Josh Fairchild
@hatchback31Commercial Real Estate Attorney pushing for better transit, development, and land use for people; @transitmatters co-founder, board member; #Roslindale
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The most important and environmentally regressive bus procurement the @MBTA does not want you to understand: we have the choice between new buses that produce either (a) ZERO emissions in Eastie, Chelsea and Everett; or (b) increase current emissions by 65%. T chooses (b)!
To meet new state housing law, Newton aims to make its villages a little taller - could add 10k units in 3% of land area mostly by adding a few floors in village commercial areas! bostonglobe.com/2023/06/05/bus…
Really needs to happen this time!—West Roxbury road plan would make Centre Street safer bostonglobe.com/2023/06/06/opi…
Regional Rail provides equitable, fast, & frequent alternatives to cars. A fully realized Regional Rail system would provide subway-equivalent service, with peak trains as frequent as every 5-7 min. 🚉⚡️ Read @transitmatters NEW REPORT: static1.squarespace.com/static/533b9a2…
Massachusetts needs a housing moon shot bostonglobe.com/2023/05/31/opi… via @BostonGlobe
I just royally pissed off the ice cream man by letting my 6yo daughter pay for her frozen treat with change counted out of the coin purse that she brought along solely in hopes of seeing an ice cream truck. He’s lucky I made her stick to quarters! But srsly $5 bomb pop!?
This news is a breath of fresh air! Hopefully many more stories like this will be coming: With high costs and little new housing, Lexington becomes first town to meet ambitious new zoning law - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2023/04/13/bus…
A hundred years of choking housing growth catches up with Massachusetts - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2023/04/10/opi…
Finally after so much hand wringing we’ve come to senses and decided that even -gasp- libraries can have housing over the ground floor. To bad this comes after my local branch was rehabbed as only a single story affair. bostonglobe.com/2023/04/06/bus…
Best part: “Due to its proximity to the MBTA Green, Red, and Orange lines, the project is not proposed to include any parking for cars or other vehicles, though bike parking is included.” bostonglobe.com/2023/04/04/bus…
A few thoughts on electric buses, and why conversion to electric is not as simple as it seems.
We should be able to fund and electrify the Providence Line and the Fairmount Line by the end of Gov Healey’s first term, but we won’t if the MBTA sticks to the current draft Capital Investment Plan (CIP). commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/the-di…
Here’s hoping MBTA chief Phillip Eng is where the buck stops, the empathy starts - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2023/03/27/opi…
NEW from @CommonWealthMag: @jarjoh of @transitmatters says Healey should pause MBTA GM search and let interim GM Jeff Gonneville push forward w/improvements, while urging her to replace Baker appointees to new T board, which he calls “unequivocal failure.” commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/pause-…
TransitMatters Executive Director Jarred Johnson tore into the MBTA Board of Directors, saying it was failing riders with the “hands-off approach” taken during a time of crisis for the agency. trib.al/tltZWsp
it would have been great for @jonchesto to talk to anyone outside of MassDOT for this article—he might have learned that SSX isn’t necessary for anything he talks about in the article and is a huge waste of $$$ bostonglobe.com/2023/03/17/bus…
An easy to follow play by play from @StreetsblogMASS on how stepped up oversight inspections and discovery of Red Line track defects prompted the system wide MBTA slowdown mass.streetsblog.org/2023/03/15/how…
To celebrate the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, we have a bonus Black transit leader profile: TransitMatters' very own Jarred Johnson!
As one of the few natives..if not only native...of Paris, TX who has also lived in the North End of Boston, I am probably the person best positioned on the Internet to explain it to Basel...so here I go 🧵
Finally finding some quiet time to read (and enjoy) Holy Spokes, a book by @RevEverett Thank you for the personal story, and the interwoven thoughts on and invitation to daily meditation within the rhythms of urban transit!
I also want to apologize for breaking our OTP (On Time Performance) yesterday. We had to delay some of our trains to give a way to #RailForceOne. It was painful for me and my team, but I had to do that. So only 90% of our trains arrived on time yesterday. I apologize.
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