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Hey, Beyonce, this is Boston and you're going to get stuck in traffic just like the rest of us
By adamg on Sat, 08/10/2013 - 11:49pm
Turns out Bey was in town for her boy Jay Z's duet with that other guy at Fenway tonight. Stanley Staco reports she got as snagged by post-concert traffic as everybody else in greater Kenmore:
FENWAY: Mult Boston Police CycleDiv units Setting up to move Jay Z + Beyonce outa Fenway Area, Lansdowne St now Gridlocked - Avoid Area.
FENWAY: Jay Z + Beyonce (code name PACKAGE) now being Rolled Out Lansdowne St under Boston Police Escort - Active Area
FENWAY *update* Package in Limo Stuck on Ipswich St, due to disabled motor vehicle ahead, Crowd is forming, BPD units working All Hands.
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Snore
zzzzzzzzzzz...........
Hope Boston is sending her a bill...
For the police escort. Why should the people of Boston keep playing for police to ride around the city with so called VIPs, from useless celebrities to heads of state visiting their kids at college.
If they can't provide their own security. They should be required to hire police details and pay the full freight.
Or, else Fenway should be billed since they made the money on this event. It should have zero cost to the taxpayers.
Of course they send her a
Of course they send her a bill. Police escorts are profitable for the city
They do!
Artists pay for police escorts. I don't know about foreign dignitaries, but musicians and movie stars who request police escorts do pay for them.
Who upvoted this?
Come on!
Why not bike?
It worked for her in Brooklyn.
Welcome to Boston!
See how under capacity our roads are and getting worse with lane removals and obstructions via "complete streets" - bulb outs, corner tightening, slip lane removals etc.
Nobody told them to get on a HubWay bike or the T instead of driving? Well, at least they were carpooling.
Markk you're confused
The problem is not that the roads are inadequate for the traffic volume, it's that the traffic volume is excessive for the roads. The solution lies in reducing traffic volume, not in increasing road capacity.
Get rid of people and jobs
Getting rid of people and jobs are far more effective than reducing traffic volume than bicycles and the like. That's what areas without traffic congestion have, fewer people and less economic activity. A poor option.
And, on the other hand,
places with uncontrolled growth and a car-centric approach to urban design wind up being hellholes like Dallas.
Growth is not the answer -- any economic system that is dependent on growth is not sustainable. If you look at various ratings of places to live, a number of highly rated places tend to be post-industrial cities that have retooled their economies. Pittsburgh, for example, has far fewer jobs and less economic activity than it did at its economic peak, but it is a far nicer place to live; people rate it quite highly and report a high quality of life.
A decline in population would not hurt Boston a bit. One only needs to look at the housing market to see that.
Don't you have an election to
Don't you have an election to lose somewhere?
Our ballot question won
Our ballot question won, which is where my efforts went. I spent zero effort on getting reelected myself with results similar to those doing no work in school. Mass Law is screwed up on getting a local non-binding ballot question. It took as many signatures in a town of 43,000 as for people getting on the ballot to replace Markey in a whole Congressional district.
Are all Fenway concerts that
Are all Fenway concerts that loud?
I was a mile away, and the music sounded like there was a loud party in a nearby building. I only realized what it was when I heard the cheering.