Because it's Massachusetts -- not California (or Europe for that matter). We're more allergic to taxes than many would like to believe (though less than almost all of the US).
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Healey is the best Massachusetts has done on transit since ... checks notes ... Mike Dukakis, whose specialty was TOD. The T is going to be open longer at night, and that's not nothing.
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I mean, the competition on transit is Baker (ugh), Patrick (no), Romney (no), and... Weld (even more no)? But Patrick wasn't prioritizing tax cuts, at least.
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Patrick forfeited $750M of federal funds for Red-Blue Connector; Healey at least didn't do that. Advantage Healey. But I didn't vote for either Patrick (only 2010 as I wasn't living in Mass. in 2006) or Healey because of their grand transportation plans. Neither did most Massachusetts voters.
aug 29, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view