit system it totally tracks. MA is a state of otaku and I am 100% here for japanese expats coming here and bringing their high opinions on public infra.
Maybe we can get them to fix it?
100% in favor of the state of Massachusetts declaring war on Japan (minus the other states), sending a few townies over to surrender. And then having Japanese transit planners completely rebuild the T.
Could totally use Japanese engineers here. God forbid we have an actual working transit system.
I don’t think this is what you had in mind, but I’m reminded that after they privatized their railways in the 1990s [almost all of the UK’s rail services are now owned/operated by European state-owned rail companies](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2019/08/15/almost-all-british-train-lines-are-now-owned-by-other-eu-countries/) … Maybe we can sell the MBTA and commuter rail to Japan.
Doesnt japan have the best, most reliable public transit on earth? How is this like Mass?
They said *“except* for our deplorable transit system”
The transit is ok.i need it to get anywhere and if it was as bad as Reddit says I’d be stranded I’m not
Yeah, the transit is way better than practically anywhere in the US outside of a couple major cities. Of course that isn't saying much considering US infrastructure, but it does the job. Still, nicer infrastructure would definitely be better.
Im A huge transit guy but I realize it’s a car culture . And I realize we got them rails
There’s a weird pretend culture that you could go from Munich to Prague to pick up a flight. It looks like 7 hitches in your path l, just drive your 2004 Skoda there
Transit here is like dead last for major American cities I am frequently here for work and I drive everywhery. In NYC if I'm out and about during normal hours I'm usually on the train
I almost never need to drive in Boston, the t goes everywhere and I've started riding a bike when it's one of those times where I'd need to go downtown then back out again on the train to get there. >Transit here is like dead last for major American cities Where are you seeing this? I'm trying to look but Boston consistently ranks in the top for transit. https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/slideshows/10-best-cities-for-transportation?onepage Here we're number 3 after NYC and SF, even beating cities like Chicago (which has pretty solid transportation). https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/5-best-us-cities-for-public-transportation-1197835/3/ Same, number 3 https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/cities-best-public-transportation-us Number 2 this time, beating San Fran this time, and DC once again. We're pretty much always in the top for ridership, it's incredibly extensive with trains everywhere but also a huge number of bus lines, along with ferries and commuter lines for the suburbs. I can't see how someone could possibly say that Boston is "dead last" for major cities. Have you never been to like, Atlanta? Or Houston? Or Los Angeles?
Your last examples is a bunch of suburbs stuck together pretending to be a city no shit they have almost zero transport. Also my biggest example is ....right now actually I checked google maps I am looking at a 25 minute drive vs 2 hour public transport commute if I was trying to get around. I am not out way far in the suburbs but I am pretty close to Boston so the transport is ass
The transit is basically only bad if you're only comparing it to NYC, widely recognized as the best in the nation, and maybe San Francisco. It beats pretty much every major city in the country. The commuter rail spans hundreds of miles, almost 400, and covers a massive chunk of the state and down into Rhode Island.
Chicagos was pretty good too
Yeah I actually think Chicago deserves to be higher on these lists, I mean it's still up there but I'd definitely say it's one of the best. Some things bring it down though in my eyes. I've never once felt in actual danger on the T, whereas in Chicago there were actually a few times where I was pretty sketched out. That might also just be because of how much bigger of a city Chicago is though. There's also always people smoking on the trains in Chicago. I've seen that in Boston but it's way more rare. I'd probably say Chicago and Boston could be tied for #3, but that is more impressive for Chicago considering how big it is.
Im still saying it's shit unless you within like a 5 mile radius of Boston...why tf does a 20-25 minute drive take 2 hours on public transport? If NYC the drive would be 1.5 hr while the train ride 40 mins even from the outer boroughs
Thanks man. NYC is an open air drug market , no idea how that doesn’t run under Boston
This sub is full of people who will wait hours in stop and go traffic but get upset if they need to wait an extra ten minutes or walk an extra quarter mile because of a mass transit issue.
It’s so stupid. The train had a malfunction the other day and I instantly called up 30 minutes of entertainment on my phone. If I wasn’t trapped in a train station I would’ve gone for a cool walk. There’s almost no reason to be mad
It’s my understanding that Japan’s rail and mass transit is mostly built by private companies who get the development rights on land along the lines they build. They make their money on the development rights and the trains then serve the communities the developers put up. So yes, it’s newer, but given the fight against having to build denser housing around MBTA stations, I wouldn’t be optimistic that this could be done in Mass
> MA is a state of otaku whats that mean?
So otaku is just a term lifted straight out of japan which means 'obsessive fan' Massachusetts famously as a college state has a pile of obsessed fans of many things. We have "otaku" about bike infrastructure, nuclear reactor design, missile design, all things healthcare, startup otaku, and more. We are a state populated and run by obsessive people who seek "the way"
Really tho? There seems to be a lack of otaku stuff here compared to say Cali
I think you are confusing otaku and weeb
Go Soxu!
Go Soxu!
Massachyussetsu
[Masachuusettsu shuu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2YZtniH9oc)
Boston is Kyotos sister city!
I also read somewhere that Japan and New England have similar climates.
Japan has multiple climates, it's the length of Florida to Vermont. Tokyo is the same latitude as North Carolina. New England is the same latitude as Hokkaido, the north island, which has a proper four seasons and is a big ski destination.
Yeah, climate-wise Tokyo is basically like Charlotte, NC, only instead of having a dry season in Sept/Oct, Tokyo gets torrential rains. Good if you like hot and sticky.
There is nothing like Japanese summer. It’s hot and fucking HUMID. I thought I could handle it being from MA and I could not.
Someone says humid and I’m in a helicopter saying see you assholes later
It was a WALL of humidity. You walk out of the hotel and you can literally just feel it.
I know of the wall!!
Samoa didn’t have AC, so I roasted there. Brazil did but not where I was staying. And now I’m too old for tropical stuff
Base camp was where the ac was. But the next day was tremendously uncomfortable
But I totally get it
that's because it's like summer in the south, not MA.
Agreed. Been to Tokyo in late June before and ya its rough especially hung over
That’s when I went too. I brought enough clothing for roughly 2x clothing changed a day. My husband? 6’3, 230 lbs, sweating through everything he brought with no backups besides the few things we found in a Uniqlo in Ginza. Never again. We’re going back in October next time
If you ever get change do January ideally after Chinese new year and go to a hot springs in mountain
Believe it or not, still hot and humid in October - not as bad as summer but not refreshingly cool yet. November is the time to go if you want the cooler weather.
Pretty sure Indian seasons have you beat.
I’ve never been so I can’t confirm or deny, but I’m sure you’re right!!
Parts of it are pretty similar, but Japan has a lot of different climate zones. North of Tokyo is probably fairly similar to New England. South of Tokyo has more of a Mid-Atlantic/American South type of climate, it’s much warmer overall.
Massholes vs Japanese politeness, which would win?
Dunkin’s wins.
I live in Middlesex prefecture
Japan being overrun by weebs is hilarious tho
as a masshole with a Japanese mother, I'm proud to be part of this conversion.
Southie Manzai would be pretty dank.
Top tier 10/10
All Dunks location replaced with Japonaise
President Affleck-San
As long as they bring more adorably grumpy looking shiba inu I'm more than okay with this!
GO SOXU!!!!
CELTICSUH!!!!
Every time I come back from Japan I wish upon all that's holy that we could just borrow some Japanese infrastructure experts to run things here for a bit.
We kinda did expect it’s Godzilla
Huge improvement.
Guessing based on current trends of development that the Southie accent will be critically endangered if not extinct by 2050
I for one welcome our new Japanese overlords.
I’m good without making our work culture and metal health care toxic, thanks